 | Edward Gibbon - Historians - 1896
...settled at my house for the remainder of the day. I have eat and drank, and conversed and sat up all night with Fox in England ; but it never has happened,...that I should enjoy him as I did that day, alone,* for his fair Companion was a cypher,* from ten in the morning till ten at night. Poor Deyverdnn, before... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Historians - 1900 - 360 pages
...LAUSANNE (p. 22S). Gibbon wrote on Oct. 4, 1788 : " I have eat, and drank, and conversed, and sat up all night with Fox in England ; but it never has happened,...alone, from ten in the morning till ten at night. We had little politics ; though he gave me in a few words such a character of Pitt as one great man... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - American literature - 1910
...Letter, Dec.; A Lady of the Last Century, p. 346. I have eat, and drank, and conversed, and sat up all eous Essays. The poet, we cannot but We had little politics; though he gave me in a few words such a character of Pitt as one great man... | |
 | 1800
...settled at my house for the remainder of the day. I have eat, and drank, and sat up, and conversed with Fox in England ; but it never has happened, perhaps...at night. Our conversation never flagged a moment ; ^nd he seemed thoroughly'pleased with the place and with his company. We had little politics: though... | |
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I have eat and drank, and conversed, and sat up all night, with Fox in England ; but it never has happened, perhaps it never can happen again, that I should enjoy him as I did that day, alone, from ten in the morning till ten at night. 
