 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1824 - 512 pages
...write an answer to it ? It is a present, said he, or rather a legacy, from my old friend, the Bishop of Rochester. I went to take my leave of him yesterday in the Tower, where I saw this Bible upon bis table. After the first compliments, the bishop said to me, " My friend Pope, considering your infirmities,... | |
 | Edinburgh encyclopaedia - 1830 - 830 pages
...write an answer tu it ? It is a nre=ent, said he, or rather a legacy, from my old friend the bishop of Rochester. I went to take my leave of him yesterday in the Tower, where 1 saw this Bible upon his table. After the first compliments, the bishop said to me, My friend Pope,... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - Conduct of life - 1847 - 574 pages
...a legacy, from my old friend the Bishop " of Kochester. I went to take my leave of him yester" day in the Tower, where I saw this Bible upon his " table....infirmities, " ' and my age and exile, it is not likely we should ever " ' meet again, and therefore I give you this legacy to " ' remember me by. Take it... | |
 | Robert Carruthers - Poets, English - 1857 - 554 pages
...an answer to it. ' It is a present,' said he, ' or, rather, a legacy from my old friend the Bishop of Rochester. I went to take my leave of him yesterday in the Tower, when I saw this Bible upon the table. The Bishop said to me, " My friend Pope, considering your infirmities... | |
 | Robert Carruthers - Poets, English - 1857 - 578 pages
...it. ' It is a present,' said he, ' or, rather, a legacy from my old friend the Bishop of Bochester. I went to take my leave of him yesterday In the Tower, when I saw this Bible upon the table. The Bishop said to me, " My friend Pope, considering your infirmities... | |
 | Great Britain - 1859 - 198 pages
...write an Answer to it? ' It is a present, (said he,) or rather a legacy, from my old friend the Bishop of Rochester. I went to take my leave of him yesterday...ever meet again; and therefore I give you this legacy a to remember me by it.' " — ( Maty's Memoirs of the Earl of Chesterfield, prefixed to the Miscellaneous... | |
 | Philobiblion - 1862 - 552 pages
...Bible upon his table. After .the firft compliments, the Biihop faid to me, My friend Pope, confidering your infirmities, and my age and exile, it is not likely that we ihould ever meet again ; and therefore I give you this legacy to remember me by it. — Does your lordfhip... | |
 | Bibliography - 1862 - 396 pages
...upon his table. After the firft compliments, the Bifhop faid flfye to me, My friend Pope, confidering your infirmities, and my age and exile, it is not likely that we ihould ever meet again ; and therefore I give you this legacy to remember me by it. — Does your lordfhip... | |
 | Edward Vaughan Kenealy - 1869 - 320 pages
...write an answer to it? ' It is a present,' said he, ' or rather a legacy, from my old friend the Bishop of Rochester. I went to take my leave of him yesterday in the Tower, when I saw this Bible upon the table. The Bishop said to me, " My friend Pope, considering your infirmities... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - Conduct of life - 1891 - 302 pages
...in 1722 was sent to the Tower on a charge of treasonable correspondence with the Pretender. 196 197 take my leave of him yesterday in the Tower, where...infirmities, and my age and exile, it is not likely we should ever meet again, and therefore I give you this legacy to remember me by. Take it home with... | |
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My friend " ' Pope, considering your infirmities, and my age and " ' exile, it is not likely we should ever meet again, " ' and therefore I give you this legacy to remember " ' me by. Take it home with yo.u, and let me advise " 
