 | Jonathan Swift - Authors, Irish - 1885 - 322 pages
...four hours we went twentysix miles. Mr. secretary was a perfect country gentleman at Buckleberry ; he smoked tobacco with one or two neighbours; he inquired...house is in the midst of near three thousand pounds a-year he had by his lady, who is descended from Jack of Newbury, of whom books and ballads are written... | |
 | Arthur Hassall - Great Britain - 1889 - 272 pages
...the summer of 1711 to Bucklersbury, and how Mr. Secretary was a perfect country gentleman there. " He smoked tobacco with one or two neighbours, he inquired...went to visit his hounds, and knew all their names." A considerable part of these years he spent at Peterborough's house at Parson's Green, Fulham, which... | |
 | Gerald Patrick Moriarty - Literary Criticism - 1893 - 388 pages
...four hours we went twenty-six miles. Mr. Secretary was a perfect country gentleman at Buckleberry; he smoked tobacco with one or two neighbours ; he...year he had by his lady, who is descended from Jack of Newbury, of whom books and ballads are written ; and there is an old picture of him in the house.... | |
 | England - 1898 - 694 pages
...perfect country gentleman at Bucklebury. He smoked tobacco with one or two neighbours. He enquired after the wheat in such a field. He went to visit...fashion. His house is in the midst of near three thousand acres he had by his lady, who is descended from Jack of Newbury, of whom ballads are written, and there... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1901 - 710 pages
...four hours we went twenty-six miles. Mr. Secretary was a perfect country gentleman at Bucklebury : he smoked tobacco with one or two neighbours ; he...of near three thousand pounds a year he had by his lady,1 who is descended from Jack Newbury, of whom books and ballads are written ; and there is an... | |
 | Walter Sichel - 1901 - 582 pages
...before and after his brilliant mission to France. It may be interesting to recall Swift's account. " Mr. Secretary was a perfect country gentleman at Huckleberry...his lady saw me to my chamber just in the country fashion."3 We shall find him ruralising in the same way some fifteen years later at Dawley. Bucklebury... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - Great Britain - 1901 - 384 pages
...which he paid him in 1711, observes: "Mr. Secretary was a perfect country gentleman at Bucklebury: he smoked tobacco with one or two neighbours ; he...saw me to my chamber just in the country fashion." From the period that Walpole was driven from power, Bolingbroke ceased to distinguish himself as a... | |
 | Walter Sichel - Great Britain - 1901 - 584 pages
...interesting to recall Swift's account. " Mr. Secretary was a perfect country gentleman at Buckleberry ; he smoked tobacco with one or two neighbours ; he...his lady saw me to my chamber just in the country fashion."3 We shall find him ruralising in the same way some fifteen years later at Dawley. Bucklebury... | |
 | Charles Whibley - Politicians - 1923 - 312 pages
...Bucklebury ; he inquired after the wheat in such a field ; he smoked tobacco with one or two neighbours ; he went to visit his hounds, and knew all their names...saw me to my chamber just in the country fashion.' And then comes Voltaire, with the jest he is determined not to lose. ' Seven thousand guineas a year,... | |
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Mr. Secretary was a perfect country gentleman at Buckleberry ; he smoked tobacco with one or two neighbours ; he inquired after the wheat in- such a field ; he went to visit his hounds, and knew all their names ; he and his lady saw me to my chamber just... 
