 | Titus Munson Coan - 1883 - عدد الصفحات: 324
...1705, and he sent a copy to Swift with these words written upon the fly-leaf : " To Dr. Jonathan Swift, the most Agreeable Companion, the Truest Friend, and the Greatest Genius of his Age, this Book is Presented by his most Humble Servant, the Author." So that even thus early Swift's... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1883 - عدد الصفحات: 530
...copy of Addison's travels, presented by him to our author, is inscribed " To Doctor Jonathan Swift, the most agreeable companion, the truest friend, and the greatest genius of his age, this book is presented by his most humble servant, the author."f Nor was Swift backward in... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1883 - عدد الصفحات: 668
...&c.— Journal to Stella. Addison inscribed a presentation copy of his Travels " To Dr. Jonathan Swift, the most agreeable companion, the truest friend, and the greatest genius of his age." — (ScoTT. From the information of Mr. Theophilus Swift.) " Mr. Addison, who goes over first... | |
 | Dictionary - 1883 - عدد الصفحات: 626
...whom he presented (1705) a copy of his Italian travels (now in the Forster Library) inscribed ' to the most agreeable companion, the truest friend, and the greatest genius of his age.' Steele was his most ardent admirer. Less famous men, especially Tickell, Ambrose Philips,... | |
 | Samuel Andrews (M.A.) - 1884 - عدد الصفحات: 312
...of his own beautiful writings, inscribed on the blank leaf of the book : ' To Doctor Jonathan Swift, the most agreeable companion, the truest friend, and the greatest genius of the age.' This in Addison's circle was not regarded as flattery, but a just expression of truth. And when we... | |
 | Charles Edward Bolton - 1884 - عدد الصفحات: 414
...most unhappy man on earth, " "an immense genius, an awful downfall, and ruin." Addison spoke of him as "the most agreeable companion, the truest friend, and the greatest genius of his age." His first Satire, "The Tale of a Tub," a hit at both Presbyterians and Papists, made his... | |
 | William John Courthope - 1884 - عدد الصفحات: 202
...warm. He presented Swift with a copy of his Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, inscribing it — " To the most agreeable companion, the truest friend, and the greatest genius of his age." This friendship, founded on mutual respect, was desitined to be impaired by political differences.... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Rufus Edmonds Shapley - 1884 - عدد الصفحات: 458
...beyond any man, the purity, the extent, the precision, of the English language." Addison called Swift " the most agreeable companion, the truest friend, and the greatest genius of his age." Pope ranks him as "a great master of humor." Macaulay characterizes him as " the ablest man... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Rufus Edmonds Shapley - 1884 - عدد الصفحات: 460
...beyond any man, the purity, the extent, the precision, of the English language." Addison called Swift " the most agreeable companion, the truest friend, and the greatest genius of his age." Pope ranks him as "a great master of humor." Macaulay characterizes him as " the ablest man... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1885 - عدد الصفحات: 572
...— Journal to Stella. Addison incribed a presentation copy of his Travels " To Dr. Jonathan Swift, the most agreeable companion, the truest friend, and the greatest genius of his age." — (Scott. From the information of Mr. Theophilus Swift.) "Mr. Addison, who goes over first... | |
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To Dr. Jonathan Swift, the most agreeable companion, the truest friend, and the greatest genius of his age. 
