 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 530 pages
...resident atthe court of France, this nobleman pays him the following compliment : " For God's sake, Matt, hide the nakedness of thy country, and give the best...much better politicians than the French are poets." — " It is near three o'clock in the morning. I have been hard at work all day, and am not yet enough... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 504 pages
...queen's orders, the court of France had beendisgusted ; and Bolingbroke says in his Letter, " Dear Mat, hide the nakedness " of thy country, and give the...much better politicians " than the French are poets." Soon after, the Duke of Shrewsbury went on a formal embassy to Paris. It is related by Boyer, that... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 466 pages
...court; and he accordingly writes, ' Dear Mat, hide the nakedness of thy country, and give the best turu thy fertile brain will furnish thee with to the blunders...countrymen, who are not much better politicians than the French•are poets.' The duke of Shrewsbury was. soon after, sent on a formal embassy to France, and,... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 448 pages
...Mat, hide the nakedness of thy counti'y, and give the best turn thy fertile brain will furnish thec with to the blunders of thy countrymen, who are not...better politicians than the French are poets.' The duke of Shrewsbury was, soon after, sent on a formal embassy to France ; and, refusing to be associated... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 430 pages
...Queen's orders, the court of France had been disgusted ; and Bolingbroke says in his Letter, " Dear Mat, hide the nakedness of thy country, and give the best...much better politicians than the French are poets." Soon after, the Duke of Shrewsbury went on a formal embassy to Paris. It is related by Boyer, that... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 426 pages
...queen's orders, the court of France had been disgusted ; and Bolingbroke says in his letter, " Dear Mat, hide the nakedness of thy " country, and give the...brain will " furnish thee with to the blunders of thy country" men, who are not mueh better politicians than the :" French are poets." Soon after, the Duke... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 416 pages
...queen's orders, the court of France had been disgusted ; and Bolingbroke says in his letter, " Dear Mat, hide the nakedness of thy " country, and give the...brain will " furnish thee with to the blunders of thy couutry" men, who are not much better politicians than the " French are poets." Soon after, the Duke... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 310 pages
...queen's orders, the court of France had been disgusted ; and Bolingbroke says in his Letter, " Dear Mat, hide the nakedness of thy country, and give the best...much better politicians than the French are poets." Soon after, the Duke of Shrewsbury went on a formal embassy to Paris. It is related by Boyer, that... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 312 pages
...queen's orders, the court of France had been disgusted ; and Bolingbroke says in his Letter, " Dear Mat, hide the nakedness of thy country, and give the best...furnish thee with to the blunders of thy countrymen, who arc not much better politicians than the French are poets." Soon after, the Duke of Shrewsbury went... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 452 pages
...Queen's orders, the court of France had been disgusted ; and Bolingbroke says in his Letter, " Dear Mat, hide the nakedness of thy country, and give the best...much better politicians than the French are poets." Soon after, the Duke of Shrewsbury went on a formal embassy to Paris. It is related by Boyer, that... | |
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Mat, hide the nakedness of thy country, and give the best turn thy fertile brain will furnish thee with to the blunders of thy countrymen, who are not much better politicians than the French are poets.'* Soon after, the duke of Shrewsbury went on a formal... 
