 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1902 - 362 pages
..." The Tories carry it 15 among the new members six to one. Mr. Addison's election has passed easily and undisputed; and I believe if he had a mind to be king he would hardly be refused." 95. The good will with which the Tories re20 garded Addison is the... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1904 - 206 pages
...remarkable words : " The Tories carry it among the new members six to one. Mr. Addison's election has 20 passed easy and undisputed ; and I believe if he had a mind to be king, he would hardly be refused." The good will with which the Tories regarded Addison is the more... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1906 - 410 pages
...was so beloved. When the Whigs went down in disastrous defeat, Addison was returned to Parliament. " I believe if he had a mind to be chosen king he would hardly be refused " writes Swift.2 Mrs. Manjy, whose pen was dipped in gall, can only urge against Addison that he has... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1907 - 566 pages
...very dull state, only inquiring every day after new elections, where the Tories carry it among the new members six to one. Mr. Addison's election has passed...mind to be chosen king, he would hardly be refused '-1 Yet Addison was a Whig. Addison had not then had his disputes with Pope and others ; and his intercourse,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1908 - 582 pages
...very dull state, only inquiring every day after new elections, where the Tories carry it among the new members six to one. Mr. Addison's election has passed...mind to be chosen king he would hardly be refused. An odd accident has happened at Colchester: one Captain Lavallin coming from Flanders or Spain, found... | |
 | Prosser Hall Frye - 1908 - 334 pages
...successful Addison, who seems to have caught the trick of getting on in the world as Swift had missed it. "I believe if he had a mind to be chosen King he could hardly be refused," wrote the latter in witness of his popularity; while he himself, on his return... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1910 - 220 pages
...quitting the Whigs, wrote to Stella in these remarkable words: " The Tories carry it among the new members six to one. Mr. Addison's election has passed...and undisputed; and I believe if he had a mind to be king, he would hardly be refused." The good-will with which the Tories regarded Addison is the more... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1913 - 824 pages
...quitting the Whigs, wrote to Stella in these remarkable words : ' The Tories carry it among the new members six to one. Mr. Addison's election has passed...undisputed ; and I believe if he had a mind to be king, he would hardly be refused.' The good-will with which the Tories regarded Addison is the more... | |
 | Hugh Walker - 1915 - 400 pages
...occasion of his re-election as MP for Malmesbury in 1710, Swift avowed his belief that if Addison " had a mind to be chosen king, he would hardly be refused "; and Pope declared that he " had something more charming in his conversation than I ever knew in... | |
 | Julian Willis Abernethy - 1916 - 604 pages
...height of his political career in the office of Secretary of State. So popular was he, said Swift, " if he had a mind to be chosen king he would hardly be refused." Political duties were always seasoned with literature. In A Servant of the State JOSEPH ADDISON 1706... | |
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The Tories carry it among the new members six to one. Mr. Addison's election has passed easy and undisputed, and I believe, if he had a mind to be king, he would hardly be refused. 
