 | Kenneth Norman Bell, Gladys M. Morgan - 1925 - 376 pages
...to avoid dead cats and broken glasses ; and though Addison was elected (" I believe," says Swift, " if he had a mind to be chosen king, he would hardly be refused"), the Tories were triumphant in every direction. And meanwhile, the Tory leaders were delightfully civil.... | |
 | Edward Alan Bloom, Lillian D. Bloom - 1995 - 508 pages
...Stella in these remarkable words: 'The Tories carry it among the new members six to one. Mr. Add t son's election has passed easy and undisputed; and I believe if he had a mind to be king he would hardly be refused.1 (21) The good will with which the Tories regarded Addison is the... | |
 | Alexandre Beljame - 1998 - 528 pages
...: " . . . new elections, where the Tories carry it among the new members six to one. Mr. Addiion's election has passed easy and undisputed ; and I believe...mind to be chosen king he would hardly be refused ". m These remarkable words admirably reveal the nature of Addison's peculiar influence on his contemporaries.... | |
 | Dictionary - 1885 - 500 pages
...his life ; Swift notes upon his re-election in 1710 that it ' passed easy and undisputed,' and that ' if he had a mind to be chosen king, he would hardly be refused ' (Journal to Stella, 8 Oct. 1710)'; but his modesty prevented him from ever speaking. In the autumn... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1879 - 590 pages
...Lord Wharton, the first electioneering agent of the day, and Swift tells Stella he believes if Addison had a mind to be chosen king he would hardly be refused. And lastly, when the Whigs are in again, and Addison at the summit of his political fame as Secretary... | |
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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. 
