 | William John Courthope - 1905 - 528 דפים
...according to the report of the Duchess of Portland — " noble, lovely, little Peggy" — caused him to be "beloved by every living thing in the house, master, child, and servant, human creature or animal." l To analyse the familiar style of Prior's great contemporary, Swift, is a matter of far more difficulty.... | |
 | Matthew Prior - 1907 - 402 דפים
...the testimony of " the noble, lovely, little Peggy " herself, afterwards Duchess of Portland, that" he made himself beloved by every living thing in the...—master, child, and servant, human creature or animal." That is no small praise and may be weighed against other traits not so admirable. We have seen that... | |
 | Sir William Robertson Nicoll, Thomas Seccombe - 1907 - 512 דפים
...according to the report of the Duchess of Portland — ' noble, lovely, little Peggy' — caused him to be beloved by every living thing in the house, master, child, and servant, human creature or animal." — COUBTHOPE, A History of English Poetry. The familiar style of Prior and Gay — Parnell— Pomfret—... | |
 | Leslie Stephen, Sir Sidney Lee - 1909 - 1360 דפים
...Prior addressed the lines beginning ' My noble, lovely little Peggy.' Her recollection of him was that he made ' himself beloved by every living thing in...master, child, and servant, human creature, or animal ' (LABT M. WOBTLEY MONTAGU, Works, ed. Wharncliffe, 1837, i. 63). Apart from the somewhat full-wigged... | |
 | Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society - 1910 - 440 דפים
...the words of the Duchess of Portland (cf. Works of Lady MW Montague, Vol. I., p. 63), that he was " beloved by every living thing in the house, master, child, and servant, human creature, or animal." The following is a list of some of the works which might be with advantage consulted by those wishing... | |
 | Edward Thomas - 1911 - 388 דפים
...lady whom he called in her childhood " My noble lovely little Peggy," he was remembered as a man " beloved by every living thing in the house — master, child and servant, human creature or animal." So much was he above his poetry. Thomson also was weakened by his age in the same way though not to... | |
 | Francis Bickley - 1914 - 338 דפים
...It is not surprising if, in after years, Peggy had pleasant recollections of the poet, as one who " made himself beloved by every living thing in the...master, child, and servant, human creature or animal." Writing verses and letters, browsing among Harley's books or his own, dining in Dover Street or Lincoln's... | |
 | Austin Dobson - 1915 - 340 דפים
...is the afterstatement of ' Peggy ' herself — as reported by Lady Louisa Stuart — that he was ' beloved by every living thing in the house — master, child, and servant, human creature or animal.' 2 There is a portrait of Margaret Harley about this date by the popular Swede, Michael Dahl, 1 Bath... | |
 | Leopold George Wickham Legg - 1921 - 370 דפים
...favourite at Wimpole, Lord Harley's seat, where Lord Harley 's daughter, later Duchess of Portland, said he "made himself beloved by every living thing...house — master, child and servant, human creature or animal3." And his affection for them shines out clearly from his correspondence. His favourite was... | |
 | Adolph Charles Babenroth - 1922 - 420 דפים
...of his genuineness, as Peggy's later tribute, after she had become Duchess of Portland, indicates : "he made himself beloved by every living thing in the house — master, child, servant, human creature or animal." 1 The Female Phaeton was a favorite of that modern singer of child... | |
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of one of his most charming minor pieces, described as making ' himself beloved by every living thing in the house — master, child, and servant, human creature, or animal. 
