[6]: This I resented highly that he should complain of me before he spoke to me. I sent him a peppering letter, and would not summon him by a note as I did the rest. Nor ever will have any thing to say to him till he begs my pardon.
[7]: Lettre à Bolingbroke.
[8]: A person of great honour in Ireland (who was pleased to stoop so low as to look into my mind) used to tell me that my mind was like a conjured spirit, that would do mischief, if I would not give it employment.
[9]: All the whigs were ravished to see me, and would have laid hold on me as a twig, to save them from sinking; and the great men were all making me their clumsy apologies. It is good to see what a lamentable confession the whigs all make of my ill usage.
[10]: So, my lord lieutenant, this is a glorious exploit that you performed yesterday, in issuing a proclamation against a poor shopkeeper, whose only crime is an honest endeavour to save his country from ruin.
[11]: Il avait esquissé dès cette époque le Conte du Tonneau.
[12]: Il dit à la muse:
Wert thou right woman, thou should'st scorn to look
On an abandon'd wretch by hopes forsook,
Forsook by hopes, ill fortune's last relief,
Assign'd for life to unremitting grief,
To thee I owe that fatal bend of mind
Still to unhappy restless thoughts inclined;
To thee what oft I vainly strive to hide,
That scorn of fools, by fools mistook for pride.
[13]: Don't you remember how I used to be in pain when sir William Temple would look cold and out of humour for three or four days, and I used to suspect a hundred reasons? I have plucked up my spirit since then, faith. He spoiled a fine gentleman.
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