...and I believe our friendship will go off by this damned business of party. He cannot bear seeing mo fall in so with the ministry; but I love him still as much as ever, though we seldom meet." And again on the following day, he blames Addison as having been the means of preventing Steele's accommodation...

...used in common conversation, instead of " England." On the 1 4th Swift wrote : " Mr. Addison and I are different as black and white, and I believe our friendship will go off, by this damned business of party: he cannot bear seeing me fall in so with this ministry ; but I love him still...

...Swift from the Whig to the Tory allegiance. In December Swift writes to Stella : "Mr. Addison and I are as different as black and white, and I believe our...by this d business of party. He cannot bear seeing * And Swift said of Addison : "That man has worth enough to give reputation to an age." There is no...

...is no record in literature of two great friends speaking thus of each other with such perfect truth. me fall in so with the Ministry ; but I love him still as much as ever, though we seldom meet." Swift had proved that he loved him still by using his powerful influence on his behalf with the Tory...

...is written was a Whig ; hence the different views taken by him and Swift. will go off by this damned business of party ; he cannot bear seeing me fall in so with this ministry ; but I love him still as well as ever, though we seldom meet." Unwilling to quarrel...

...displeased at his friend's defection. In December Swift writes to Stella: — "Mr. Addison and I are as different as black and white, and I believe our...him still as much as ever, though we seldom meet." In January 1710-11, he says: "I called at the coffee-house, where I had not been in a week, and talked...

...spoil Stella's chocolate, and that all is safe ; pray let me know. Mr Addison and I are differ- ^ ent as black and white, and I believe our friendship will go off, by this damned business of party : he cannot bear seeing me fall in so with this ministry ; but I love him...

...tobacco did not spoil Stella's chocolate, and that all is safe : pray let me know. Mr. Addison and I are different as black and white, and I believe our friendship will go off, by this damned business of party : he cannot bear seeing me fall in so with this Ministry : but I love him...

...Addison and I are different as black and white, and I believe our friendship will go off, by this damned business of party : he cannot bear seeing me fall in so with this Ministry : but I love him still as well as ever, though we seldom meet. — Hussy, Stella, you...

...intimate with the new Tory ministry, Swift writes in the Journal to Stella, " Mr. Addison and I are as different as black and white, and I believe our friendship will go off by this damned business of party." A month later, January 14, 1711, he says, "At the coffeehouse talked coldly...