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  • I am going to hunt out old Frowde, and to do some business in the City.

    The Journal to Stella 2003

  • Frowde, who appointed to call this morning: I am ready dressed to go to church: I suppose he dare not stir out but on

    The Journal to Stella 2003

  • Did I tell you that old Frowde, [15] the old fool, is selling his estate at Pepperhara, and is skulking about the town nobody knows where? and who do you think manages all this for him, but that rogue Child, [16] the double squire of Farnham?

    The Journal to Stella 2003

  • This Froud (Swift's "old Frowde") had been Deputy Postmaster-General; he was son of Sir Philip Frowde, who was knighted in 1665 (Le Neve's Knights, Harleian Society, p. 190), and his son Philip was Addison's friend (see Letter 8, note 13).

    The Journal to Stella Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745 1901

  • I am going to hunt out old Frowde, and to do some business in the City.

    The Journal to Stella Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745 1901

  • Did I tell you that old Frowde, [15] the old fool, is selling his estate at Pepperhara, and is skulking about the town nobody knows where? and who do you think manages all this for him, but that rogue Child, [16] the double squire of Farnham?

    The Journal to Stella Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745 1901

  • Forster suggests that Swift wrote "Frond" or "Frowde" and there is every reason to believe that this was the case.

    The Journal to Stella Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745 1901

  • Frowde, Henry, publishes "The Periodical" in form of a Chinese book, 88,

    The Booklover and His Books Harry Lyman Koopman 1898

  • Of cheap reprints of Hazlitt I commend _The Spirit of the Age_, _Winterslow_ and _Sketches and Essays_, three separate volumes of the World's Classics (Frowde).

    Immortal Memories Clement King Shorter 1891

  • Introductions by Dr.A. W. W.rd; in a volume illustrated by Hugh Thomson, with an Introduction by Mrs. Ritchie, published by the Macmillans, or in the W.rld's Classics (Henry Frowde), where there is an additional chapter entitled, "The Cage at Cranford."

    Immortal Memories Clement King Shorter 1891

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