He stood by and waited while bolingbroke and Rochester and their allies in the press cried out that the Government was now in the hands of the enemies of the Church, accused the Whigs of protracting the war to fill their own pockets with the plunder of the Supplies, and called upon the nation to put an end to their jobbery and mismanagement.
"Daniel Defoe"
William Minto
Addison, bolingbroke, Congreve, Swift, and Pope were snuff-takers.
"England in the Days of Old"
William Andrews
While Oxford was sent to the Tower, and bolingbroke escaped to France, Swift retired to Dublin, and Prior, after being imprisoned, passed the remainder of his life in retirement.
"English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century"
Leslie Stephen
