| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1868 - 766 páginas
...Macheath, and made society stand and deliver." " All my endeavors to distinguish myself," he writes, " were only for want of a great title and fortune, that I might be used like a lord by those who have an opinion of my parts, whether right or wrong is no great... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1847 - 480 páginas
...Xenophon. I tell you it is almost incredible how opinions change by the decline or decay of spirits, and I will further tell you, that all my endeavours from a boy to distinguish myself, were only for want of a great title and fortune, that T might be used like a lord... | |
| Thomas Budd Shaw - 1849 - 478 páginas
...power and notoriety; or, as he says himself, "All my endeavours, from a boy, to distinguish myself, were only for want of a great title and fortune, that I might be used like a lord by those who have an opinion of my parts — whether right or wrong, it is... | |
| Edmund Phipps - 1850 - 534 páginas
...of spirits ; and I will farther tell you, that all my endeavours, from a boy, to distinguish myself, were only for want of a great title and fortune, that I might be used like a lord by those who have an opinion of my parts (whether right or wrong, it is no... | |
| Edmund Phipps - 1850 - 516 páginas
...of spirits ; and I will farther tell you, that all my endeavours, from a boy, to distinguish myself, were only for want of a great title and fortune, that I might lie used like a lord by those who have an opinion of my parts (whether right or wrong, it is... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1853 - 360 páginas
...as much himself in one of his letters to Bolingbroke : — " All my endeavours to distinguish myself were only for want of a great title and fortune, that I might be used like a lord by those who have an opinion of my parts ; whether right or wrong is no great... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1853 - 332 páginas
...as much himself in one of his letters to Bolingbroke : — " All my endeavours to distinguish myself were only for want of a great title and fortune, that I might be tised like a lord by those who have an opinion of my parts ; whether right or wrong is no... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1854 - 306 páginas
...as much himself in one of his letterf to Bolingbroke : — " All my endeavours to distinguish myself were only for want of a great title and fortune, that I might be used like a lord by those who have an opinion of my parts ; whether right or wrong is no great... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1858 - 598 páginas
...disregarded all power and all authority.' 'All my endeavours from a boy to distinguish myself,' said Swift, ' were only for want of a great title and fortune, that I might be used like a lord by those who have an opinion of my parts/ The determination of Johnson to... | |
| 1858 - 594 páginas
...all power and all authority.' ' All my endeavours from a boy to distinguish myself,' said Swift, ' were only for want of a great title and fortune, that I might be used like a lord by those who have an opinion of my parts/ The determination of Johnson to... | |
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