 | John Dennis - 1899 - 294 páginas
...letter to Pope he makes the following confession : ' All my endeaTours from a boy to distinguish myself were only for want of a great title and fortune that I might be treated like a lord .... whether right or wrong it is no great matter; and so the reputation of great... | |
 | Whitwell Elwin - 1902 - 574 páginas
...of defiance before he was offended. "All my efforts 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 make mind... | |
 | John Churton Collins - 1902 - 312 páginas
...you,' he wrote many years afterwards to Pope, ' 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 great matter.'... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1885 - 418 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 matter.... | |
 | Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh - 1903 - 460 páginas
...himself in one of his letters to Bolingbroke : " All my efforts to distinguish myself were only 1095 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 matter.... | |
 | John Dennis - 1906 - 286 páginas
...letter to Pope he makes the following confession : ' All my endeavours from a boy to distinguish myself were only for want of a great title and fortune that I might be treated like a lord .... whether right or wrong it is no great matter ; and so the reputation of great... | |
 | Henry Spackman Pancoast - 1907 - 690 páginas
...is a jest, and all things show it; I thought so once, but now I know it." — GAY: My Own Epitaph. only for want of a great title and fortune, that I might be used like a lord." Swift then is himself an actor in the farce he satirises ; he not only hates his... | |
 | Thomas H. Dickinson, Frederick William Roe - 1908 - 506 páginas
...says as much himself in one of his letters to Bolingbroke:— "All my endeavors to distinguish myself were only for want of a great title and fortune, that I might 15 be used like a lord by those who have an opinion of my parts; whether right or wrong is no great... | |
 | Henry Spackman Pancoast, Percy Van Dyke Shelly - 1910 - 564 páginas
...to doubt his sincerity when he says of 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." Swift then is himself an actor in the farce he satirizes; he not only hates his... | |
 | 1910 - 516 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 matter.... | |
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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 I might be used like a Lord by those who have an opinion of my parts — whether right or wrong, it is no great matter,... 
