 I was forty-seven years old when I began to think of death ;* and the reflections upon it now begin when I wake in the morning, and end when I am going to sleep.  The Works - Página 260de Jonathan Swift - 1884Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
 | Titus Munson Coan - 1883 - 300 páginas
...and temperament, an Englishman. He came of a good Hereford stock, and he was proud of his ancestry. " My birth, although from a family not undistinguished in its time, is many degrees inferior to yours," he says to Bolingbroke — an admission which he might safely make, for St. John had a strain of Tudor... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1883 - 924 páginas
...and temperament, an Englishman. He came of a good Hereford stock, and he was proud of his ancestry. " My birth, although from a family not undistinguished in its time, is many degrees inferior to yours," he says to Bolingbroke — an admission which he might safely make, for St. John had a strain of Tudor... | |
 | 1883 - 874 páginas
...and temperament, an Englishman. He came of a good Hereford stock, and he was proud of his ancestry. " My birth, although from a family not undistinguished in its time, is many degrees inferior to yours," he says to Bolingbroke — an admission which he might safely make, for St. John had a strain of Tudor... | |
 | 1883 - 886 páginas
...and temperament, an Englishman. He came of a good Hereford stock, and he was proud of his ancestry. " My birth, although from a family not undistinguished in its time, is many degrees inferior to yours," he says to Bolingbroke — an admission which he might safely make, for St John had a strain of Tudor... | |
 | Sir John Skelton - 1883 - 374 páginas
...was proud of his descent ; and, on this score, even Swift sometimes condescended to flatter him. " My birth, although from a family not undistinguished in its time, is many degrees inferior to yours." In the civil wars, though both Cavalier and Puritan soldiers had issued from the house, the St Johns... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1885 - 338 páginas
...even without wit. But you regard us not. I was forty-seven years old when I began to think of death ; and the reflections upon it now begin when I wake...the morning, and end when I am going to sleep. — I wrote to Mr. Pope, and not to you. My birth, although from a family not undistinguished in its time,... | |
 | Howard Williams, Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope - 1886 - 632 páginas
...even without wit. But you regard us not. I was forty-seven years old when I began to think of death ;a and the reflections upon it now begin when I wake in the morning, and end when I am going to sleep. My birth, although from a family not undistinguished in its time, is many degrees inferior to yours... | |
 | William J. O'Neill Daunt - 1888 - 338 páginas
..."I was," he tells Lord Bolingbroke in 1729, "forty-seven years old when I began to think of death ; and the reflections upon it now begin when I wake...in the morning, and end when I am going -to sleep." To Pope he says, in 1737, "When I was of your age I thought every day of death, but now every minute."... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1871 - 534 páginas
...even without wit. But you regard us not. I was forty-seven years old* when I began to think of death, and the reflections upon it now begin when I wake in the morning, and end when I am going to sleep. ' My lord,' I writ to Mr. Pope, and not to you. My birth, although from a family not undistinguished... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1905 - 582 páginas
...Swift wrote to Bolingbroke in 1739 : — ' I was forty-seven years old when I began to think of death ; and the reflections upon it now begin when I wake in the morning, and end when I am going to sleep." Works, xvii. 260. He was forty-seven four months after the Queen's death. He wrote to Pope in 1733... | |
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