 | Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1871 - 570 pages
...nothing but his end can tell. ' It is time for me to have done with the world . . . and so I would . . . and not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole.'5 Overwork and excess of emotions had made him ill from his youth : he was subject to giddiness... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1871 - 564 pages
...nothing but his end can tell. ' It is time for me to have done with the world . . . and so I would . . . and not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole.'2 Overwork and excess of emotions had made him ill from his youth : he was subject to giddiness... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1872 - 660 pages
...It is time for me to have done with the world, and so I would if I could get into a better before I was called into the best, and not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole." We have spoken about the men, and Swift's behaviour to them ; and now it behoves us not to forget that... | |
 | 1873 - 610 pages
...is ' time for me to have done with the world, and so I would if I ' could get into a better before I was called into the best, and ' not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole.' Pleasant gossip follows this sketch — gossip of Congreve and Addison, with wise critical remarks... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1873 - 826 pages
...It is time for me to have done with the world, and so I would if I could get into a better before I was called into the best, and not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole." Pleasant gossip follows this sketch, — gossip of Congreve and Addison, with wise critical remarks... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1901 - 414 pages
..."It is time for me to have done with the world, and so I would if I could get into a better before I was called into the best, and not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole." We have spoken about the men, and Swift's behaviour to them ; and now it behoves us not to forget that... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1874 - 798 pages
...the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent. Ibid. A nice man is a man of nasty ideas. ibid. Not die here in a rage like a poisoned rat in a hole. Letter to Bolingbrohe, March 21, 1729. I shall be like that tree, I shall die at the top. Scott's Life... | |
 | George Barnett Smith - Authors, American - 1875 - 552 pages
...It is time for me to have done with the world, and so I would if I could get into a better before I was called into the best, and not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole.' Excellent talk follows this sketch — gossip of Congreve and Addison, with wise critical remarks interspersed... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1875 - 890 pages
...man of nasty ideas. Ibid. The two noblest things, which are sweetness and light. Battle of the Books. Not die here in a rage like a poisoned rat in a hole. Litter to Bolingbro/te, March 21, 1729. I shall be like that tree, I shall die at the top. Scott's... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1881 - 878 pages
...It is time for me to have done with the world, and so I would if I could get into a tetter before I was called into the best, and not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole." We have spoken about the men. and Swift's behavior to them ; and now it behoves us not to forget that... | |
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I ought to think, that it is time for me to have done with the world, and so I would if I could get into a better before I was called into the best, and not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole. 
