 | 1893 - 974 pages
...ought to be " done with this world," he yet cries aloud his desire " to 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," a terrific image, and one of those phrases that burn and glow with a pale light of despair. But he... | |
 | Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) - Great Britain - 1894 - 300 pages
...and ought to be "done with this world," he yet cries aloud his desire "to 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," — a terrific image, and one of those phrases that burn and glow with a pale light of despair. But... | |
 | Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) - Great Britain - 1894 - 436 pages
...ought to be ' done with this world,' he yet cries aloud his desire to ' 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'—a terrific image, and one of those phrases that burn and glow with a pale light of despair.... | |
 | Alfred Ainger - 1895 - 654 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." That terrible phrase expresses but too vividly the state of mind which was now becoming familiar to... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1896 - 510 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 behavior to them ; and now it behooves us not to forget... | |
 | Mottoes - 1896 - 1224 pages
...enforced, shows a hasty spark, And straight is cold again. 6. Julius Caaar. Act IV. Sc. 3. L. 109. dear than they ! y. WHITTIER — ilfinoriei. St. 4. ME c. SWIFT — Letter to Bolingbroke, March 21, 1729. Senseless, and deformed, Convulsive Anger storms... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1897 - 478 pages
...in 1729, " to have done with the world ; and so I would if I could get into a better world before I was called into the best ; and not die here in a rage like a poisoned rat in a hole." He more than once tried to obtain some English preferment instead of his deanery. With this object,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1898 - 824 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'a behaviour to them ; and now it behoves us not to forget that... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - Authors, Irish - 1899 - 350 pages
...childhood," as he was nearly fourteen years the elder. When he first saw her he was a young man. before I was called into the best, and not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole." XLVI. DUBLIN. Feb i^th 1726-7. SR, — I should have sooner answered yr Lettr [your Letter] if my time... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - Authors, Irish - 1899 - 340 pages
...childhood," as he was nearly fourteen years the elder. When he first saw her he was a young man. before I was called into the best, and not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole." XLVI. DUBLIN. Feb \^th 1726-7. SR, — I should have sooner answered yr Lettr [your Letter] if my time... | |
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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. 
