 | Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806 - 538 pages
...decay of Spirits, and I will further tell you, that all my endeavours from a boy to diftinguifh myfelf, were only for want of a great Title and Fortune, that I might be ufed like a Lord by thofe who have an opinion of my parts ; whether right or wrong, it is jio great... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 394 pages
...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,...of a great title and fortune, that I might be used fike a Lord by those who have an opinion of my parts ; whether right or wrong, it is no •VOL. VII.... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1813 - 340 pages
...of spirits ; and I will farther toll you, that all my endeavours, from a boy, to distinguish njself, were only for want of a great title and fortune, that I might be used like a low! by those who have au opinion of my parts ; whether uight or wrong, it is no great matter ; and... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 596 pages
...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,...opinion of my parts ; whether right or wrong, it is * In Montesquieu's Persian Letters, there is an admirable one upon this subject. no great matter ;... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 602 pages
...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,...opinion of my parts ; whether right or wrong, it is * In Montesquieu's Persian Letters, there is an admirable one upon this subject. no great matter ;... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1868 - 766 pages
...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...have an opinion of my parts, whether right or wrong is no great matter. And so the reputation of wit and great learning does the office of a blue ribbon... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...says : 'All my endeavours, from a boy, to dislin gitish myself, were only for want of a great tille ympathising love of others' bliss — Where will you find another breast l oí my par — whether right or wrong, it is no great matter; and so the repulí lion of wit or great... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 480 pages
...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 by those who have an opinion of my parts ; whether right or wrong, it is... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - English literature - 1849 - 478 pages
...mind was an intense and arrogant desire for political power and notoriety; or, as he says himself, "All my endeavours, from a boy, to distinguish myself,...— whether right or wrong, it is no great matter." This was indeed but a low and creeping ambition ;•? and the fruit — at least as far as any augmentation... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - 1849 - 608 pages
...mind was an intense and arrogant desire for political 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 atid fortune, that I might be used like a lord by those who have an opinion of my parts — whether... | |
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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. And so the reputation of wit and great learning... 
