 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1896 - 510 pages
...letters to Bolingbroke : — "All my endeavors to distinguish myself were only for want of agréât title and fortune, that I might be used like a lord...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... | |
 | John Dennis - 1896 - 276 pages
...says, 'there will be no governing them.' And in a letter to Pope he makes the following confession : ' All my endeavours from a boy to distinguish myself...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... | |
 | John Dennis - English literature - 1899 - 294 pages
...no governing them.' And in a 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... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1900 - 414 pages
...Dean; I'll 40 He says as much himself in one of his letters to Bolingbroke: — "All my endeavours to distinguish myself were only for want of a great...fortune, that I might be used like a lord by those who shave an opinion of my parts; whether right or wrong is no great matter. And so the reputation of wit... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1885 - 418 pages
...POLITENESS. He says as much himself in one of his letters to Bolingbroke : — " All my endeavours to distinguish myself were only for want of a great...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 ribaud... | |
 | Whitwell Elwin - Authors, English - 1902 - 574 pages
...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,...a lord by those who have an opinion of my parts." The determination of Johnson to make mind supply the place of money and rank was of a more dignified... | |
 | John Churton Collins - 1902 - 312 pages
...distinguish myself were only '.ir the want of a great title and fortune, that I might ho used like a 1 by those who have an opinion of my parts, whether right or i ong it is no great matter ; and so the reputation of wit and great • irningdoesthc office of a... | |
 | John Dennis - English literature - 1906 - 286 pages
...says, 'there will be no governing them.' And in a letter to Pope he makes the following confession : ' All my endeavours from a boy to distinguish myself...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... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1906 - 192 pages
...services as a bravo. He says 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 for- V tune, that I might be used like a lord by those who have an opinion of my parts; whether right... | |
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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... 
