 | Samuel Johnson - 1968 - 400 pages
...embryo" of this number, see Life, 1.2o6-o7. 2. "I have often endeavoured to establish a friendship among all men of genius, and would fain have it done. They are seldom above three or four contemporaries, and if they could be united, would drive the world before... | |
 | W. B. Carnochan - 1987 - 260 pages
...1979). 2. Swift wrote Pope on 20 September 1723: "I have often endeavoured to establish a Friendship among all Men of Genius, and would fain have it done, they are seldom above three or four Cotemporaries and if they could be united would drive the world before them"... | |
 | Alan D. Chalmers - 1995 - 188 pages
...complacence, as when he writes to Pope (another coauthor): I have often endeavoured to establish a friendship among all men of genius, and would fain have it done. They are seldom above three or four contemporaries, and, if they could be united, would drive the world before... | |
 | Patricia Carr Brückmann - 1997 - 204 pages
...most famous remark in this vein is well known: "I have often endeavoured to establish a Friendship among all Men of Genius, and would fain have it done. They are seldom above three or four Cotemporaries and if they could be united would drive the World before them"... | |
 | Pat Rogers - 2007
...friendships made explicit a tendency enunciated by Swift: I have often endeavoured to establish a Friendship among all Men of Genius, and would fain have it done. They are seldom above three or four Contemporaries and, if they could be united, would drive the world before... | |
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I have often endeavoured to establish a friendship among all men of genius, and would fain have it done : they are seldom above three or four contemporaries, and if they could be united, would drive the world before them. 
