 | Gerald Patrick Moriarty - 1893 - 388 pages
...himself of his opportunity so eagerly as Swift. "All my endeavours to distinguish myself," he has said, " 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." The moment he had been waiting for ever... | |
 | 1893 - 804 pages
...of his ruling motive, and one which he at no time belied in conduct. " All my endeavors from a boy were only for want of a great title and fortune, that I might be used like a lord by those who had an opinion of my parts ; whether right or wrong is no great matter."... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 420 pages
...distinguish myself, were only for waut of a title and fortune, that I might be used like a lord by those who have an opinion of my parts : whether right or wrong, it is no great matter ; and so the reputation of wit or great learning does the office of a blue ribband, or of a coach and six... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 424 pages
...distinguish myself, were only for want of a title and fortune, that I might be used like a lord by those who have an opinion of my parts : whether right or wrong, it is no great matter ; and so the reputation of wit or great learning does the office of a blue ribband, or of a coach and six... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 428 pages
...distinguish myself, were only for want of a title and fortune, that I might be used like a lord by those who have an opinion of my parts : whether right or wrong, it is no great matter ; and so the reputation of wit or great learning does the office of a blue ribband, or of a coach and six... | |
 | Alfred Ainger - 1895 - 654 pages
...quoted the anecdote of the lost fish, he says that, "all my endeavours from a boy 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... | |
 | John Dennis - 1896 - 276 pages
...letter to Pope he makes the following confession : ' All my endeavours 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... | |
 | John Dennis - 1899 - 294 pages
...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... | |
 | John Churton Collins - 1902 - 312 pages
...you,' he wrote many years afterwards to Pope, ' that all my endeavours from a boy 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 it is no great matter.'... | |
 | Whitwell Elwin - 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, that I might be used like a lord by those who have an opinion of my parts." The determination of Johnson to make mind... | |
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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 I might be used like a Lord by those who have an opinion of my parts — whether right or wrong, it is no great matter,... 
