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" I like the scheme of our meeting after distresses and dispersions, but the chief end I propose to myself in all my labours is to vex the world rather than divert it ; and if I could compass that design without hurting my own person or fortune, I would... "
The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Nine Volumes Complete, with His Last ... - Pagina 54
door Alexander Pope - 1760
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Veronica Playfair

Maud Wilder Goodwin - 1910 - 352 pagina’s
...interested in you because I am good, for I own to being no philanthropist. The chief end I propose to myself is to vex the world rather than divert it, and if I could compass that design without hurting my own person or fortune, I would be most indefatigable, I assure...
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Selected English Letters

Claude Moore Fuess - 1914 - 136 pagina’s
...our meeting after distresses and dispersions. But the chief end I propose to myself in all my labors, is to vex the world, rather than divert it; and if I could compass that design without hurting my own person or fortune, I would be the most indefatigable writer...
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With the Wits: Shelburne Essays, Tenth Series

Paul Elmer More - 1919 - 550 pagina’s
...From there also he sent to the same person his literary profession: "The chief end I propose to myself in all my labours is to vex the world rather than divert it. ... I hate and detest that animal called man." He changed the name of the animal to Yahoo in his great...
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Shelburne Essays: With the wits

Paul Elmer More - 1919 - 342 pagina’s
...From there also he sent to the same person his literary profession: "The chief end I propose to myself in all my labours is to vex the world rather than divert it. ... I hate and detest that animal called man." He changed the name of the animal to Yahoo in his great...
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Shelburne Essays: With the wits

Paul Elmer More - 1919 - 336 pagina’s
...From there also he sent to the same person hisliterary profession: "The chief end I propose to myself in all my labours is to vex the world rather than divert it. ... I hate and detest that animal called man." He changed the name of the animal to Yahoo in his great...
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THEENCYCLOPEDIA AMERICANA

1920 - 912 pagina’s
...like the scheme of our meeting after distresses and dispersions, but the chief aim I propose to myself in all my labours is, to vex the world rather than divert it, and if I could compass that design, without hurting my person or fortune, I would be the most indefatigable writer...
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The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, Volume 8

Jonathan Swift - 1922 - 358 pagina’s
...explained it in a letter to Pope. " The chief end I propose to myself in all my labours," he writes,1 "is to vex the world rather than divert it, and if I could compass that design without hurting my own person or fortune, I would be the most indefatigable writer...
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The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, Volume 8

Jonathan Swift - 1922 - 354 pagina’s
...explained it in a letter to Pope. " The chief end I propose to myself in all my labours," he writes,1 "is to vex the world rather than divert it, and if I could compass that design without hurting my own person or fortune, I would be the most indefatigable writer...
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The Collected Essays & Addresses of the Rt. Hon. Augustine Birrell ..., Volume 1

Augustine Birrell - 1923 - 430 pagina’s
...the scheme of our meeting after distresses and dispersions, but the chief end I propose for myself in all my labours is to vex the world rather than divert it, and if I could compass that design without hurting my own person or fortune, I would be the most indefatigable writer...
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Collected Essays & Addresses, 1880-1920, Volume 1

Augustine Birrell - 1923 - 430 pagina’s
...the scheme of our meeting after distresses and dispersions, but the chief end I propose for myself in all my labours is to vex the world rather than divert it, and if I could compass that design without hurting my own person or fortune, I would be the most indefatigable writer...
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