 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 500 pagina’s
...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 I might be used like a Lord by those who have an opinion of my parts ; whether right or wrong, it is no great... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 596 pagina’s
...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 I might be used like a lord by those who have an opinion of my parts ; whether right or wrong, it is * In Montesquieu's... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 602 pagina’s
...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 I might be used like a lord by those who have an opinion of my parts ; whether right or wrong, it is * In Montesquieu's... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1868 - 766 pagina’s
...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 I might be used like a lord by those who have an opinion of my parts, whether right or wrong is no great matter.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 480 pagina’s
...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 no great matter; and so the reputation of wit or great learning does the office 7 In Montesquieu's Persian Letters, there... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - 1849 - 608 pagina’s
...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 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 - 478 pagina’s
...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 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... | |
 | Edmund Phipps - 1850 - 534 pagina’s
...of spirits ; and I will farther 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)... | |
 | Edmund Phipps - 1850 - 516 pagina’s
...of spirits ; and I will farther 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 lie used like a lord by those who have an opinion of my parts (whether right or wrong, it is no great... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1853 - 360 pagina’s
...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 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.... | |
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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,... 
