 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,...  The North American Review - Page 100edited by - 1868Full view - About this book
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1854 - 314 pages
...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...of wit and great learning does the office of a blue riband or a coach and six.'" Could there be a greater candour? It is an outlaw, who says, " These are... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - 1856 - 494 pages
...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 hace an opinion of my parts — whether right or wrong, it is no great matter." This was indeed but... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1858 - 598 pages
...disregarded all power and all authority.' 'All my endeavours from a boy to distinguish myself,' said Swift, ' were only for want of a great title and fortune, that...like 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... | |
 | 1858 - 594 pages
...all power and all authority.' ' All my endeavours from a boy to distinguish myself,' said Swift, ' were only for want of a great title and fortune, that...like 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... | |
 | William Caldwell Roscoe - 1860 - 576 pages
...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 fortune, that...does the office of a blue ribbon or a coach and six.' Could there be greater candour ? It is an outlaw who says, ' These are my brains ; with these I'll... | |
 | William Caldwell Roscoe - 1860 - 546 pages
...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 fortune, that...does the office of a blue ribbon or a coach and six.' Could there be greater candour ? It is an outlaw who says, 'These are my brains; with these I'll win... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1860 - 1090 pages
...to his friend Pope he says, 'I will tell you that all my endeavors from a boy to distinguish myself were only for want of a great title and fortune, that I might be used like n. lord by those who have an opinion of my parts; whether right or wrong, it is no great matter: and... | |
 | 1861 - 686 pages
...Lord Bolingbroke, his inducement to become literary ; "• All my endeavours to distinguish myself were only for want of a great title and fortune, that...parts ; whether right or wrong, is no great matter. An4 so the reputation of wit and great learning does the office of a blue riband or a coach and six."... | |
 | John Timbs - 1862 - 424 pages
...says of 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...great learning does the office of a blue ribbon or coach-and-six." A remarkable story is told by Scott, of Delany, who interrupted Archbishop King and... | |
 | American cyclopaedia - 1862 - 878 pages
...action of his life. " All my endeavors from a boy to distinguish myself," he writes to Bolinpbroke, " were only for want of a great title and fortune, that...an opinion of my parts — whether right or wrong, it is no great matter ;" and it may be supposed, after this humiliating confession, that the scruples... | |
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