 ... air, and of the people, it will make a terrible sum. I have no very strong faith in your pretenders to retirement ; * you are not of an age for it, nor have gone through either good or bad fortune enough to go into a corner, and form conclusions de...  Tremaine: Or, The Man of Refinement - Page 214by Robert Plumer Ward - 1825Full view - About this book
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 424 pages
...three at yours, to which if you add the dulness of air, and of the people, it will make a terrible sum. I have no very strong faith in your pretenders to retirement, you are not of an age for it, nor have gone through either good or bad fortune enough to go into a corner,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 394 pages
...yours, to which if you add the dulness of the air, and of the people, it will make a terrible sum. I have no very strong faith in your pretenders to retirement ; you are not cf an age for it, nor have gone through either good or bad fortune enough to go into a corner,... | |
 | England - 1825 - 806 pages
...cannot wonder the world had claims upon him.' 44 ' That I should forgive,' returned Evelyn, 4< if it was not for this affectation, which even Swift laughed at, as much as he dared.' 44 • Swift laugh nt Bolingbroke !' 44 4 He at least tells Pope, (whom my Lord bad most charmingly... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 446 pages
...yours, to which if you add the dulness of the air, and of the people, it will make a terrible sum. I have no very strong faith in your pretenders to Retirement ; you are not of an age for it, nor have gone through either good or bad fortune enough to go into a corner,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 500 pages
...yours, to which if you add the dulness of the air, and of the people, it will make a terrible sum. I have no very strong faith in your pretenders to Retirement ; you are not of an age for it, nor have gone through either good or bad fortune enough to go into a corner,... | |
 | England - 1825 - 848 pages
...cannot wonder the world had claims upon him.' " ' That I should forgive,' returned Evelyn, " if it was not for this affectation, , which even Swift laughed...things than this,) " I have no very strong faith in you pretenders to retirement ; you have not gone through good or bad fortune enough to go into a corner... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1825 - 622 pages
...cannot wonder (he world had claims upon him.' " ' That I should forgive,' returned Evelyn, ' if it was not for this affectation, which even Swift laughed...most charmingly gulled in more things than this,) " 1 have no very strong faith in your pretenders to retirement; you have not gone through good or bad... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Authors, English - 1844 - 780 pages
...has reported them ; — In Swift's own letter they are, If I recollect right, rather different. [" I have no very strong faith in your pretenders to retirement : you are not of an age for It, nor bare gone through either good or bad fortune enough to go into a corner,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1873 - 798 pages
...Johnson has reported them ; — in Swift's own letter they arc, If I recollect right, rather dim-rent. [" I have no very strong faith in your pretenders to retirement : you are not of an age for It, nor hare gone through either good or bad fortune enough to go into a corner,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - Authors, English - 1883 - 510 pages
...at yours, to which, if you add the dulness of air, and of the people, it will make a terrible sum. I have no very strong faith in your pretenders to retirement ; * you are not of an age for it, nor have gone through either good or bad fortune enough to go into a corner,... | |
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