 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 512 pagine
...motto* which I took nine years ago, when I was weak enough to list again under the conduct of a man f of whom nature meant to make a spy, or, at most, a captain...fortune, in one of her whimsical moods, made a general. J I enjoy at this hour, with very tolerable health, great tranquillity of mind. You will, I am sure,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 396 pagine
...Bolingbroke had a very different, and indeed unjust, opinion of Lord Oxford, whom he calls, " a man of whom Nature meant to make a spy, or, at most, a captain...Fortune, in one of her whimsical moods, made a General." This After all, if your Lordship will tell my Lord Harley that I must not do this, you may depend upon... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 402 pagine
...Bolingbroke had a very different, and indeed unjust, opinion of Lord Oxford, whom he calls, "a man of whom Nature meant to make a spy, or, at most, a captain...Fortune, in one of her whimsical moods, made a General." This After all, if your Lordship will tell my Lord Harley that I must not do this, you may depend upon... | |
 | Englishmen - 1835 - 476 pagine
...dispose us to join in the bitter sarcasm of Bolingbroke, that he was " a mau of whom nature had intended to make a spy, or at most a captain of miners, and whom fortune in one of her whimsical moods had made a general." Of him might be truly predicted, what was said of a great man iu ancient times,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1853 - 384 pagine
...Oxford was feeble and procrastinating. His colleague said of him that he was a man whom Nature had meant to make a spy, or at most a captain of miners, and whom fortune, in one of her whimsical moods, had made a general. He was, account-book which had belonged to Bernard Lintot, in. which there is a... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1853 - 504 pagine
...dispose us to join in the bitter sarcasm of Bolingbroke, that he was " a man of whom nature had intended to make a spy, or at most a captain of miners, and whom fortune in one of her whimsical moods had made a general." Of him might be truly predicted, what was said of a great man in ancient times,... | |
 | Robert Carruthers - 1857 - 554 pagine
...Oxford was feeble and procrastinating. His colleague said of him that he was a man whom Nature had meant to make a spy, or at most a captain of miners,...and •whom fortune, in one of her whimsical moods, had made a general. He was, however, the honester man of the two. Eolingbrnke'a charactfii-vvna a strange... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott - 1883 - 504 pagine
...qucErere, nee sfernere, honorcm" ago, when I was weak enough to list again under the conduct of a man * of whom nature meant to make a spy, or, at most, a captain...fortune, in one of her whimsical moods, made a general, t I enjoy at this hour, with very tolerable health, great tranquillity of mind. You will, I am sure,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1883 - 510 pagine
...quarcre, nee spernere, honorcm." ago, when I was weak enough to list again under the conduct of a man * of whom nature meant to make a spy, or, at most, a captain...fortune, in one of her whimsical moods, made a general. t I enjoy at this hour, with very tolerable health, great tranquillity of mind. You will, I am sure,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1883 - 504 pagine
...e, nee spernere, honorem." ago, when I was weak enough to list again under the conduct of a man * of whom nature meant to make a spy, or, at most, a captain...fortune, in one of her whimsical moods, made a general, t I enjoy at this hour, with very tolerable health, great tranquillity of mind. You will, I am sure,... | |
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I took nine years ago, when I was weak enough to list again under the conduct of a man*, of whom nature meant to make a spy, or, at most, a Captain of miners ; and whom fortune, in one of her whimsical moods, made a general. 
