 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1873 - 610 pages
...Bathurst, of whom your Popes and Swifts have sung and spoken so much ? I have lived my life with geninses of that cast ; but have survived them ; and, despairing...to find their equals, it is some years since I have shut up my books and closed my accounts ; but you have kindled a desire in me of opening them once... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1881 - 732 pages
...Bathurst, of whom your Popes and Swifts have sung and spoken so much ? I have lived my life with geniuses of that cast ; but have survived them ; and, despairing...to find their equals, it is some years since I have shut up my books and closed rny accounts ; but you have kindled a desire in me of opening them once... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1881 - 878 pages
...Bathurst, of whom your Popes aiul Swifts have sung and spoken so much? I have lived my life with geniuses of that cast ; but have survived them : and, despairing ever to find their equals, it is some years siuce I have shut up my books and closed my accounts ; but you have kindled a desire in me of opening... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1882 - 874 pages
...Bathurst, of whom your Popes and Swifts have sung and spoken so much? I have lived my life with geniuses of that cast ; but have survived them ; and, despairing...to find their equals, it is some years since I have shut up my books and closed my accounts ; but you have kindled a desire in me of opening them once... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1883 - 668 pages
...Bathurst, of whom your Popes and Swifts have sung and spoken so much ? I have lived my life with geniuses of that cast ; but have survived them ; and, despairing...to find their equals, it is some years since I have shut up my books and closed my accounts ; but you have kindled a desire in me of opening them once... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1885 - 416 pages
...Bathurst, of whom your Popes and Swifts have sung and spoken so much ? I have lived my life with geniuses of that cast ; but have survived them ; and, despairing...to find their equals, it is some years since I have shut up my books and closed my accounts ; but you have kindled a desire in me of opening them once... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1885 - 572 pages
...Bathurst, of whom your Popes and Swifts have sung37) and spoken so much? I have lived my life with geniuses of that cast; but have survived them; and, despairing...to find their equals, it is some years since I have shut up my books and closed my accounts; but you have kindled a desire in me of opening them once more... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1886 - 876 pages
...Bathurst, of whom your Popes and Swifts have sung and spoken so much? 1 have lived my life with geniuses of that cast ; but have survived them ; and, despairing...to find their equals, it is some years since I have shut up my books and closed my accounts ; but you have kindled a desire in me of opening them once... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1886 - 914 pages
...Bathurst, of whom your Popes and Swifts have sung and spoken so much? I have lived my life with geniuses of that cast ; but have survived them ; and. despairing...to find their equals, it is some years since I have shut up my books and closed my accounts ; but you have kindled a desire in me of opening them once... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1889 - 554 pages
...Bathurst, of whom your Popes and Swifts have sung and spoken so much ? I have lived my life with geniuses of that cast ; but have survived them ; and, despairing...ever to find their equals, it is some years since I speed him ! For my own part, I fear I should never so find the way : let me be wise and religious,... | |
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I want to know you, Mr. Sterne, but it is fit you also should know who it is that wishes this pleasure. You have heard of an old Lord Bathurst, of whom your Popes and Swifts have sung and spoken so much? I have lived my life with geniuses of that cast;... 
