 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1891 - 498 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 o opening them once more... | |
 | 1891 - 780 pages
...Bathurst, of whom your Popes and Swifts have sang and spoken so much 1 I have lived my life with geniuses of that cast, but have survived them ; and, despairing ever to find their equals, it is some yeara since I have shut ap my books and closed my accounts ; but yon have kindled a desire in me of... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1896 - 510 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 - 418 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... | |
 | 1906 - 578 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 more... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1906 - 192 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 then: equals, it is some years since I have shut up my books and closed my accounts ; but you have... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1911 - 278 pages
...Bathurst, of whom your Popes and Sw ifts 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 more... | |
 | 1916 - 792 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 ftiore... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1916 - 828 pages
...Bathurst, of whom you Popes and Swifts have sung and spoken a much ? I have lived my life with geniuses»' Eternity.' 'What is the reason,' said I, 'that the...see rises out of a thick mist at one end, and aga shut up my books and do*•: my accounts; but you have kindled a desire in me of opening them once... | |
 | Frank Donoghue - 1996 - 246 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 1 have closed my accounts, and shut up my books, with thoughts of never opening them again: but you... | |
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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;... 
