 | Jonathan Swift - 1808 - 478 pages
...employed my time (beside ditching) in finishing, correcting, amending, and transcribing my travels,-f- in four parts complete, newly augmented, and intended...'rather when a printer shall be found brave enough (o venture his ears. I like the scheme of our meeting after distresses and dispersions, but the chief... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1813 - 352 pages
...employed my time (beside ditching) in finishing, correcting, amending, and transcribing my travels,f in four parts complete, newly augmented, and intended...when a printer shall be found brave enough to venture bis ears. I like the scheme of our meeting after distresses and dispersions, but the chief end I propose... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1813 - 310 pages
...employed my time (beside ditching) in finishing, correcting, amending, and transcribing my travels,! in four parts complete, newly augmented, and intended...for the press, when the world shall deserve them, or ratheV when a printer shall be found brave enough to venture his ears. I like the scheme of our meeting... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 446 pages
...employed my time (besides ditching) in finishing, correcting, amending, and transcribing my" Travels3, in four parts complete, newly augmented, and intended...like the scheme of our meeting after distresses and 1 Gulliver's Travels. W. * These Travels and the Tale of a Tub are indisputably the two most capital... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 500 pages
...employed my time (besides ditching) in finishing, correcting, amending, and transcribing my2 Travels3, in four parts complete, newly augmented, and intended...like the scheme of our meeting after distresses and * Gulliver's Travels. W. * These Travels and the Tale of a Tub are indisputably the two most capital... | |
 | H. Nolte - 1823 - 646 pages
...employed my time (besides ditching) in finishing, correcting, amending, and transcribing my travels*), in four parts complete, newly augmented, and intended...dispersions: but the chief end I propose to myself in all labours, is to vex the world, rather than divert it; and if I could compass that design without hurting... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1853 - 360 pages
...time (besides ditching) in finishing, correcting, amending, and transcribing my travels [Gulliver's], in four parts complete, newly augmented, and intended...like the scheme of our meeting after distresses and dissensions ; but the chief end I propose to myself in all my labours is to vex the world rather than... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1853 - 332 pages
...time (besides ditching) in finishing, correcting, amending, and transcribing my travels [Gulliver's], in four parts complete, newly augmented, and intended...like the scheme of our meeting after distresses and dissensions ; but the chief end I propose to myself in all my labours is to vex the world rather than... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1854 - 306 pages
...time (besides ditching) in finishing, correcting, amending, and transcribing my travels [Gulliver's], in four parts complete, newly augmented, and intended...like the scheme of our meeting after distresses and dissensions ; but the chief end I propose to myself in all my labours is to vex the world rather than... | |
 | 1855 - 846 pages
...had written to Pope that he was transcribing his Travels " in four parts complete, newly angmented and intended for the press, when the world shall deserve...shall be found brave enough to venture his ears." * Gulliver's Travels were supposed to be introduced to the world by his cousin Richard Sympson. statesmen... | |
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I like the scheme of our meeting after distresses and dispersions ; but the chief end I propose to myself in all my labors is to vex the world rather than divert it ; and if I could compass that design without hurting my own person or fortune, I would... 
