 | Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott - 1883 - 504 pages
...affairs here, I go to Wimple ; thence alone, to Herefordshire. If I have not tired you t&te-at§te, fling away so much time upon one who loves you. And...the mass of souls, ours were placed near each other. * Indorsed, "Just before the loss of his staff."— N. t The Earl of Oxford, in his " Brief Account... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1883 - 510 pages
...affairs here, I go to Wimple ; thence alone, to Herefordshire. If I have not tired you tbte-dl§le, fling away so much time upon one who loves you. And...the mass of souls, ours were placed near each other. * Indorsed, "Just before the loss of his staff."— N. t The Earl of Oxford, in his " Brief Account... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1883 - 504 pages
...affairs here, I go to Wimple ; thence alone, to Herefordshire. If I have not tired you t&te-d-tfte, fling away so much time upon one who loves you. And...the mass of souls, ours were placed near each other. * Indorsed, "Just before the loss of his staff." — N. t The Earl of Oxford, in his " Brief Account... | |
 | Gerald Patrick Moriarty - 1893 - 402 pages
...the opportunity to ask the Dean's opinion on what he was pleased to call an imitation of Dryden : " To serve with love, And shed your blood, Approved...below, Th' examples show, 'Tis fatal to be good." The lines are somewhat above the average of those with which Oxford was wont to weary his friends.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1898 - 608 pages
...print. The best, I think, is a suuua which he made on his own fall in 1714 ; and bad is the best. " To serve with love, And shed your blood. Approved is above ; But here below The examples show Tis fatal to be good. " (18SS-) Since the first edition of this part of my history... | |
 | Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts - 1899 - 704 pages
...go out with as much honour and innocency as I came in. Let me send you the following imitation : — To serve with love, And shed your blood, Approved "is above; But here below, Th' example show, It is fatal to be good. God preserve my dearest sister. Affectionate service to Sister... | |
 | Walter Sichel - 1901 - 584 pages
...occasionally without an antique aptness of terse expression. Writing to Swift on July 27, 1714, he says, "... and I believe, in the mass of souls, ours were placed near each other." If we compare the two camps in this respect, the Tory is infinitely the more brilliant. Halifax, himself... | |
 | Walter Sichel - 1901 - 582 pages
...miserable verses and imagining he was Dryden. Here are those he composed when he did " lay down":— " To serve with love, And shed your blood, Approved is above : But here below TV examples show 'Tis fatal to be good." And here are some even worse which he enclosed in a letter... | |
 | Edward Stanley Roscoe - 1902 - 374 pages
...out with as much honour and innocency as I came in. Let me send you the following imitation : — " ' To serve with love, And shed your blood, Approved is above ; But here below, Th' examples show, It is fatal to be good.' " God preserve my dearest sister. Affectionate service to Sister Harley. I... | |
 | Edward Stanley Roscoe - 1902 - 310 pages
...go out with as much honour and innocency as I came in. Let me send you the following imitation : — '"To serve with love, And shed your blood, Approved is above ; But here below, Th' examples show, It is fatal to be good.' " God preserve my dearest sister. Affectionate service to Sister Harley. I... | |
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I have not tired you tete-d-tete, fling away so much time upon one who loves you. And I believe, in the mass of souls, ours were placed near each other. I send you an imitation of Dryden, as I went to Kensington : To serve with love, And shed your blood,... 
