 | Jonathan Swift - 1924 - 492 oldal
...years and general conversation. I am daily losing friends, and neither seeking nor getting others. Oh! if the world had but a dozen Arbuthnots in it, I would burn my Travels. But, however, he is not without fault. There is a passage in Bede highly commending the piety... | |
 | 1926 - 896 oldal
...peace of mind till all men are of my opinion." And then, in a moment of candour, he exclaims, " Oh ! if the world had but a dozen Arbuthnots in it, I would burn my ' Travels.' " Swift's great foundation, then, was what he called misanthropy, which was not so much... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1879 - 590 oldal
...every one goes on assigning those masterly pages to Swift or Pope. As a man this humouristphysician seems to have approached perfection as nearly as was...whispers that he too — " the darling of Dryden's youth " — tlle Pindar of England, " the lord of * Describing him in these complimentary lines : " On mere... | |
 | 1900 - 1086 oldal
...disclaimed it, saying, "It was writ by a friend of mine, a Scotchman." St. Patrick's Dean says further, "Oh, if the world had but a dozen Arbuthnots in it, I would burn my travels." Before the reign of Queen Ann, England had few physicians who were at the same time literary... | |
 | Norman Moore - 72 oldal
...wretched till he reached the place ubi saeva indignatio ulterius cor lacerare nequit. He yet said " Oh ! if the world had but a dozen Arbuthnots in it I would burn my travels." Physicians who have great opportunities of observing them have generally felt kindly towards... | |
 | Henry Arthur Treble - 1930 - 270 oldal
...description; (tf) a sense of humour; (e) wit? 3. Write explanatory notes on each of the following: (a) If the world had but a dozen Arbuthnots in it, I would burn my Travels. (b) I have an ill name, and therefore shall not subscribe it. (f) The invention of "ingrafting."... | |
 | 1828 - 402 oldal
...years and general conversation. I am daily losing friends, and neither seeking nor getting others. O, if the world had but a dozen Arbuthnots in it, I would burn my travels ! but, however, he is not without fault. There is a passage in Bede highly commending the piety... | |
 | 1928 - 728 oldal
...is a man that can do everything but walk ! " Swift never forgave his peculiarly rolling gait. "Oh! If the world had but a dozen Arbuthnots in it, I would burn my Travels ! " — and that world would have had no Gulliver ! — " But however he is not without fault.... | |
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Oh, if the world had but a dozen Arbuthnots in it I would burn my Travels, but however he is not without fault. 
