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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Nine Volumes Complete, with His Last ... - Page 54
by Alexander Pope - 1760
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The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray: The four Georges and The English ...

William Makepeace Thackeray - 1885 - 416 pages
...the scheme of our meeting after distresses and dispersions ; but the chief end I propose to myself in all my labours 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 be the most indefatigable writer...
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Letters and Journals of Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift - 1885 - 354 pages
...like the scheme of our meeting after distresses and dispersions, but the chief end I propose to myself in all my labours 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 be the most indefatigable writer...
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Lectures on the English humourists of the eighteenth century: Mit ...

William Makepeace Thackeray - 1885 - 572 pages
...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 divert it; and if 1 could compass that design without hurting my own person or fortune, I would be the most indefatigable...
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Prose Writings of Swift

Jonathan Swift - 1886 - 402 pages
...with the world. Death released him on the 19* of October 1745. " The chief end I purpose to myself in all my labours 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 be the most indefatigable writer...
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Roundabout Papers, to which is Added The Second Funeral of Napoleon ...

William Makepeace Thackeray - 1886 - 876 pages
...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 desigi> without hurting my own person or fortune, I would be the most indefatigable writer...
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Complete Works, Volume 4

William Makepeace Thackeray - 1886 - 914 pages
...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 be the most indefatigable writer...
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The Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray: The four Georges ; The ...

William Makepeace Thackeray - 1889 - 554 pages
...ennobling. You are in the society of men who have filled the greatest parts in the world's 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 be the most indefatigable writer...
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Swift: The Mystery of His Life and Love

James Hay - 1891 - 390 pages
...the scheme of our meeting, after distresses and dispersions ; but the chief end I propose to myself in all my labours 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 be the most indefatigable writer...
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Swift: The Mystery of His Life and Love

James Hay - 1891 - 390 pages
...of our meeting, after distresses i aria dispersions; but the chief end I propose to myself in all j my labours is, to vex the world rather than divert it ; and if II could compass that design without hurting my own person or ' fortune, I would be the most indefatigable...
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Thackeray's Works, Volume 8

William Makepeace Thackeray - 1891 - 474 pages
...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 be the most indefatigable writer...
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