 | John Walton Murray - 1874 - 208 halaman
...production is sufficiently high. In after years when he read it over, he is said to have exclaimed : " Good God ! what a genius I had when I wrote that book." And indeed it is a work of incomparable genius — witty, humorous, sarcastic, severe. It is so well... | |
 | Edward Isidore Sears - 1874 - 426 halaman
...October, 1694, at which time he wrote " The Tale of a Tub," and in old age said, in allusion to it, " Good God, what a genius I had when I wrote that book!" Got priest's orders in January, 1695, and soon after was made prebend of Kilroot, at £100 a year.... | |
 | Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart - 1877 - 732 halaman
...Tub "—the great satire which had both made and marred his fortunes — -and muttering to himself, " Good God ! what a genius I had when I wrote that book ! " His life from beginning to end was filled with the elements of tragedy. Deep and violent passions... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - 1879 - 532 halaman
...publication was answered,' but was once overheard muttering, after glancing over the ' Tale of a Tub,' ' Good God! what a genius I had when I wrote that book!' No intoxication, bodily or mental, from wine, from opium, or from love, can last long without periods... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1881 - 368 halaman
...his ' Tale of a Tub.' He might well, however, in his old age, exclaim, in reference to the latter, ' Good God ! what a genius I had when I wrote that book ! ' It is the wildest, wittiest, wickedest, wealthiest book of its size in the English language. Thoughts... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1882 - 236 halaman
...In the twilight of his intellect, he was seen turning over the pages and murmuring to ' himself, " Good God, what a genius I had when I wrote , that book!" In an apology (dated 1709) he makes a statement which may help to explain this fact. " The author,"... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1882 - 622 halaman
...preceded his death, Swift was heard by Mrs. Whiteway to mutter, as he turned over the leaves of the book, "Good God, what a genius I had when I wrote that book ! " APPENDIX III. THE AUTHORSHIP OF THE HISTORY OF THE FOUR LAST YEARS OF THE QUEEN As is the case... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1882 - 874 halaman
...forward with a fatal clearness. In his old age, looking at the " Tale of a Tub," when he said, '.' Good God, what a genius I had when I wrote that book ! " I think he was admiring not the genius, but the consequences to which the genius had brought him... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1882 - 622 halaman
...his death, Swift was heard by Mrs. Whiteway to mutter, as he turned over the leaves of the book, " Good God, what a genius I had when I wrote that book !" APPENDIX IK. THE AUTHORSHIP OF THE HISTORY OF THE FOUR LAST YEARS Of THE QUEEN As is the case with... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1883 - 668 halaman
...see forward with a fatal clearness. In his old age, looking at the " Tale of a Tub," when he said, " Good God, what a genius I had when I wrote that book ! " I think he was admiring not the genius, but the consequences to which the genius had brought him... | |
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Good God, what a genius I had when I wrote that book! 
