 | William Walsh - 1736 - 264 pages
...your felf, that you will not believe any body elfe can : That you find nothing agreeable in my Perfon, from the Crown of my Head, to the Sole of my Foot i That for my Wit, ,(for every body, Madam, carries fomewhat about them which they call Wit) it is... | |
 | François Marie Arouet de [prose] Voltaire - 1805 - 288 pages
...the occupation of men of letters to flatter kings, but I had the honor of being praised by a monarch from the crown of my head to the sole of my foot, at the very time that I was libelled at least once a week by the Abbe Des Fontaines and other insignificant... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 322 pages
...ever reckoned a good liver ; " and I think I have the bowels of compassion. I ask " but justice, and from the crown of my head to the " sole of my foot, I shall ever acknowledge myself, " your worship's humble servant." No sooner was Martin got home, but... | |
 | Akeroyde's padd (Dance) - 1812 - 352 pages
...I will furnish you with a list, and an analysis or description in my next ; and meanwhile I remain, from the crown of my head to the sole of my foot, your ladyship's own devoted PARIS. EXCERPTIONS from the Essays of Sir Thomas Pope Slount. 1690. IT... | |
 | Emanuel Swedenborg - 1819 - 768 pages
...full of infection, leprous all over, and defiled from my mother's womb; there is no part sound in me, from the crown of my head to the sole of my foot; 1 am not worthy to lift up my eyes towards God ; death and eternal damnation are my deserved portion... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 416 pages
...was ever reckoned a good liver ; and I think I have the bowels of compassion. I ask but justice, and from the crown of my head to the sole of my foot, I shall ever acknowledge myself, your Worship's humble Servant." The Justice stared, the Landlord and... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1822 - 412 pages
...was ever reckoned a good liver; and I think I have the bowels of* compassion. I ask but justice, and from the crown of my head to the sole of my foot, I shall ever acknowledge myself, your Worship's humble Servant." The Justice stared, the Landlord and... | |
 | John Neal - American literature - 1822 - 330 pages
...the earth. I yield myself up to thee. I was born, yea, I feel it, feel it in every vein, and artery, from the crown of my head, to the sole of my foot, that I was born for intellectual supremacy.' Wearied with the exhausting energy of his meditation,... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 518 pages
...was ever reckoned a good liver; and I think I have the bowels of compassion. I ask but justice, and from the crown of my head to the sole of my foot, I shall ever acknowledge myself your worship's humble servant." The justice stared, the landlord and... | |
 | 692 pages
...hath wrought for me from the storms and rocks of life. When in my childhoode I was struck with sores from the crown of my head to the sole of my foot , when my parents expected nothing but death for me ; yea, when they desired it as a great mercy for... | |
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From the crown of my head to the sole of my foot, I'm alive, I'm alive !" Any one who ever saw him will imagine the vivid relish he had in recognizing the fact. 
