...mind at this period of his existence. In the plenitude of his ambition, he stopped one day to enquire in what manner he could obtain his magnificent ends....and bad jokes till we are forty; and then, with the moat brilliant success, the prospect of gout and a coronet. Besides, to succeed as an advocate, I must...

...Communing with himself as to how " he could obtain his magnificent ends/' Vivian Grey thus speaks: "The Bar, pooh! law and bad jokes till we are forty,...I must be a great lawyer, and to be a great lawyer 1 must give up my chance of being a great man. The Services in 44 war time are fit only for desperadoes...

...ponders on his future career, and thus estimates the paths to fame open to him : ' The Bar — pish ! law and bad jokes till we are forty, and then, with...brilliant success, the prospect of gout and a coronet. . . . The Services in war time are only fit for desperadoes (and that truly am I), but in peace they...

...the House of Commons (Vote of Thanks to the Allied Armies), December 15, 1855. BAR. The Bar—pooh ! Law and bad jokes till we are forty ; and then, with...brilliant success, the prospect of gout and a coronet.— Vivian Grey. BARONETCY. A baronetcy has become a distinction of the middle class : our physician, for...

...professors call it, in his mind, and was not innocent of a fling at his uncle, when he wrote in Vivian Grey: "The Bar — pooh! Law and bad jokes till we are forty;...brilliant success, the prospect of gout and a coronet." An early acquaintance formed during his stay at Gibraltar in 1830 afforded him another expression of...

...must discover a profession which brought fame to the adventurous. The Bar was little to his mind. ' s y said Vivian Grey, speaking for his author, ' to be a great lawyer I must give up my chances of being...

...Men destined to the highest places should beware of badinage. — ('Bertie Tremaine') Endymion. BAR. The Bar — pooh! Law and bad jokes till we are forty;...brilliant success, the prospect of gout and a coronet. — Vivian Grey. BARONETCY. and I dare say some of our tradesmen — brewers or people of that sort....

...was "entered" at Lincoln's Inn, but the Bar never attracted. " Pooh ! " as he laughed in Vivian Grey, "law and bad jokes till we are forty, and then, with...brilliant success, the prospect of gout and a coronet ! " He panted for action. Already in his boyish musings over the pages of Bolingbroke, and of that...

...his life long but law. Another great author expressed a very similar opinion of this profession. " The Bar — pooh ! Law and bad jokes till we are forty,...brilliant success the prospect of gout and a coronet," said Benjamin Disraeli. " Besides, to succeed as an advocate I must be a great lawyer, and to be a...

...abilities. But the effort was unsuccessful and, like Vivian Grey, he doubtless said to himself : " The Bar ! Pooh ! Law and bad jokes till we are forty, and then, with the most brilliant success, the chance of gout and a coronet. Besides to succeed as an advocate, I must be a great lawyer ; and to...