 This day, being Sunday, January 28, 1727-8, about eight o'clock at night, a servant brought me a note, with an account of the death of the truest, most virtuous, and valuable friend that I, or perhaps any other person, was ever blessed with.  Eighteenth Century Vignettes: Second series - Pagina 19door Austin Dobson - 1894 - 300 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 418 pagina’s
...28th, 1727-8, about eight o'clock at night, a servant brought me a note, with an account of the death of the truest, most virtuous, and valuable friend,...or perhaps any other person, was ever blessed with. She expired \ jib.out six in the evening of this day ; and asTsoon as I am left alone, which is about... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 416 pagina’s
...28th, 1727-8, about eight o'clock at night, a servant brought me a note, with an account of the death of the truest, most virtuous, and valuable friend,...or perhaps any other person, was ever blessed with. She expired about six in the evening of this day ; and as soon as I am left alone, which is about eleven... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1812 - 438 pagina’s
...28th, 1727-8, about eight o'clock at night, a servant brought me a note, with an account of the death of the truest, most virtuous, and valuable friend, that I, or perhaps anyother person, was ever blessed with. She expired about six in the evening of this day ; and as soon... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 558 pagina’s
...28th, 1727-8, about eight o'clock at night, a servant brought me a note, with an account of the death of the truest, most virtuous, and valuable friend,...or perhaps any other person, was ever blessed with. She expired about six in the evening of this day ; and as soon as I am left alone, which is about eleven... | |
 | 1893 - 846 pagina’s
...good quality that can possibly accomplish a human creature." The date of this letter is July, 1726 ; but it was not until the beginning of 1728 that the...passages from this strange finis to a strange story, began while Stella wns lying dead, and continued after her The Influence of Climate on Race. funeral... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1850 - 900 pagina’s
...28, 1727-8, about eight o'clock at night, a servant brought me a note, with an account of the death of the truest, most virtuous, and valuable friend...or perhaps any other person, was ever blessed with. She expired about six in the evening of this day ; and as soon as I am left alone, which is about eleven... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Thomas Roscoe - 1859 - 686 pagina’s
...eight o'clock at night, a servant brought me a note, with an account of the death of the truest, niost virtuous, and valuable friend that I, or perhaps any other person, was ever blessed with. She expired about six in the evening of this day ; and as soon as I am left alone, which is about eleven... | |
 | 1876 - 806 pagina’s
...January 28, 1727-8, about eight o'clock at night a servant brought me a note with nn account of the death of the truest, most virtuous, and valuable friend that I, or perhaps any other person, ever was blessed with. She expired about six in the evening of this day; and as «oon as I am left... | |
 | Alfred Webb - 1878 - 616 pagina’s
...tributes have ever been paid to the memory of a deceased friend than that penned by him at the time : " The truest, most virtuous, and valuable friend that...or perhaps any other person, was ever blessed with. I knew her from six 3'ears old, and had some share in her education, by directing what books she should... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1882 - 622 pagina’s
...o'clock that he found himself alone with his grief, with no solace but to think on what" he had lost—" the truest, most virtuous, and valuable friend, that I, or perhaps any other person, was ever blessed witli."t In words that were perhaps never meant for any eye but his own, he wrote down his feelings,... | |
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