...express himself on paper. ' I am so stupid and confounded,' he writes to Mrs. Whiteway in July, 1740, 'that I cannot express the mortification I am under both in body and mind. All I can say is I am not in torture, but I daily and hourly expect it. I am sure my days will be very few, few and...

...faculties; at last, in 1740, comes one to his kind niece, Mrs Whiteway, of heartrending pathos: — " I have been very miserable all night, and to-day extremely...confounded that I cannot express the mortification 1 am under both of body and mind. All I can say is that I am not in torture; but I daily and hourly...

...faculties; at last, in 1740, comes one to his land niece, Mrs White way, of heartrending pathos: — " [ have been very miserable all night, and to-day extremely...confounded that I cannot express the mortification 1 am under both of body and mind. All I can say is that 1 am not in torture; but 1 daily and hourly...

...of Bath's Papers, Hist. MSS Comm., i, 254. 7—2 And, in 1740, he wrote to his cousin, Mrs Whiteway, I have been very miserable all night, and today extremely...not in torture : but I daily and hourly expect it. I hardly understand one word I write. I am sure my days will be very few, few and miserable they must...

...Bath' i Papen, Hist. MSS Comm., i, 254. And, in 1740, he wrote to his cousin, Mrs Whiteway, I hare been very miserable all night, and today extremely deaf and full of pain. I am go stupid and confounded that I cannot express the mortification I am under both in body and mind....

...deafness increased, and his melancholy verged on insanity. In 1740 he wrote to his cousin, Mrs. Whiteway: "I have been very miserable all night, and today extremely...not in torture: but I daily and hourly expect it. I hardly understand one word I write. I am sure my days will be very few, few and miserable they must...

...faculties; at last, in 1740, comes one to his kind niece, Mrs Whiteway, of heartrending pathos:— " I have been very miserable all night, and to-day extremely...and full of pain. I am so stupid and confounded that 1 cannot express the mortification I am under both of body and mind. All I can say is that I am not...

...excessive pain although not the one-thousandth part of what I suffered all last night," and again, "all I can say is that I am not in torture but I daily and hourly expect it. I hardly understand one word I write. I am sure my days will be very few. Few and miserable they must...

...till at last ¡t cut him off from all society. Five years before his death he wrote to his cousin : " I have been very miserable all night, and to-day extremely...cannot express the mortification I am under both in mind and body. I hardly understand one word I write. I am sure my days will be very few ; few and miserable...

...liable to attacks of giddiness, deafness, and memory loss, Swift spent eight years waiting to die. "I have been very miserable all night, and to-day extremely deaf and full of pain," he wrote to his niece in 1740 at the age of seventy-three. "I am so stupid and confounded that I cannot...