...Blatt folgenden Inhaltes : Dear Bob, I have not anything to leave thee, to perpetuate my memory bnt two helpless girls; look upon them sometimes, and...him that was to the last moment of his life thine, G. Farqiihar. Wilks gab zunächst für jedes der beiden Mädchen einen Benefiz-Abend und verwendete...

...Unter seinen Papieren fand man ein für seinen Freund Robert Wilks bestimmtes Blatt folgenden Inhaltes: Dear Bob, I have not anything to leave thee, to perpetuate my memory bat two helpless girls; look upon them sometimes, and think of h im that was to the last moment of...

...influence and that of Sir John Vanbrugh that this brilliant girl was introduced upon the stage, in 1699, by Rich, at the King's theatre. Anne was only sixteen...Farquhar." The story of this brief and bright life aeems a fit prelude to the sparkling play of The Inconstant, in which it is easy to perceive the author's...

...chequered career, lay dying, in 1707, he wrote this note to Wilks: " DEAR BOB, — I have not any thing to leave thee to perpetuate my memory but two helpless...think of him that was, to the last moment of his life, thine,1 " GEORGE FABQUHAB." The actor did not disappoint his friend's expectations, and the children...

...have died. He left his two children to the care of his friend Wilks: — " Dear Bob, I have nothing to leave thee to perpetuate my memory but two helpless...the last moment of his life thine, GEORGE FARQUHAR." Wilks obtained a benefit at the theatre for the dramatist's widow, and the daughters had a pension...

...triumphant success. A last note to the friend of his brief life, Wilks, was found among his papers : Dear Bob, I have not anything to leave thee to perpetuate...helpless girls; look upon them sometimes, and think on him who was to the last moment of his life thine, G. Farquhar. An epilogue fittingly spoken by a...

...Ewald, in 1892 edn.— SHARP, R. FARQUHAKSON, 1897, A Dictionary of English Authors, p. 96. PERSONAL DEAR BOB, I have not anything to leave thee, to perpetuate...him that was, to the last moment of his life, thine. — FARQUHAR, GEORGE, 1707, Letter to Wilks'. Mr. Farquhar had now been about a twelve-month married,...

...to the friend of his brief life, Wilks, was found among his papers: Dear Bob, I have not anything 1 to leave thee to perpetuate my memory, but two helpless girls; look upon them sometimes, and think on him who was to the last moment of his life thine, G-. Farquhar. An epilogue fittingly spoken by...

...with the dread of leaving his family unprovided for. " Dear Bob," he wrote to Wilks at the last, " I have not anything to leave thee to perpetuate my...helpless girls ; look upon them sometimes and think on him that was to the last moment of his life thine." Wilks obtained a benefit for Farquhar's family,...

...but what are we to think were his feelings when he wrote the following death-bed letter to Wilks:— "DEAR BOB, "I have not anything to leave thee, to...last moment of his life, thine. GEORGE FARQUHAR." • This simple brevity, and even the gay familiarity of the address, have something in them affecting...