...elapsed between the day she died and the day she was buried. "This day, being Sunday Jan. zS, 1727-28, about eight o'clock at night a servant brought me...the death of the truest, most virtuous, and valuable />•/>«</ that I, or perhaps any other person, was ever blessed with." " This is the night of her...

...same. He addresses her as the 'kindest and wisest of his friends.' He described her in his Memoir as ' the truest, most virtuous and valuable friend that...perhaps any other person, was ever blessed with.' In all his letters he alludes to her in similar terms. In the Diary at Holyhead she is his ' dearest...

...Mr. Wycherley by name, and his play. This is all, and so I waked. ON THE DEATH OF MRS. JOHNSON. THIS day, being Sunday, January 28, 1727-8, about eight o'clock at night, a servant brought ine a note, with an account of the death of the truest, most virtuous, and valuable friend that I,...

...according to his custom, at the Deanery. "About eight o'clock at night," so ho begins his eulogy, " a servant brought me a note, with an account of the...expired about six in the evening of this day ; and [now] as soon as I am left alone, which is about eleven at night, I resolve, for my own satisfaction,...

...to his custom, at the Deanery. "About eight o'clock at night," so he begins his eulogy, " a wervant brought me a note, with an account of the death of...truest, most virtuous, and valuable friend that I, or jxsrhaps any other person, was ever blessed with. She cxpin d ixbout six in the evening of this day;...

...forty-seven years. In a touching memoir commenced on the night of her death, Swift described her as "the truest, most virtuous, and valuable friend that...perhaps any other person, was ever blessed with." Swift had now reached the age of sixty, and he began to take less interest in public movements. One...

...removed Stella from Swift, and he was left alone to think of what he had lost, he described her as " the truest, most virtuous, and valuable friend, that...perhaps any other person, was ever blessed with." Henceforward he must strive and suffer alone. The tenderness, of which his attachment to Stella had...

...midnight, in the dreary Deanery of St. Patrick's, sat the aged Swift in agony, writing these words : "This day being Sunday, January ;28, 1727-8, about eight...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 soon as I am left alone,...

...Swift's account of his dear friend's character and virtues. " This day, being Sunday, January 28, 1728, about eight o'clock at night, a servant brought me...or perhaps any other person, was ever blessed with. . . . " Never was any of her sex born with better gifts of the mind, or who more improved them by reading...

...at eleven at night, he sits down to compile that (in the circumstances) extraordinary ' character ' of ' the truest, most virtuous, and valuable friend...perhaps any other person, was ever blessed with.' A few passages from this strange Finis to a strange story, begun while Stella was lying dead, and continued...