 This day, being Sunday, January 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 any other person ever was blessed with.  The Works of Jonathan Swift: Containing Additional Letters, Tracts, and ... - Página 266de Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott - 1883Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
 | 1920 - 922 páginas
...at least the inner seal of his self-imposed reserves, he penned that discreet yet devoted panegyric of "the truest, most virtuous and valuable friend...or perhaps any other person, was ever blessed with. . . I knew her from six years old, and had some share in her education, by directing what books she... | |
 | A. W. Ward - 1967 - 436 páginas
...In the Character of Mrs Johnson which Swift began to write on the night of her death, he calls her 'the truest, most virtuous and valuable friend that...or perhaps any other person was ever blessed with.' After his death, a lock of her hair was found in his desk in a paper marked ' Only a woman's hair.'... | |
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