| Justin McCarthy, Justin Huntly McCarthy - 1884 - 434 páginas
...long ceased to take any active part in literature. Swift deplores, in a letter to an acquaintance, ' the death of our friend Mr. Congreve, whom I loved from my youth, and who surely, besides his other talents, was a very agreeable companion.' Swift adds that Congreve ' had... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1885 - 322 páginas
...it should have happened to be true I would have desired to have had access to him, as the situation I am in requires. But this renews the grief for the...Mr. Congreve, whom I loved from my youth, and who, surely, beside his other talents, was a very agreeable companion. He had the misfortune to squander... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1885 - 354 páginas
...grief for the death of our friend Mr. Congreve, whom I loved from my youth, and who, surely, beside his other talents, was a very agreeable companion. He had the misfortune to squander away a very good constitution in his younger days ; and I think a man of sense and merit like... | |
| Howard Williams, Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope - 1886 - 634 páginas
...was a false report. Lord Carteretdid not cease to be Lord Lieutenant of Ireland till May, 1730.—E. renews the grief for the death of our friend Mr. Congreve, whom I loved from my youth, and who surely, besides his other talents, was a very agreeable companion. He had the misfortune to squander... | |
| Edmund Gosse - 1888 - 220 páginas
...On the i3th of February, 1729, Swift summed up the position in his wholesome and incisive way :— This renews the grief for the death of our friend Mr. Congreve, whom I loved from my youth, and who, surely, beside his other talents, was a very agreeable companion. lie had the misfortune to squander... | |
| Edmund Gosse - 1888 - 214 páginas
...grief for the death of our friend Mr. Congreve, whom I loved from my youth, and who, surely, beside his other talents, was a very agreeable companion. He had the misfortune to squander away a very good constitution in his younger days ; and I think a man of sense and merit like... | |
| James Hay - 1891 - 390 páginas
...to dinner. At last, when Congreve died, Swift writes thus to Pope : - Dublin, February I3th, 1728-9. This renews the grief for the death of our friend,...Mr. Congreve, whom I loved from my youth, and who, surely, beside his other talents, was a very agreeable companion. He had the misfortune to squander... | |
| James Hay - 1891 - 390 páginas
...grief for the death of our friend, Mr. Congreve, whom I loved from my youth, and who, surely, beside his other talents, was a very agreeable companion. He had the misfortune to squander away a very good constitution in his younger days, and I think a man of sense and merit like... | |
| Rudolf Brotanek - 1896 - 752 páginas
...future." Als ein schöner Nachruf an den verstorbenen Freund seien hier Swifts Worte wiedergegeben: „This renews the grief for the death of our friend...Mr. Congreve, whom I loved from my youth, and who, surely, beside bis other talents, was a very agreeable companion. He had the misfortune to squander... | |
| Reginald Brimley Johnson - 1897 - 304 páginas
...it should have happened to be true, I would have desired to have had access to him as the situation I am in requires. But this renews the grief for the...Mr. Congreve, whom I loved from my youth, and who surely, beside his other talents, was a very agreeable companion. He had the misfortune to squander... | |
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