 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 416 pages
...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...or perhaps any other person, was ever blessed with. She expired about six in the evening of this day ; and as soon as I am left alone, which is about eleven... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 418 pages
...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...or perhaps any other person, was ever blessed with. She expired \ jib.out six in the evening of this day ; and asTsoon as I am left alone, which is about... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 558 pages
...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...or perhaps any other person, was ever blessed with. She expired about six in the evening of this day ; and as soon as I am left alone, which is about eleven... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 562 pages
...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...or perhaps any other person, was ever blessed with. She expired about six in the evening of this day ; and as soon as I am left alone, which is about eleven... | |
 | 1893 - 846 pages
...eleven at night, he sits down to compile that (in the circumstances) extraordinary "character" of " the truest, most virtuous, and valuable friend that...perhaps any other person, was ever blessed with." A few passages from this strange finis to a strange story, began while Stella wns lying dead, and continued... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1850 - 900 pages
...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...or perhaps any other person, was ever blessed with. She expired about six in the evening of this day ; and as soon as I am left alone, which is about eleven... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Thomas Roscoe - 1859 - 686 pages
...eight o'clock at night, a servant brought me a note, with an account of the death of the truest, niost virtuous, and valuable friend that I, or perhaps any other person, was ever blessed with. She expired about six in the evening of this day ; and as soon as I am left alone, which is about eleven... | |
 | England - 1876 - 806 pages
...28, 1727-8, about eight o'clock at night a servant brought me a note with nn account of the death of the truest, most virtuous, and 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 «oon as I am left... | |
 | Alfred Webb - Ireland - 1878 - 616 pages
...tributes have ever been paid to the memory of a deceased friend than that penned by him at the time : " The truest, most virtuous, and valuable friend that...or perhaps any other person, was ever blessed with. I knew her from six 3'ears old, and had some share in her education, by directing what books she should... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - Authors, Irish - 1882 - 622 pages
...o'clock that he found himself alone with his grief, with no solace but to think on what" he had lost—" the truest, most virtuous, and valuable friend, that I, or perhaps any other person, was ever blessed witli."t In words that were perhaps never meant for any eye but his own, he wrote down his feelings,... | |
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... the truest, most virtuous, and valuable friend, that I, or perhaps any other person, was ever blessed with. 
