 I think there is not a greater folly than that of entering into too strict and particular a friendship, with the loss of which a man must be absolutely miserable ; but especially at an age when it is too late to engage in a new friendship. Besides, this...  Letters. Index - Страница 47по Jonathan Swift - 1801Пълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | Jonathan Swift - 1901 - 682 страници
...in similar terms of the " younger of the two " " oldest and dearest friends I have in the world." " This was a person of my own rearing and instructing...quality that can possibly accomplish a human creature. ... I know not what I am saying ; but believe me that violent friendship is much more lasting and as... | |
 | John Churton Collins - 1902 - 312 страници
...greater folly than that of entering into too strict and particular friendship, with the loss of which a man must be absolutely miserable, but especially at...person of my own rearing and instructing from childhood ; but, pardon me, I know not what I am saying, but, believe me, that friendship is much more lasting... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1902 - 448 страници
...strict and particular a friendship, with the loss of which a man must be absolutely miserable. . . . Besides, this was a person of my own rearing and instructing...quality that can possibly accomplish a human creature." The date of this letter is July, 1726; but it was not until the beginning of 1728 that the blow came... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1907 - 444 страници
...greater folly than that of entering into too strict and particular a friendship, with the loss of which a man must be absolutely miserable, but especially at...when it is too late to engage in a new friendship." That morbid melancholy to which he had ever been subject assumed a darker hue and a more unremitting... | |
 | Walter Swain Hinchman, Francis Barton Gummere - 1908 - 610 страници
...tragedy of his life. On hearing of her illness, while he was in London in 1726, he wrote to a friend : " This was a person of my own rearing and instructing from childhood, who excelled in every good 1 Swift wrote for Lady Berkeley bis Meditations upon a Broom-Stick, published in 1704. quality that... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - 1912 - 636 страници
...melancholy scene.' To another friend he said : This was a person of my own rearing and instruction from childhood, who excelled in every good quality that can possibly accomplish a human creature. . . . Violent friendship is much more lasting and as much engaging as violent love. He returned to... | |
 | George Pierce Baker, Henry Barrett Huntington - 1925 - 638 страници
...greater folly than that of entering into too strict and particular friendship, with the loss of which a man must be absolutely miserable, but especially at...person of my own rearing and instructing from childhood ; but, pardon me, I know not what I am saying, but, believe me, that violent friendship is much more... | |
 | 1883 - 1060 страници
...greater folly than that of entering into too strict and particular friendship, with the loss of which a man must be absolutely miserable, but especially at...of my own rearing and instructing from childhood; but, pardon me, I know not what I am saying, but, believe me, that violent friendship is much more... | |
 | 1893 - 866 страници
...strict and particular a friendship, with the loss of which a man must be absolutely miserable. . . . Besides, this was a person of my own rearing and instructing from childhood who excelled in every gooil quality that can possibly accomplish a. human creature." The date of this letter is July, 1726... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1872 - 378 страници
...greater folly than that of entering into too strict and particular a friendship, with the loss of which a man must be absolutely miserable, but especially at...when it is too late to engage in a new friendship.' That morbid melancholy to which he had ever been subject assumed a darker hue and a more unremitting... | |
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