 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
 | Verlyn Klinkenborg, Herbert Cahoon, Pierpont Morgan Library - 1981 - 274 страници
...For almost thirty-five years Stella and Swift were the closest of friends, for she was, as he said, "a person of my own rearing and instructing, from...quality that can possibly accomplish a human creature." She was also the inspiration for much prose and poetry by Swift. While he negotiated with Harley, St.... | |
 | A. W. Ward - 1967 - 436 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. . . . Yiolent friendship is much more lasting and as much engaging as violent love. He returned to... | |
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