 | Jonathan Swift - 1872 - 444 страница
...Archbishop in tears, and upon asking the reason, he said, " You have just met the most unhappy man upon earth, but on the subject of his wretchedness you must never ask a question." Delany's inference from these words was, that Swift, after his union, had discovered too near a consanguinity... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1873 - 610 страница
...agitation in his countenance, upon which the Archbishop said to Delany, "Yon have just met the most unhappy man on earth ; but on the subject of his wretchedness you must never ask a question." The most unhappy man on earth ; — Miserrimus — what a character of him ! And at this time all the... | |
 | David Masson - 1874 - 404 страница
...the terrors of recollection, the evenings horrible by those of anticipation, and leaving but a cairn hour at full mid-day ? There was a secret in Swift's...brain), and his lifelong certainty that it would end in idiocy or madness, are the true explanation of this interview and of the mystery which it shrouds.... | |
 | Austin Dobson - 1874 - 332 страница
...of his age" he remains to posterity, in the words of Archbishop King, as reported by Dr. Delany, ' the most miserable man on earth, but on the subject...of his wretchedness you must never ask a question.' 89. Berkeley, Arbuthnot. — The first of thesewriters, George Berkeley (1685-1753), Bishop of Cloyne,... | |
 | David Mather Masson - 1874 - 390 страница
...the archbishop in tears, and, upon asking the reason, he said, ' You have just met the most unhappy man on earth ; but on the subject of his wretchedness you must never ask a question.' " What are we to make of this ? Nay more, what are we to make of it when we find that the alleged marriage... | |
 | Edward Isidore Sears - 1874 - 426 страница
...when the Archbishop said to Dclany, his voice broken with sobs, " You have just met the most unhappy man on earth; but on the subject of his wretchedness you must never ask a question." "The history of his conduct with regard to every woman to whom he paid particular court," writes Howitt,... | |
 | David Masson - 1874 - 400 страница
...the archbishop in tears, and, upon asking the reason, he said, ' You have just met the most unhappy man on earth; but on the subject of his wretchedness you must never ask a question.'" What are we to make of this ? Nay more, what are we to make of it when we find that the alleged marriage... | |
 | 1874 - 850 страница
...when the Archbishop said to Delany, his voice broken with sobs, " You have just met the most unhappy man on earth; but on the subject of his wretchedness you must never ask a question." "The history of his conduct with regard to every woman to whom he paid particular court," writes Howitt,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1879 - 466 страница
...Archbishop in tears, and upon asking the reason, he said, " You have just met the mo»t unhappy man upon earth, but on the subject of his wretchedness you must never ask a question." Delany's inference from these words was, that Swift, after his union, had dikcovered too near a consanguinity... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1880 - 388 страница
...fall an allusion to it. upon asking the reason, he said : — " You have just met the most unhappy man on earth ; but on the subject of his wretchedness, you must never ask a question." This anecdote has supplied Swift's biographers with a foundation on which to build the most appalling... | |
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You have just met the most unhappy man on earth; but on the subject of his wretchedness you must never ask a question. 
