 I am so stupid and confounded, that I cannot express the mortification I am under both in body and mind. All I caB say is, that I am not in torture; but I daily and hourly expect it. Pray let me know how your health is, and your family. I hardly understand...  The Works - Pàgina 316per Jonathan Swift - 1803Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | John Churton Collins - 1902 - 312 pàgines
...express himself on paper. ' I am so stupid and confounded,' he writes to Mrs. Whiteway in July, 1740, 'that I cannot express the mortification I am under both in body and mind. All I can say is I am not in torture, but I daily and hourly expect it. I am sure my days will be very few, few and... | |
 | 1911 - 1142 pàgines
...niece, Mrs White way, of heartrending pathos: — " [ have been very miserable all night, and to-day extremely deaf and full of pain. I am so stupid and...confounded that I cannot express the mortification 1 am under both of body and mind. All I can say is that 1 am not in torture; but 1 daily and hourly... | |
 | 1911 - 1124 pàgines
...niece, Mrs Whiteway, of heartrending pathos: — " I have been very miserable all night, and to-day extremely deaf and full of pain. I am so stupid and...confounded that I cannot express the mortification 1 am under both of body and mind. All I can say is that I am not in torture; but I daily and hourly... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - 1912 - 626 pàgines
...And, in 1740, he wrote to his cousin, Mrs Whiteway, I have been very miserable all night, and today extremely deaf and full of pain. I am so stupid and...not in torture : but I daily and hourly expect it. I hardly understand one word I write. I am sure my days will be very few, few and miserable they must... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - 1912 - 636 pàgines
...Whiteway, I hare been very miserable all night, and today extremely deaf and full of pain. I am go stupid and confounded that I cannot express the mortification...not in torture : but I daily and hourly expect it. I hardly understand one word I write. I am sure my days will be very few, few and miserable they must... | |
 | Edwin Watts Chubb - 1914 - 488 pàgines
...insanity. In 1740 he wrote to his cousin, Mrs. Whiteway : "I have been very miserable all night, and today extremely deaf and full of pain. I am so stupid and...not in torture: but I daily and hourly expect it. I hardly understand one word I write. I am sure my days will be very few, few and miserable they must... | |
 | 1911 - 1168 pàgines
...niece, Mrs Whiteway, of heartrending pathos:— " I have been very miserable all night, and to-day extremely deaf and full of pain. I am so stupid and confounded that 1 cannot express the mortification I am under both of body and mind. All I can say is that I am not... | |
 | Shane Leslie - 1928 - 384 pàgines
...excessive pain although not the one-thousandth part of what I suffered all last night," and again, "all I can say is that I am not in torture but I daily and hourly expect it. I hardly understand one word I write. I am sure my days will be very few. Few and miserable they must... | |
 | 1897 - 962 pàgines
...years before his death he wrote to his cousin : " I have been very miserable all night, and to-day insistence upon the great principle of adaptation, so important mind and body. I hardly understand one word I write. I am sure my days will be very few ; few and miserable... | |
 | George Howe Colt - 1992 - 580 pàgines
...to-day extremely deaf and full of pain," he wrote to his niece in 1740 at the age of seventy-three. "I am so stupid and confounded that I cannot express the mortification I am under both of body and soul." Swift refused to commit suicide because he believed it was a sin. Nevertheless,... | |
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