 | Alexander Pope - 1871 - 510 pàgines
...entreated her not to deny him one request, the last he should make. Upon her assurances of consenting to it, he told her, " My dear, it is only this, that...marry an old man again." I cannot help remarking, that sickness, which often destroys both wit and wisdom, yet seldom has power to remove that talent which... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1871 - 596 pàgines
...him one request, the last he should make. Upon her assurances of consenting to it, he told her, " ily dear, it is only this, that you will never marry an old man again." I cannot help remarking, that sickness, which often destroys both wit and wisdom, yet seldom has power to remove that talent which... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1872 - 660 pàgines
...entreated her not to deny him one request — the last he should make. Upon her assurances of consenting to it, he told her : ' My dear, it is only this —...marry an old man again.' I cannot help remarking that sickness, which often destroys both wit and wisdom, yet seldom has power to remove that talent which... | |
 | William Carew Hazlitt - 1872 - 390 pàgines
...entreated her not to deny him one request, the last he should make. Upon her assurances of consenting to it, he told her, ' My dear, it is only this, that...marry an old man again.' I cannot help remarking that sickness, which often destroys both wit and wisdom, yet seldom has power to remove that talent which... | |
 | William Carew Hazlitt - 1900 - 380 pàgines
...entreated her not to deny him one request, the last he should make. Upon her assurances of consenting to it, he told her, ' My dear, it is only this, that...marry an old man again.' I cannot help remarking that sickness, which often destroys both wit and wisdom, yet seldom has 486. power to remove that talent... | |
 | 1880 - 592 pàgines
...made her promise to grant him the request he was about to make, said with a sly twinkle in his eye : " My dear, it is only this — that you will never marry an old man again." Like Mercutio, a humorist to the last ! He was buried in a vault in St. Paul's. Covent Garden. He is... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1873 - 610 pàgines
...him one request — the last he should make. Upon her assurances of coosenting to it, he told her: t My dear, it is only this — that you will never marry an old man again.' I cannot help remarking that sickness, which often destroys both wit and wisdom, yet seldom has power to remove that talent which... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1901 - 414 pàgines
...entreated her not to deny him one request — the last he should make. Upon her assurances of consenting to it, he told her : ' My dear, it is only this — that yon will never marry an old man again.' I cannot help remarking that sickness, which often destroys... | |
 | William Wycherley - 1875 - 770 pàgines
...obtained her consent to a request he was about to make, explained it in the following words :— " Sly Here was the ruling passion of wit and humour strong in death ; though Pope, adding jest to jest, thinks... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1881 - 878 pàgines
...entreated her not to deny him one request — the last he should make. Upon her assurances of consenting to it, he told her: ' My dear, it is only this —...marry an old man again.' I cannot help remarking that sickness, which often destroys both wit and wisdom, yet seldom has power to remove that talent which... | |
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My dear, it is only this, that you will never marry an old man again. 
