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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. "
American Monthly Knickerbocker - Página 176
1853
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The Literature of Society, Volumen2

Mrs. A. T. Thomson - 1862 - 356 páginas
...the subject, and found the archbishop in tears ; upon inquiring the reason, Archbishop King said : ' You have just met the most unhappy man on earth ;...his wretchedness you must never ask a question.' The silence of his friends was indeed such, that to this day Swift's misery and his conduct have never...
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Lives of wits and humourists, Volumen1

John Timbs - 1862 - 422 páginas
...marks of strong terror and agitation in his countenance ; upon which the Archbishop said to Delany, " You have just met the most unhappy man on earth ;...of his wretchedness you must never ask a question." Yet, at this time all the great wits of England had been at his feet. All Ireland had shouted after...
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Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World

Jonathan Swift, John Francis Waller - 1865 - 414 páginas
...with a countenance of distraction. He found the archbishop in tears. "You have just met," said he, "the most unhappy man on earth ; but on the subject...his wretchedness you must never ask a question." The wretchedness of both those whom he had fascinated was not less than his own ; each knew she had a rival...
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The British Quarterly Review, Volumen20

Henry Allon - 1854 - 622 páginas
...passed him without speaking. He found the Archbishop in tears, and, upon asking the reason, he said, 'You have just met the most unhappy man on earth ;...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...
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The Four Georges: The English Humorists of the Eighteenth Century

William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 414 páginas
...marks of strong terror and agitation in his countenance, upon which the Archbishop said to Delany, " You have just met the most unhappy man on earth; but...of his wretchedness you must never ask a question." statesmen, and the greatest poets of his day, had applauded him, and done him homage ; and at this...
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History of English Literature, Volumen2

Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - 568 páginas
...grief, and a distracted air. ' Sir,' said the prelate, ' you have just met the most unhappy man upon earth ; but on the subject of his wretchedness you must never ask a question.' Esther Johnson died. Swift's anguish, the spectres by which he was haunted, the horrors in which the...
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History of English literature, tr. by H. van Laun, Volumen2

Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1871 - 570 páginas
...grief, and a distracted air. ' Sir,' said the prelate, ' you have just met the most unhappy man upon earth ; but on the subject of his wretchedness you must never ask a question.' Esther Johnson died. Swift's anguish, the spectres by which he was haunted, the horrors in which the...
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Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World

Jonathan Swift - 1872 - 444 páginas
...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...
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Miscellanies...

William Makepeace Thackeray - 1873 - 610 páginas
...marks of strong terror and agitation in his countenance, upon which the Archbishop said to Delany, "Yon have just met the most unhappy man on earth ; but...And at this time all the great wits of England had bcen at his fcet. All Ireland had shouted after him, and worshipped him as a liberator, a saviour,...
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The National quarterly review, ed. by E.I. Sears

Edward Isidore Sears - 1874 - 426 páginas
...of agitation rushed from the room, when the Archbishop said to Dclany, his voice broken with sobs, " You have just met the most unhappy man on earth; but...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,...
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