...of agitation rushed from the room, when the Archbishop said to Delany, 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,...

...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 ;...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...

...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 ;...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...

...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,...

...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...

...talk of mental imbecility he never let fall an allusion to it. upon asking the reason, he said : — " You have just met the most unhappy man on earth ;...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...

...tears, and inquired the reason : '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.' The tragedy deepens as it draws to a close. Without explaining his conduct, he continued his visits to...

...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 ;...never ask a question." The most unhappy man on earth — Mtserrimus — what a character of him ! And at this time all the great wits of England had been...

...in his countenance, upon which the Archbishop said to Delany, " You have just met the most unhappv man on earth ; but on the subject of his wretchedness you must never ask a question." character of him ! And at this time all the great wits of England had been at his feet. All Ireland...

...he entered Swift rushed out with a distracted countenance. King was in tears, and said to Delany, " You have just met the most unhappy man on earth ;...of his wretchedness you must never ask a question." This has been connected with a guess made by somebody that Swift had discovered Stella to be his natural...