 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 I am under both in body and mind. All I can say is, that I am not in torture ; but I daily and hourly...  The Poetical Works of Jonathan Swift - Page lxxxviiby Jonathan Swift - 1833Full view - About this book
 | Edwin Watts Chubb - 1914 - 464 pages
...and his melancholy verged on insanity. In 1740 he wrote to his cousin, Mrs. Whiteway: "I have been very miserable all night, and today extremely deaf...am under both in body and mind. 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... | |
 | 1911 - 1164 pages
...last, in 1740, comes one to his kind 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... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1926 - 396 pages
...SWIFT. 245. DAILY AND HOURLY EXPECTATION OF TORTURE. To Mrs. White-way. July 26, 1740. I have been very miserable all night, and to-day extremely deaf...am under both in body and mind. All I can say is, that I am not in torture, but I daily and hourly expect it. Pray let me know how your health is and... | |
 | Carl Van Doren - 1930 - 316 pages
...bull, and roared as loud for eight or nine hours." After three months he wrote her again. "I have been very miserable all night, and today extremely deaf...I am under both in body and mind. All I can say is that I am not in torture but I daily and hourly expect it. Pray let me know how your health is and... | |
 | 1897 - 966 pages
...¡t cut him off from all society. Five years before his death he wrote to his cousin : " I have been very miserable all night, and to-day extremely deaf...cannot express the mortification I am under both in 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 pages
...attacks of giddiness, deafness, and memory loss, Swift spent eight years waiting to die. "I have been very miserable all night, and 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... | |
 | A.W. Ward - 1967 - 438 pages
...Bath't Papers, Hist. MSS Comm., i, 254. And, iii 1740, he wrote to his cousin, Mrs Whiteway, I have been very miserable all night, and today extremely deaf...am under both in body and mind. All I can say is, that I am not in torture: bnt I daily and hourly expect it. I hardly understand one word I write. I... | |
 | 1897 - 1220 pages
...it cut him off from all society. Five years before his death he wrote to his cousin : " I have been very miserable all night, and to-day extremely deaf...cannot express the mortification I am under both in mind and body. I hardly understand one word I write. I am sure my days will be veiy few ; few and miserable... | |
 | 1882 - 614 pages
...years later he wrote the following pathetic letter to his old friend Mrs. Whiteway : — "I have been very miserable all night, and today extremely deaf...cannot express the mortification I am under, both of body and mind. All I can say is that I am not in torture, but I daily and hourly expect it. Pray... | |
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