 | Sir Richard Steele - 1809 - 384 Seiten
...understanding ; and in that melancholy state he was carried to Carmarthen. Mr. Victor says, " I was told he retained his cheerful sweetness of temper to the last ; and would often be carried out in a summer's evening, where the country lads and lasses were assembled at their rural sports, —... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1814 - 494 Seiten
...late wife : — at his death it devolved to his two daughters, who were both well married. I was told he retained his cheerful sweetness of temper to the last ; and would often be carried out in a summer's evening, where the country lads and lasses were assembled at their rural sports, —... | |
 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - 1815 - 1092 Seiten
...faculties, and disabled him for all literary labour. It is stated of him that, irt this unhappy condition '* he retained his cheerful sweetness of temper to the last ; and would often be carried out in a summer's evening, where the country lads and lasses were assembled at their rural sports, and... | |
 | 1866 - 830 Seiten
...retirement, September 1, 1729. The last glimpse we have of him is given us by a Mr Virtue : " I was told that he retained his cheerful sweetness of temper to the last, and would often be carried out of a summer's evening, when the country lads and lasses were assembled at their rural sports, and with... | |
 | John Genest - 1832 - 670 Seiten
...of an " encumbered estate of £600 a year, which Sir " Richard obtained by his late wife 1 was told, he " retained his cheerful sweetness of temper to the " last ; and would often be carried out in a summer's " evening, where the country lads and lasses were " assembled at their rural sports —... | |
 | 1872 - 862 Seiten
...Bickers t äff passed the gloaming of his days. A writer uf the last century says: "I was told that he retained his cheerful sweetness of temper to the last, and would often be carried out of a Hummer's evening, where the conntry lads and lasses were assembled at their rural sports end with... | |
 | Henry Riddell Montgomery - 1865 - 352 Seiten
...that has been recorded by an authority previously quoted, must be presented. " I was told," says Mr Victor, " he retained his cheerful sweetness of temper to the last ; and would often be carried out of a summer's evening, where the country lads and lasses were assembled at their rural sports, —... | |
 | Henry Riddell Montgomery - 1865 - 356 Seiten
...that has been recorded by an authority previously quoted, must be presented. " I was told," says Mr Victor, " he retained his cheerful sweetness of temper to the last ; and would often be carried out of a summer's evening, where the country lads and lasses were assembled at their rural sports, —... | |
 | 1866 - 848 Seiten
...retirement, September 1, 1729. The last glimpse we have of him is given us by a Mr. Virtue: "I was told that he retained his cheerful sweetness of temper to the last, and would often be carried out of a summer's erening, when the country lads and lasses were assembled at their rural sports, and with... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1873 - 964 Seiten
...I. One who knew him, and received kindness from him in his last days, said of Steele, " I was told he retained his cheerful sweetness of temper to the last, and would often be carried out of a summer's evening where the country lads and lasses were assembled at their rural sports, and with... | |
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he retained his cheerful sweetness of temper to the last ; and would often be carried out in a summer's evening, when the country lads and lasses were assembled at their rural sports, and with his pencil give an order on his agent, the mercer, for a... 
