 I am grieved to the very soul, to hear you have any subject for affliction; but am very certain, that in being deprived of your divine presence, I endure a more mortal stab than any loss you have sustained can possibly inflict.  The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless ... - Page 30by Eliza Fowler Haywood - 1768Full view - About this book
 | Catherine Ingrassia - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 248 pages
...Haywood characters use with regularity: I am grieved to the very soul, to hear you have any subject for affliction; but am very certain, that in being deprived of your divine presence, I endure a more mortal stab than any loss you have sustained can possibly inflict. - 1 am... | |
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