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" My God, my Father, and my Friend, Do not forsake me at my end. "
A Catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors of England, Scotland, and Ireland ... - Page 201
by Horace Walpole - 1806
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General Biography: Or, Lives, Critical and Historical, of the Most ..., Volume 3

John Aikin - Biography - 1802 - 686 pages
...in 1684. At the moment of expiring he repeated with great energy two lines out of his " Dies Irae," My God, my father, and my friend, Do not forsake me at my end ! The productions by which he obtained celebrity in his age, and which still form a part of the body...
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Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century: Anecdotes

John Nichols - Authors, English - 1814 - 796 pages
...inscription for him is very modest, being the last words of the late Lord Roscommon, who died in Ilaly : My GOD, my Father, and my Friend, Do not forsake me at my end." Caroden, Britannia, edit. 1790, vol. II. p. 159. Mr. Thomas Whiston was of Trinity College, Cambridge...
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A Biographical History of England: from Egbert the Great to the ..., Volume 4

James Granger - Great Britain - 1824 - 650 pages
...with the most fervent devotion two lines of his own version of Dies Ir<x. " My God, my father, and ray friend. Do not forsake me at my end." Lord Roscommon...his own time, as he probably would not have obtained had he been of inferior rank. Fenton partially remarks, " In his writings we view the image of a mind...
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New General Biographical Dictionary, Volume 7

Hugh James Rose - Biography - 1848 - 530 pages
...bowels. 'At the moment of expiring, he repeated with great energy two lines out of his Dies Iras, " My God, my father, and my friend, Do not forsake me at my end !" The principal of his productions is An Essay on Translated Verse, a didactic piece. His other pieces...
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Johnson's Lives of the British poets completed by W. Hazlitt, Volume 2

Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 356 pages
...with an energy of voice that expressed the most fervent devotion, two lines of his own version of Lies irce : " My God, my Father, and my Friend, Do not forsake me in my end." He died on 17th January, 1684, and was buried with great pomp in Westminster Abbey. " In...
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An index to familiar quotations selected principally from British authors ...

John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 pages
...The nymphs forsake the fountains, Efe'l forsake my love. GAY. — Acis and Galatea, Part II. Trio. My GOD, my father, and my friend, Do not forsake me at my end ! ROSCOMMON. — His last words on his death-bed. See Fenton's Ed. of Waller's Poems. FORTUNE. —...
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Familiar Quotations: Being an Attempt to Trace to Their Source Passages and ...

John Bartlett - Quotations - 1874 - 798 pages
...of decency is want of sense. Ibid. Line 113. The multitude is always in the wrong. Ibid. Line 184. My God, my Father, and my Friend, Do not forsake me at my end. Translation of Dies Ira. ROGER L'ESTRANGE. 1616-1704. Though this may be play to you, 'T is death to...
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Familiar Quotations ...

John Bartlett - Quotations - 1875 - 890 pages
...decency is want of sense. Ibid. Line 113. The multitude is always in the wrong. • Ibid. Line 184. My God, my Father, and my Friend, Do not forsake me at my end. Translation of Dies Ira. ROGER L'ESTRANGE. 1616-1704. Though this may be play to you, T is death to...
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The Dublin university magazine

University magazine - 1876 - 828 pages
...suddenly carried off, about the year 1688. He died piously, and in his last moments exclaimed : — " My God, my Father, and my Friend, Do not forsake me at my end." He was interred amid great pomp at Westminster Abbey, regretted and admired. The poets of Roscommon's...
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The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal, Volume 88

1876 - 892 pages
...suddenly carried off, about the year 1688. He died piously, and in his last moments exclaimed: — " My God, my Father, and my Friend, Do not forsake me at my end." He was interred amid great pomp at Westminster Abbey, regretted and admired. The poets of Roscommon's...
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