Passages from the Diary of a Late Physician, المجلد 2William Blackwood & Sons, 1838 |
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... felt under some strange unaccountable influence , which , had he reflected a little , he would have discovered to arise merely from an excit- able nervous temperament , operating on an imagination peculiarly attuned to sympathies with ...
... felt under some strange unaccountable influence , which , had he reflected a little , he would have discovered to arise merely from an excit- able nervous temperament , operating on an imagination peculiarly attuned to sympathies with ...
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... felt his whole frame pervaded by a cold shiver- " Poor T- - ! Horrid fate ! " - On hearing him men- tion T- -'s name , we all looked simultaneously at one another , but without speaking ; for a suspicion crossed our minds , that his ...
... felt his whole frame pervaded by a cold shiver- " Poor T- - ! Horrid fate ! " - On hearing him men- tion T- -'s name , we all looked simultaneously at one another , but without speaking ; for a suspicion crossed our minds , that his ...
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... strange sensa . tion seized her " -to use her own words . She felt cold and nervous . The bedroom was both spacious and gloomy ; and she did not relish the 66 The next morning , about eleven , saw me again THE SPECTRE - SMITTEN . 11 NOTE, •
... strange sensa . tion seized her " -to use her own words . She felt cold and nervous . The bedroom was both spacious and gloomy ; and she did not relish the 66 The next morning , about eleven , saw me again THE SPECTRE - SMITTEN . 11 NOTE, •
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... felt conscious that the lives of all of us depended on my conduct ; and I devoutly thank God for the measure of tolerable self - possession which was vouchsafed to me at that dreadful moment . I continued standing like a statue ...
... felt conscious that the lives of all of us depended on my conduct ; and I devoutly thank God for the measure of tolerable self - possession which was vouchsafed to me at that dreadful moment . I continued standing like a statue ...
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... felt convinced that his fancy was occupied with some one individual image of horror , which had scared him into madness , and now clung to his disordered faculties like a fiend . He often talked about " spec- tres , " " spectral ; " and ...
... felt convinced that his fancy was occupied with some one individual image of horror , which had scared him into madness , and now clung to his disordered faculties like a fiend . He often talked about " spec- tres , " " spectral ; " and ...
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الصفحة 31 - In short, herein seems to lie the difference between idiots and madmen, that madmen put wrong ideas together, and so make wrong propositions, but argue and reason right from them; but idiots make very few or no propositions, and reason scarce * at all.
الصفحة 342 - And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.
الصفحة 45 - ... of the benches near the fire-place, where he sat down, without taking off his great-coat, and crossing his gloved hands on the knob of a high walkingstick, he rested his chin on them, and in that attitude continued throughout the evening. He removed his hat when the chairman made his appearance; and I never saw a .finer head in my life. The crown was quite bald, but the base was fringed round as it were, with a little soft, glossy, silver-hued hair, which, in the distance, looked like a faint...
الصفحة 296 - He had become stupified, and could not fully comprehend the enormous ruin which he had precipitated upon himself — crushing at once " mind, body, and estate." His motions seemed actuated by a species of diabolical influence. He saw the nest of hornets which he had lit upon, yet would not forsake the spot ! Alas, Beauchamp was not the first who has felt the fatal fascination of play, the utter obliviousness of consequences which it induces ! The demons who fluttered about him no longer thought of...
الصفحة 124 - I see them lost. Some the prevailing malice of the great, Unhappy men, or adverse fate, Sunk deep into the gulfs of an afflicted state. But more, far more, a numberless prodigious train, Whilst Virtue courts them, but, alas!
الصفحة 36 - Thou hast slept here forty years, by what enchantress, as yet it is not known : and behold the twig to which thou laidest thy head, is now become a tree. Callest thou not Eumenides to remembrance ? Endymion.