 | 1831 - 624 páginas
...little prepared. ' Like a cord at its full stretch, it required but the slightest force to break it. He felt assured that his constitution had been irretrievably...palpitations, and anxieties, hourly afflicted him. " Do you suppose," he said, with impatience, " that I wish for life ? I have grown heartily sick of... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1831 - 620 páginas
...little prepared. ' Like a cord at its full stretch, it required but the slightest force to break it. He felt assured that his constitution had been irretrievably...palpitations, and anxieties, hourly afflicted him. " Do you suppose," he said, with impatience, " that I wish for life ? I have grown heartily sick of... | |
 | John Angell James - 1862 - 486 páginas
...man's animal nature, struggled for pre-eminence. One who was a spectator of the scene thus writes : "He felt assured that his constitution had been irretrievably...and that his muscular power was gone. Flashes before his eyes, palpitations and anxieties, hourly afflicted him. " Do you suppose," he said, with impatience,... | |
 | Richard Edgcumbe - 1909 - 456 páginas
...been ruined ; that he was a worn-out man ; and that his muscular power was gone. Flashes before his eyes, palpitations and anxieties, hourly afflicted...assistance. His nervous system was, in fact, in a continual state of erethism, which was certainly augmented by the low, debilitating diet which Dr.... | |
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That wonderful elasticity of disposition, that continued flow of wit, and that facility of jest, by which his conversation had been so highly distinguished, returned only at distant intervals; for he fell into a state of melancholy. . . . Flashes before... 