The Infirmities of Genius Illustrated by Referring the Anomalies in the Literary Character to the Habits and Constitutional Peculiarities of Men of Genius, 2. kötetSaunders and Otley, 1833 |
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abstemiousness acquaintance advantage alluded amiable apoplexy appears attack attention became biographer bleeding blood bodily brain BYRON CONTINUED cause cerned CHAPTER character choly circumstances constitution convulsions COWPER CONTINUED Cowper's malady death debility dejection delight diet disease disorder dyspepsia effects endeavoured epilepsy errors excitement exegi exercise exhaustion faculties feelings fever friends gloom Goethe habits Hayley heart Hippocrates House of Lords hypochondria imagination infirmities of genius injudicious insanity irritability Johnson labour Lady Austin Lady Blessington Lady Hesketh laudanum letters literary living Lord Byron madness mania melan melancholy ment mental mind misanthropy misery mode monomania Moore morbid sensibility nature nervous ness never Newton observation occasion Olney opinion paroxysm passion period person Petrarch physician plethoric Plutarch poet poor Cowper port wine reason regimen scorbutic SIR WALTER SCOTT Southampton speaking spirits sudden sufferings symptoms temperament thing tion told Unwin vigour WALTER SCOTT CONTINUED
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26. oldal - Madness frequently discovers itself merely by unnecessary deviation from the usual modes of the world. My poor friend Smart showed the disturbance of his mind by falling upon his knees and saying his prayers in the street, or in any other unusual place. Now although, rationally speaking, it is greater madness not to pray at all, than to pray as Smart did, I am afraid there are so many who do not pray, that their understanding...
100. oldal - Yet must I think less wildly : I have thought Too long and darkly, till my brain became, In its own eddy boiling and o'erwrought, A whirling gulf of phantasy and flame : And thus, untaught in youth my heart to tame, My springs of life were poison'd.
132. oldal - Not understand me ?" exclaimed Lord Byron, with a look of the utmost distress, " what a pity! — then it is too late, all is over.
56. oldal - They often see us get into Lady Hesketh's carriage, and rather uncharitably suppose that it always carries us into a scene of dissipation, which in fact it never does.
165. oldal - I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise with a pretty woman ; but she should be one who could understand me, and would add something to the conversation.
48. oldal - ... me. My friends, I know, expect that I shall see yet again. They think it necessary to the existence of divine truth, that he who once had possession of it should never finally lose it. I admit the solidity of this reasoning in every case but my own. And why not in my own? For causes which to them it appears madness to allege, but which rest upon my mind with a weight of immovable conviction.
65. oldal - ... even saw them, could receive no delight from them — who has a faint recollection, and so faint as to be like an almost forgotten dream, that once he was susceptible of pleasure from such causes. The country that you have had in prospect has been always famed for its beauties ; but the wretch who can derive no gratification from a view of nature, even under the disadvantage of her most ordinary dress, will have no eyes to admire her in any. In one day, in one moment I should rather have said,...
46. oldal - My device was intended to represent not my own heart, but the heart of a Christian, mourning and yet rejoicing, pierced with thorns, yet wreathed about with roses. I have the thorn without the rose. My brier is a wintry one, the flowers are withered, but the thorn remains.
112. oldal - England); but it don't exhilarate — it makes me savage and suspicious, and even quarrelsome. Laudanum has a similar effect; but I can take much of it without any effect at all. The thing that gives me the highest spirits (it seems absurd, but true) is a dose of salts — I mean in the afternoon, after their effect. But one can't take them like champagne.
32. oldal - If they be sincere, they are themselves under the strongest delusion ; and it will be well, if it prove not, on their part, a wilful one — it will be well, if they have not reached that last perversity of human reason, to believe a falsehood of their own invention.