Medical lectures and aphorisms / by Samuel Gee ; with recollections by J. Wickham Legg.

  • Samuel Gee
Date:
1915
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Credit: Medical lectures and aphorisms / by Samuel Gee ; with recollections by J. Wickham Legg. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    full of pleasure boats. If Cowper could complain in his day that the town had spoilt the country, what could we say ? On Kunnymede I saw the flowering rush (butomus umbellatus) in full bloom: I have never seen it since anywhere. Wild flowers are scarcer and scarcer. At Henley I remember that we were very comfortable at the White Hart, with a neat-handed Phyllis to wait upon us : an old woman now, if still alive. The next time I stayed at Oxford it was in Christ Church with the present Bishop.1 The third and last time was soon after we were married, with my wife, and what my bitter-sweet recollections of that time are, you can imagine. It is very kind of you to talk about inviting me to stay with you, but when I see Oxford next I should like to bring my daughter to see the city and I should put up at the ...2 where I stayed before. Moreover I must have warmer weather. It is useless to struggle against the infirmities of age. Only conceited braggarts pretend to do so. [The following letter was sent as a reply to a gift of a bibliography of the Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus. The end should be noticed.] May 14th, 1910. • • • • • » I was somewhat disappointed to see that you had not found out who James Thomson3 was. His is really a very good translation: he had more knowledge of 1 [That is, Dr. Francis Paget, then Canon of Christ Church, after¬ wards Dean, and later, Bishop of Oxford. He was a son of Sir James Paget.] 2 [The name of the inn is left out.] 3 [All that could be made out was that it was most unlikely that he was the same as the author of the Seasons.]