Volume 1

Biographic clinics / by George M. Gould.

  • George M. Gould
Date:
1903-
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Biographic clinics / by George M. Gould. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    “ The first book of the French Revolution is finished. Soul and body both very sick.” (40.) “ If literature will refuse me both bread and a stomach to digest bread, then surely the case is growing clear.” (40.) “ If Providence ever did warn, it warns thee to have done with literature, which will never yield thee bread, nor stomach to digest bread.” (Of himself, aged 40.) “The pipeclay state, as Carlyle has designated a state too common with those who are too well furnished with bile,” (Mrs. Carlyle.) “ Occasionally sharp pain (something cutting or hard grasp¬ ing me around the heart). . . . Something from time to time tying me tight as it were, all around the region of the heart, and strange dreams haunting me.” (40.) “ My sight inward, as well as outward, is all as if be¬ dimmed.” (40.) “ I am yellow and thin, and feel that a rest will be very welcome and beneficial.” (40.) “ ‘ The accelerated speed ’ slackened to slow, and then to no motion at all. He sat daily at his desk, but his imagination would not work. . . . He locked up his papers, and sat for a fortnight reading novels. . . . He would be idle, he would rest. He would try, if the word was not a mockery, to enjoy himself.” (Froude.) “ My bodily health is actually very bad. ... I am full of dyspepsia, but also of hope. . . . No work to-day, as of late days and weeks.” (40.) “ He wrote ‘ with his heart’s blood ’ in a state of fevered tension.” (Froude.) “ My poor nerves, for long months kept at the stretch, felt all too waste, distracted. . . . That things should come to a crisis is what I wish.” The fortnight’s idleness expired. He had seen many friends, he had walked and sat in the park. The novels had proved without charm. He writes now of “the perceptible increase of health this otherwise so scandalous faulenzen (idleness)
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