Hard Cash: A Matter-of-fact Romance, Volume 3

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Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1864
 

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Pagina 269 - E therefore commit his body to the deep, to be turned into corruption, looking for the resurrection of the w body, (when the sea shall give up her dead,) and the life of the world to come...
Pagina 35 - The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Are of imagination all compact: One sees more devils than vast hell can hold; That is the madman: the lover, all as frantic, Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt: The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven And, as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing...
Pagina 37 - ... pitched into the doctor's pet chimera, and what with logic, fact, ridicule, and the author's lines, knocked it to atoms double quick. Now, in their midnight discussions, Dr. Wycherley had always handled the question of Alfred Hardie's Sanity or Insanity with a philosophical coolness the young man admired, and found it hard to emulate; but this philosophic calmness deserted him the moment Hamlet's insanity was disputed, and the harder he was pressed, the redder, the angrier...
Pagina 185 - ... measure of time, and that to a year big with strange events, on which I have therefore dilated in this story, succeeded a year in which few brilliant things happened to the personages of this tale : in short, a year to be skimmed by chronicler or novelist, and yet (mind you) a year of three hundred and sixty-five days, six hours, or thereabouts, and one in which the quiet, unobtrusive troubles of our friends' hearts, especially the female hearts, their doubts, divisions, distresses, did not remit,...
Pagina 310 - there are no such things as formulae in madhouses ; and no interference between patient and inspector is possible, for there are none in my asylum, and therefore there can be none in any other.
Pagina 35 - Hardie, and one or two more contemporaries, had suffered by this humour of the good doctor's. Nor did the dead escape him entirely. Pascal, according to Wycherley, was a madman with an illusion about a precipice ; John Howard a moral lunatic in whom the affections were reversed ; Saul a moping maniac with homicidal paroxysms and nocturnal visions ; Paul an incoherent lunatic, who in his writings flies off at a tangent, and who admits having once been the victim of a photopsic illusion in broad daylight...
Pagina 275 - The other was more singular: with his recovered reason came his first grey hair, and in one fortnight it was all as white as snow. He remained a fortnight on board the Vulture, beloved by high and low. He walked the quarter-deck in the dress of a private gentleman, but looking like an admiral. The sailors touched their hats to him with a strange mixture of veneration and jocoseness.
Pagina 305 - In these interviews no interference of any doctors or attendants, or any "formula" is possible, and the visitors will listen even to the most incoherent ravings if there appears to be the slightest clew to be gathered from them to any real grievance. I say nothing of the terrible slander cast upon a body of professional men to which I am proud to belong. There is no redress for that. There are certain offences with which no court of law can deal ; offences against decency, good taste, and truth,...
Pagina 202 - What a barbed and poisoned arrow is to the body, was this letter to Julia's mind. She sat cold as a stone with this poison in her hand. Then came an impetuous impulse to send it down to Alfred, and request him to transfer the other half of his heart to his lady of the asylum. Then she paused, and remembered how much unjust suspicion had been levelled at him already. What right had she to insult him ? She would try and keep the letter to herself. As to acting upon it, her good-sense speedily suggested...
Pagina 248 - Alfred, not the court, baffled cross-examination and grammar and everything else. Saunders was wise and generous, and said no more. Colt cast a glance of triumph, and declined to reexamine. He always let well alone. The judge, however, evinced a desire to trace the fourteen thousand pounds from Calcutta, but Julia could not help him ; that mysterious sum had been announced by letter as about to sail, and then no more was heard about it till Alfred accused his father of having it. All endeavors to...

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