 He is arranging materials for what, if it be made, will be a most valuable work, under the title of ' Consolations and Comforts,' which will be the very essential oil of metaphysics, fragrant as otto of roses, and useful as wheat, rice, port wine, or...  Selections from the Letters of Robert Southey ... - Page 246by Robert Southey - 1856 - 431 pagesFull view - About this book
 | E M Southwell - 420 pages
...writing now from Keswick : — " Coleridge is now in bed with the lumbago. Never was poor fellow BO tormented with such pantomimic complaints ; his disorders...metaphysics, fragrant as otto of roses, and useful as wheat, rioe, port wine, or any other necessary of human life." his friend, Dr. Stoddart, who was practising... | |
 | Sir Hall Caine - Critics - 1887 - 188 pages
...now resident at Greta Hall, wrote : " Coleridge is now in bed with the lumbago. Never was poor fellow tormented with such pantomimic complaints ; his disorders...never a week together without some one or other." Again, a month or two later, Southey wrote, " Coleridge is quacking himself for complaints that would... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English poetry - 1890 - 412 pages
...tolerably comfortable." Nov. 19, 1803: — "Coleridge is now in bed with the lumbago. Never was poor fellow tormented with such pantomimic complaints ; his disorders...never a week together without some one or other." 1 804 : — " Coleridge quacking himself for complaints that would teaze anybody into quackery." We... | |
 | William Carew Hazlitt - Literature - 1906 - 360 pages
...letter from Southey to John King, of November igth, 1803 > Southey is writing now from Keswick : — " Coleridge is now in bed with the lumbago. Never was...port wine, or any other necessary of human life." At length, in the beginning of 1804, came the determination to try the effect of a change of climate... | |
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