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" I was struck, not long after my settlement in the Temple, with such a dejection of spirits, as none but they who have felt the same can have the least conception of. Day and night I was upon the rack, lying down in horror, and rising up in despair. "
The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th] - Page 98
1833
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The Life of William Cowper, Esq: Compiled from His Correspondence and Other ...

Thomas Taylor - 1833 - 512 pages
...insensibility. The feelings of his peculiarly sensitive mind about this period he thus describes : — ' Not long after my settlement in the Temple, I was...attached ; the classics had no longer any charms for me ; I had need of something more salutary than amusement, but I had no one to direct me where to find...
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The Life of William Cowper, Esq: Comp. from His Correspondence , and Other ...

Thomas Taylor - 1833 - 354 pages
...insensibility. The feelings of his peculiarly sensitive mind on this occasion he thus describes. " Not long after my settlement in the Temple, I was...attached ; the classics had no longer any charms for me ; I had need of something more salutary than amusement, hut I had no one to direct me where to find...
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The Christian observer [afterw.] The Christian observer and advocate

1833 - 776 pages
...insensibility. The feelings of his peculiarly sensitive mind on this occasion he thus describes. " ' rck j i o?t l o u n GYN6t ^ A kOpPp t tXrXsYsZs[s\s t^s t`sml p q ; I had need of something more salutary than amusement, but 1 had no one to direct me whereto find...
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The Infirmities of Genius Illustrated by Referring the Anomalies ..., Volume 1

Richard Robert Madden - Genius - 1833 - 310 pages
...seized with the first attack of his disorder ; " with such a dejection of spirits," he himself says, " as none but those who have felt the same can have...been closely attached. The classics had no longer any charm for me ; I had need of something more salutary than amusement, but I had no one to direct me...
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The life of William Cowper

Thomas Taylor (biographer.) - 1833 - 426 pages
...insensibility. The feelings of his peculiarly sensitive mind on this occasion he thus describes. " Not long after my settlement in the Temple, I was...rising up in despair. I presently lost all relish Jfor those studies to which I had before been closely attached ; the classics had no longer any charms...
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The Infirmities of Genius: Illustrated by Referring the Anomalies in the ...

Richard Robert Madden - Authors - 1833 - 216 pages
...seized with the first attack of his disorder; "with such a dejection of spirits," he himself says, " as none but those who have felt the same can have...been closely attached. The classics had no longer any charm for me ; I had need of something more salutary than amusement, but I had no one to direct me...
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The Infirmities of Genius Illustrated by Referring the Anomalies ..., Volume 2

Richard Robert Madden - Genius - 1833 - 214 pages
...seized with the first attack of his disorder; "with such a dejection of spirits," he himself says, " as none but those who have felt the same can have...been closely attached. The classics had no longer any charm for me; I had need of something more salutary than amusement, but I had no one to direct me where...
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The Medico-chirurgical Review, and Journal of Practical Medicine

Medicine - 1833 - 606 pages
...experienced the first attack of a disorder that harassed him through life. This was, as he expressed it, " such a dejection of spirits as none but those who...rack, lying down in horror, and rising up in despair." Who, that knows any thing of dyspepsia, will not acknowledge that this was just as much a coqioreal...
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The Monthly Review

Books - 1833 - 626 pages
...his disease came on. " The dejection of spirits," says Cowper, in one of bis letters, " was as suck as none, but those who have felt the same, can have...rack, lying down in horror and rising up in despair." He presently lost all relish for the studies which had previously been the source of amusement; he...
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The Christian examiner and Church of Ireland magazine

1834 - 1012 pages
...there he sunk into a state of mind that we find thus described, page 14, in the poet's own words :— " Not long after my settlement in the Temple, I was...; lying down in horror, and rising up in despair." And in this state he continued nearly twelve months. At length a change of scene was recommended to...
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