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... Night and Death , 48 ; a visit from his Son , 48 ; Letter to Mrs. , 49 ; Letter to Lord Holland , 50 ; his health ; Marcus Antoninus , 51 ; Music as a re- source , 52 ; his Son , 52 . CHAPTER IX . 1839 . Retrospect of the year , and ...
... Night and Death , 48 ; a visit from his Son , 48 ; Letter to Mrs. , 49 ; Letter to Lord Holland , 50 ; his health ; Marcus Antoninus , 51 ; Music as a re- source , 52 ; his Son , 52 . CHAPTER IX . 1839 . Retrospect of the year , and ...
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... night . For the last three days I observe that the pulse is quicker just about ten o'clock when I leave my dressing - room . To - day I find it going at the rate of one hundred and twenty . It is true , I have had no rest . Same day ...
... night . For the last three days I observe that the pulse is quicker just about ten o'clock when I leave my dressing - room . To - day I find it going at the rate of one hundred and twenty . It is true , I have had no rest . Same day ...
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... - Books ? -their Power over me is gone for the present . Exhausted by a succession of sleepless Nights , which are for the most part past in violent coughing , obliged to take rather strong Doses of Opiate AND CORRESPONDENCE . 13.
... - Books ? -their Power over me is gone for the present . Exhausted by a succession of sleepless Nights , which are for the most part past in violent coughing , obliged to take rather strong Doses of Opiate AND CORRESPONDENCE . 13.
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... night ; but the moment I lose myself in sleep , a panting seizes me , and gives me the sense of choking .- ( It has come upon me just as I wrote the last Word of the last Sentence . ) In this miserable struggle must I pass the time ...
... night ; but the moment I lose myself in sleep , a panting seizes me , and gives me the sense of choking .- ( It has come upon me just as I wrote the last Word of the last Sentence . ) In this miserable struggle must I pass the time ...
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... night of even middling repose . A harrassing cough keeps me awake from hour to hour , in spite of strong doses of Opium . I cannot read in the Day - Time , because both a morbid want of interest and attention , and an overwhelming ...
... night of even middling repose . A harrassing cough keeps me awake from hour to hour , in spite of strong doses of Opium . I cannot read in the Day - Time , because both a morbid want of interest and attention , and an overwhelming ...
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