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Search - Letters Of Samuel Johnson. Vol. II

Letters Of Samuel Johnson Vol II
Author: Samuel Johnson

Letters of Samuel Johnson - V O L . - I Jan. 15, 1777 - Dec. 18,1784 -- Wednesday, Jan. 15, One in the morning, 1777. Omnium rerum vicissitzlLZO. The night after last Thursday was so bad, that I took ipecacuanha the next day. The next night was no better. On Saturday I dined with Sir Joshua. The night was such as I was forced to rise and pass so... more »me hours in a chair, with great labour of respiration. I found it now time to do something, and went to Dr. Lawrence 3, and told him I would do what he should order, without reading the prescription. He sent for a chirurgeon and took about twelve ounces of blood, and in the afternoon I got sleep in a chair. At night, when I came to lie down after trial of an hour or two, I found sleep impracticable, and therefore did what the Doctor permitted in a case of distress I rose, and opening the orifice, let out about ten ounces more. Frank and I were but awkward but, with Mr. Levets help we stopped the stream, Piozzi Letters, i. 343. surgeon. Under Surgeon he writes Omnium rerum heus vicissitude corrupted by conversation from chi-, est. nrrgeon. Dr. Murray in his Diction-TERENCE E . u nuchus, ii. 2.45. ary gives no later instance in prose For the sad vicissitude of things, of this spelling than one found in one see Lzfie, v. 117. of Johnsons Letters. Ante, i. 37, n. 2. 5 Levett, the obscure practiser in Johnson in his Dictionary under physic, had a room in his house. Chinrrgeon, says it is now generally I have heard Johnson say, writes pronounced, and by many written, Boswell, he should not be satisfied, VOL. 11. B and 2 To Mrs. Aston. A. D. 1777. and I lay down again, though to little purpose the difficulty of breathing allowed no rest. I slept again in the day-time, in an erect posture. The Doctor has ordered a second bleeding, which I hope will set my breath at liberty I. Last night I could lie but a little at a time. Yet I do not make it a matter of much form. I was to-day at Mrs. Gardiners. When I have bled to-morrow, I will not give up Langton, nor Paradise But I beg that you will fetch me away on Friday. I do not know but clearer air may do me good but whether the air be clear or dark, let me come to you. I am, C., SAM J O HNSON. To sleep, or not to sleep- London, February 18, 1777. Published in the Lge, iii. 104. London, February 25, 1777. Published in the Lge, iii. 100. To MRS. ASTON 5. DEAR MADAM, Bolt-Court, March 8, 1777. As we pass on through the journey of life, we meet, and ought to expect, many unpleasing occurrences, but many like wise encounter us unexpected. I have this morning heard from Lucy6 of your illness. I heard, indeed, in the next sentence though attended by all the College of Physicians, unless he had Mr. Levet with him. Lqe, i. 243. Johnson wrote to Boswell on February 18 - I have been so dis tressed by difficulty of breathing that I lost, as was computed, six and thirty ounces of blood in a few days. lb. iii. 104. See ib. iii. 152, n. 3, for his resort to bleeding. The wife of a tallow chandler on Snow Hill, not in the learned way, but a worthy good woman. Ib. i. 242. Ante, i. 314. He is parodying Hamlet, Act iii. sc. I, 1. 56 - To be, or not to be. Published in Crokers BosweZZ, page 528. Miss Porter, Mrs. Astons near neighbour at Lichfield. that that you are to a great degree recovered. May your recovery, dearest Madam, be complete and lasting The hopes of paying you the annual visit is one of the few solaces with which my imagination gratifies me and my wish is, that I may find you happy...

ISBN-13: 9781408616178
ISBN-10: 1408616173
Publication Date: 1/31/2008
Pages: 480
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