 | Henry Matthews - 1822 - 328 páginas
...lingering progress of consumption, let him repair to Naples ; and the denouement will be much more rapid. The sirocco wind, which has been blowing for six days,...spirits, which is the most intolerable of diseases. This must surely be the " plumbeus Aunter" of Horace. Neapolitan gossips. — It seems there is a great... | |
 | 1836 - 698 páginas
...him repair to Naples ; and the dinoutment will be much more rapid. The Sirocco wind, which has beea blowing for six days, continues with the same violence....spirits, which is the most intolerable of diseases.' p. 295. Let now a chilling Tramontane come in immediately after this " relaxing vapor bath of six days... | |
 | 1836 - 708 páginas
...Naples ; and the denouement will be much more rapid. The Sirocco wind, which has been blowing for *i'j days, continues with the same violence. The effects...of the deserts of Africa, are immediately felt in thnt leaden, oppressive dejection of spirits, which is the most intolerable of diseases.' p. 295. Let... | |
 | James Johnson - 1831 - 312 páginas
...lingering progress of consumption, let him repair to Naples ; and the denouement will be much more rapid. The Sirocco wind, which has been blowing for six days,...spirits, which is the most intolerable of diseases. This must surely be the "plumbeus Auster " of Horace."* If, thermometrically speaking, we say that... | |
 | Henry Matthews - 1836 - 394 páginas
...ing progress of consumption, let him repair to Naples, and the .denouement will be much more rapid. The sirocco wind, which has been blowing for six days, continues with the same violence. The effecls of this south-east blast, fraught with all the plagues of the deserts of Africa, are immediately... | |
 | Joseph Bullar, Henry Bullar - 1841 - 422 páginas
...lingering process of consumption, let him repair to Naples, and the denouement will be much more rapid. The Sirocco wind, which has been blowing for six days,...south-east blast, fraught with all the plagues of the desert of Africa, are immediately felt in that leaden oppressive dejection of spirits, which is the... | |
 | 1834 - 606 páginas
...to the "plumbeus auster." Mr. Matthews pretty significantly answers the objection of Dr. Weatherhead as to the sirocco being a wind at all — in the following...Johnson, too, bears testimony to the truth of Mr. Matthew's description of the sirocco wind. " Yesterday the sirocco — Auster's sultry breath — steamed... | |
 | Edwin Wing - 1848 - 60 páginas
...lingering progress of consumption let him repair to Naples and the denouement will be much more rapid. The Sirocco wind, which has been blowing for six days,...spirits which is the most intolerable of diseases." " The thermometer, in fact, is no index or criterion of our feelings under the influence of the Sirocco... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1852 - 680 páginas
...depressing effects of the sirocco. Matthews, in his Diary of an Invalid, describes its consequences as ' that leaden oppressive dejection of spirits, which is the most intolerable of diseases.' The Italians themselves have a proverb about a stupid book : ' Era scritto in tempo del sirocco' —... | |
 | 1854 - 414 páginas
...depressing effects of the sirocco. Matthews, in his Diary of an Invalid, describes its consequences as ' that leaden oppressive dejection of spirits, which is the most intolerable of diseases.' The Italians themselves have a proverb about a stupid book : ' Era scritto in tempo del sirocco'—[It... | |
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If a man be tired of the slow lingering progress of consumption, let him repair to Naples ; and the denouement will be much more rapid. The sirocco wind, which has been blowing for six days, continues with the same violence. The effects of this, south-east... 
