 | Henry Matthews - 1822 - Liczba stron: 328
...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 - Liczba stron: 698
...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 - Liczba stron: 708
...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 - Liczba stron: 312
...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 - Liczba stron: 394
...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 - Liczba stron: 422
...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 - Liczba stron: 606
...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 - Liczba stron: 60
...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 - Liczba stron: 680
...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 - Liczba stron: 414
...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... 
