Speech ... on opening the winter lectures of the Reading literary and scientific institution |
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Pagina 23 - I knew not whether Mordecai's hour of rising were come ; if it were, he was careful not to disturb his guest. I put on the garments he had prepared ; I gazed upon the mirror he had left in my apartment. I can recollect no sensation in the course of my life so unexpected and surprising as what I felt at that moment. The evening before, I had seen my hair white, and my face ploughed with furrows; I looked fourscore. What I beheld now was totally different, yet altogether familiar; it was...
Pagina 28 - Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise; There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail.
Pagina 23 - I beheld now was totally different, yet altogether familiar; it was myself, myself as 1 appeared on the day of my marriage with Marguerite de Damville ; the eyes, the mouth, the hair, the complexion, every circumstance, point by point the same.
Pagina 23 - I was now thoroughly alarmed. I applied myself with all vigilance and expedition to the compounding my materials. The fire was gone out, the taper was glimmering in the socket ; to swallow the julep when I had prepared it, seemed to be the last effort of which my organs and muscles were capable. It was the elixir of immortality, exactly made up according to the prescription of the stranger.* Whether from the potency of the medicine, or the effect of imagination I felt revived the moment I had swallowed...
Pagina 23 - ... revived the moment I had swallowed it. I placed myself deliberately in Mordecai's bed, and drew over me the bed-clothes. I fell asleep almost instantly. I believe my first sleep was perfectly sound and sensible. It was not long : in a few hours I awakened. With difficulty I recognised the objects about me, and recollected where I had been. It seemed to me that my heart had never beat so vigorously, nor my spirits flowed so gay. I was all elasticity and life ; I could scarcely hold myself quiet...
Pagina 23 - It was not long : in a few hours I awakened. With difficulty I recognised the objects about me, and recollected where I had been. It seemed to me that my heart had never beat so vigorously, nor my spirits flowed so gay. I was all elasticity and life ; I could scarcely hold myself quiet ; I felt impelled to bound and leap like a kid upon the mountains. I perceived that my little Jewess was still asleep ; she had been unusually fatigued the night before. I...