 | 1831 - 624 pages
...threw himself into this new sea of troubles, as the following brief passage in Dr. Millingen : — ' I frequently heard him say, " I especially dread,...preference." To avoid corpulence, not satisfied with renouncing the use of every kind of food that he deemed nourishing, he had recourse almost daily to... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1831 - 620 pages
...threw himself into this new sea of troubles, as the following brief passage in Dr. Millingen : — ' I frequently heard him say, " I especially dread,...preference." To avoid corpulence, not satisfied with renouncing the use of every kind of food that he deemed nourishing, he had recourse almost daily to... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1831 - 620 pages
...threw himself into this new sea of troubles, as the following brief passage in Dr. Millingen:— ' I frequently heard him say, " I especially dread,...preference." To avoid corpulence, not satisfied with renouncing the use of every kind of food that he deemed nourishing, he had recourse almost daily to... | |
 | Criticism - 1879 - 876 pages
...Byron's motive for this abstemiousness was the fear of becoming corpulent, which bunted him continually. I frequently heard him say, "I especially dread in...things, to which I have reason to believe I am equally predisposed—growing fat and growing mad; and it would be difficult for me to decide, were I forced... | |
 | Edward Tuckerman Mason - Authors, English - 1884 - 358 pages
...seems to enjoy this thought very much. — COUNTESS OF BLESSINGTON (" Conversations of Lord Byron "). I frequently heard him say, " I especially dread,...preference." To avoid corpulence, not satisfied with eating . . . sparingly, and renouncing the use of every kind of food that he deemed nourishing, he had recourse... | |
 | Edward Tuckerman Mason - Authors, English - 1884 - 356 pages
...seems to enjoy this thought very much. — COUNTESS OF BLESSINGTON (" Conversations of Lord Byron "). I frequently heard him say, ".I especially dread,...preference." To avoid corpulence, not satisfied with eating . . . sparingly, and renouncing the use of every kind of food that he deemed nourishing, he had recourse... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1918 - 708 pages
...at dinner. I do not know any harm of Byron but what he has told me himself." — "An Octogenarian." I frequently heard him say, "I especially dread in...preference." To avoid corpulence, not satisfied with renouncing the use of every kind of food which he deemed nourishing, he had recourse almost daily to... | |
 | Charles Anthony Shriner - Anecdotes - 1918 - 712 pages
...at dinner. I do not know any harm of Byron but what he has told me himself." — "An Octogenarian." I frequently heard him say, "I especially dread in...equally predisposed — growing fat and growing mad, aijd it would be difficult for me to decide, were I forced to make a choice, which of these conditions... | |
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I especially dread, in this world, two things, to which I have reason to believe I am equally predisposed — growing fat and growing mad ; and it would be difficult for me to decide, were I forced to make a choice, which of these conditions I would... 