 | 1874 - 898 halaman
...him in the illness of his wife, which ended in mental alienation. "i'orty years," he writes, "has she been the life of my life, and I have left her this day in a lunatic asylum. God who has visited me with this affliction, has given me strength to bear it, and will, I know, support... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1850 - 462 halaman
...Grosvenor, " After what Henry Taylor has imparted to you, you will not be surprised at learning that I have been parted from my wife by something worse than death. Forty years has she been the life of my life ; and I have left her this day in a lunatic asylum. " God, who has... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1850 - 432 halaman
...Grosvenor, " After what Henry Taylor has imparted to you, you will not be surprised at learning that I have been parted from my wife by something worse than death. Forty years has she been the life of my life ; and I have left her this day in a lunatic asylum. " God, who has... | |
 | Samuel Phillips - 1851 - 328 halaman
..." Forty years," he writes to Grosvenor Bedford from York, " has she been the life of my life—and I have left her this day in a lunatic asylum." In the same brief letter he expresses the resignation of a Christian and the confident courage of a man. "... | |
 | Samuel Phillips - 1852 - 312 halaman
...Southey underwent with his Edith. " Forty years, " he writes to Grosvenor Bedford from York, " has she been the life of my life — and I have left her this day in a lunatic asylum." In the same brief letter he expresses the resignation of a Christian and the confident courage of a man. "... | |
 | 1852 - 746 halaman
...learning that I have heen parted from my wife hy something worse than death. Forty years has she heen the life of my life, and I have left her this day in a lunatic asylum. God, who has visited me with this affliction, has given me strength to hear it, and will, I know, support... | |
 | Wiltshire Stanton Austin, John Ralph - 1853 - 448 halaman
...York, he says : " I have been parted from my wife by something more than death. Forty years has she been the life of my life; and I have left her this day in a lunatic asylum." Yet he could discover a cause for gratitude. "I have much to be thankful for under this visitation.... | |
 | Charles Thomas Browne - 1854 - 356 halaman
...AFFLICTION. Southey conveyed her to an asylum near York. In allusion to this journey he writes, — " I have been parted from my wife by something worse than...death : forty years she has been the life of my life." In another letter he writes, — " I cannot but regard it as a special mercy that this affliction should... | |
 | Samuel Phillips - 1871 - 346 halaman
...Edith. " Forty years," he writes to Grosvenor Bedford from York, " has she been the life of my We — and I have left her this day in a lunatic asylum." In the same brief letter he expresses the resignation of a Christian and the confident courage of a man. "God,... | |
 | 1880 - 566 halaman
...burst upon Southey. "I have been parted from my wife," he tells Grosvenor Bedford on October 2, 1834. "by something worse than death. Forty years she has...and I have left her this day in a lunatic asylum." - • Southey 's union with his wife had been at the first one of love, and use and wont had made her... | |
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I have been parted from my wife by something worse than death. Forty years she has been the life of my life ; and I have left her this day in a lunatic asylum. 
