… beneath their midnight studies; till their mental powers were exhausted; till morning’s light brought no freshness or health to them; and they sank beneath the unnatural devotion of their youthful energies to their dry old books? Coming …
… after was wholly free. And these, and the dangerous way he conti|nued in for some time, brought her into an ill state of health; broke, in short, her constitution; so that, in less than a twelvemonth, my Father, to his inexpres|sible anguish …
… my dress, was the chat of the town for that week, and so the name Roxana was the toast at and about the Court; no other health was to be named with it. Now things began to work as I would have them, and I began to be very popular as much as … my dress, was the chat of the town for that week, and so the name Roxana was the toast at and about the Court; no other health was to be named with it." … Fiction … Masquerade … Beauty … Court … Dance … Gentleman … Taken from Daniel Defoe, …
… this agreeable calm will last, Heaven above knows—I flatter myself, the exercise of travelling has been of service to my health; a circumstance which encourages me to-proceed in my projected expedition to the North. But I must, in the mean …
… of being drenched with sea-water; but my fears as well as hers, have been happily disappointed. She is now in perfect health; I wish I could say the same of Liddy—Something uncommon is the matter with that poor girl; her colour fades, her …
… vol. I, p. 95-96. For the Burneys, this was a hard-earned privilege. Dr Burney’s move to King’s Lynn, ostensibly due to health reasons, may have been the more necessary to hide the fact that his first daughter was born shortly before he …