"Phthisic" Quotes from Famous Books
... alone, go out very little, and enjoy in its fullest extent the dolce far niente. What you are about I cannot guess, even from your date;—not dauncing to the sound of the gitourney in the Halls of the Lowthers? one of whom is here, ill, poor thing, with a phthisic. I heard that you passed through here (at the sordid inn where I first alighted) the very day before I arrived in these parts. We had a very pleasant set here; at first the Jerseys, Melbournes [3], Cowpers [4], and Hollands, but all gone; and the only persons I know are the Rawdons [5] and Oxfords ... — The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals, Volume 2. • Lord Byron |