Tra un Sigaro e l’altro, p. 194.
151
Max. du Camp, Souvenirs, 1884.
152
Schilling, Psychiatr. Briefe., p. 488, 1863.
153
Zimmermann, Solitude.
154
Tagebuch, 1787, Berne.
155
Sketches of Bedlam, 1823.
156
Biographie, by Wasielewski, Dresden, 1858.
157
Maxime du Camp, Souvenirs littéraires, 1887.
158
Brunetière, Revue des Deux Mondes, 1887, No. 706. Revue Bleue, July, 1887.
159
Maxime du Camp, Souvenirs littéraires.
160
“A une Heure du Matin,” in Petits Poèmes en Prose.
161
Bufalini, Vita di Concato, 1884.
162
Revue Philosophique, 1886.
163
Littré, A. Comte et la Phil. Posit., 1863.
164
W. de Fonvielle, Comment se font les Miracles, 1879.
165
De Vita propria, ch. 45.
166
Byron said, also, that intermittent fevers came at last to be agreeable to him, on account of the pleasant sensation that followed the cessation of pain.
167
“One day I thought I heard very sweet harmonies in a dream. I awoke, and I found I had resolved the question of fevers: why some are lethal and others not – a question which had troubled me for twenty-five years” (De Somniis, c. iv.).
“In a dream there came to me the suggestion to write this book, divided into exactly twenty-one parts; and I experienced such pleasure in my condition and in the subtlety of these reasonings as I had never experienced before” (De Subtilitate, lib. xviii. p. 915).
168
“Jewels in sleep are symbolical of sons, of unexpected things, of joy also; because in Italian gioire means ‘to enjoy’ (De Somniis, cap. 21; De Subtilitate, p. 338).
169
Buttrini, Girolamo Cardano, Savona, 1884.
170
Bertolotti (I Testamenti di Cardano, 1888) has shown that this legend has no foundation.
171
“I shall live in the midst of my torments, and among the cares that are my just furies, wild and wandering; I shall fear dark and solitary shades, which will bring before me my first fault; and I shall have in horror and disgust the face of the sun which discovered my misfortunes; I shall fear myself, and, for ever fleeing from myself, I shall never escape.”
172
Brewster’s Memoirs of Sir I. Newton, vol. ii. p. 100.
173
Brewster’s Memoirs of Sir I. Newton, vol. ii. p. 94.
174
Dialogues, i.