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CHAPTER XII--THE DISCIPLINE OF EXPERIENCE
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"There is," said he, "something in the noble brotherly love of Charles to brighten, and hallow, and relieve that sadness; but Keats's deathbed is the blackness of midnight, unmitigated by one ray of light!"] [Footnote 1614: On the doctors, who attended him in his first attack, mistaking the haemorrhage from the stomach for haemorrhage from the lungs, he wrote: "It would have been but poor consolation to have had as an epitaph:-- "Here lies George Wilson, Overtaken by Nemesis; He died not of Haemoptysis, But of Haematemesis."] [Footnote 1615: 'Memoir,' p.

427.] [Footnote 171: Jeremy Taylor's 'Holy Living.'] [Footnote 172: 'Michelet's 'Life of Luther,' pp.

411-12.] [Footnote 173: Sir John Kaye's 'Lives of Indian Officers.'] [Footnote 174: 'Deontology,' pp.

130-1, 144.] [Footnote 175: 'Letters and Essays,' p.

67.] [Footnote 176: 'Beauties of St.Francis de Sales.'] [Footnote 177: Ibid.] [Footnote 178: 'Life of Perthes,' ii.


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