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" I have sometimes half believed, although the suspicion is mortifying, that there is only a step between his state who deeply indulges in imaginative meditation, and insanity... "
Our Social Bees: Or, Pictures of Town & Country Life, and Other Papers - Page 489
by Andrew Wynter - 1861 - 532 pages
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Obscure Diseases of the Brain and Mind

Forbes Winslow - Brain - 1866 - 528 pages
...who imagined all the shipi which entered the Pirseum to belong to him, was owing to no other cause." is only a step between his state who deeply indulges...senses appeared sometimes to be wandering. I cannot describe the peculiar feeling I then experienced; for I have failed in so doing to several eminent...
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Contarini Fleming: An Autobiography

Benjamin Disraeli - English fiction - 1870 - 116 pages
...Accept this omen that your work is good, and revel in the sunshine of composition. I have sometimes half believed, although the suspicion is mortifying,...imaginative meditation and insanity. For I well remember that at this period of my life, when I indulged in meditation to a degree which would now be impossible,...
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Collected edition of the novels and tales by ... B. Disraeli, Volume 7

Benjamin Disraeli (earl of Beaconsfield.) - 1871 - 728 pages
...Accspt this omen that your work is good, and revel in the sunshine of composition. I have sometimes half believed, although the suspicion is mortifying,...imaginative meditation, and insanity ; for I well remember that at this period of my life, when I indulged in meditation to a degree that would now be impossible,...
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The Borderlands of Insanity: And Other Allied Papers

Andrew Wynter - Idiot asylums - 1875 - 330 pages
...Disraeli, in his " Contarini Fleming," has with intuitive genius seen this truth :— "I have sometime," he says, " half believed, although the suspicion is...senses appeared sometimes to be wandering. I cannot describe the peculiar feelings I then experienced .... but I think it was that I was not always assured...
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The Borderlands of Insanity, and Other Allied Papers: Being ..., Issue 243

Andrew Wynter - Mentally ill - 1875 - 348 pages
...Disraeli, in his " Contarini Fleming," has with intuitive genius seen this truth : — "I have sometime," he says, " half believed, although the suspicion is...senses appeared sometimes to be wandering. I cannot describe the peculiar feelings I then experienced .... but I think it was that I was not always assured...
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The borderlands of insanity and other allied papers. Being essays ..., Issue 276

Andrew Wynter - 1877 - 312 pages
...intuitive genius indicated this truth : — " I have sometimes," he makes one of his characters say, " half believed, although the suspicion is mortifying,...senses appeared sometimes to be wandering. I cannot describe the peculiar feelings I then experienced .... but I think it was that I was not always assured...
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The Borderlands of Insanity and Other Papers

Andrew Wynter, Joseph Mortimer Granville - Mental Disorders - 1877 - 336 pages
...intuitive genius indicated this truth : — " I have sometimes," he makes one of his characters say, " half believed, although the suspicion is mortifying,...senses appeared sometimes to be wandering. I cannot describe the peculiar feelings I then experienced .... but I think it was that I was not always assured...
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Contarini Fleming: A Psychological Romance. The Rise of Iskander

Benjamin Disraeli - 1878 - 480 pages
...Accept this omen that your work ia good, and revel in the sunshine of composition. I have sometimes half believed, although the suspicion is mortifying,...imaginative meditation, and insanity ; for I well remember that at this period of my life, when I indulged in meditation to a degree that would now be impossible,...
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Contarini Fleming. The rise of Iskander

Benjamin Disraeli - 1881 - 490 pages
...Accept this omen that your work is good, and revel in the sunshine of composition. I have sometimes half believed, although the suspicion is mortifying,...imaginative meditation, and insanity ; for I well remember that at this period of my life, when I indulged in meditation to a degree that would now be impossible,...
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American Practitioner and News, Volumes 19-20

1895 - 1074 pages
...doubt." Dryden says: " Great wit to madness is allied." Lord Beaconsfield says : " I have sometimes half believed, although the suspicion is mortifying,...deeply indulges in imaginative meditation and insanity. I was not always sure of my identity or even existence, for I have found it necessary to shout aloud...
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