 | 1840 - 430 sivua
...consummation hardly, perhaps, to be desired by any true friend of mankind.— KfigM, V . MUSIC AND NOVELS* X have been told by a physician of the first eminence,...peculiar to novels, affects the organs of the body and relaxet the tone of the nerves ; In the same manner as the melting tones of music have been described... | |
 | 1850 - 654 sivua
...plays. They produce al-o the. same kind of mental stimulus, or the same powerful excitement of the mind. I have been told by a physician of the first eminence,...the sickly countenances and nervous habits of our highly educated females than any other causes that can lie assigned. The excels of stimulus on the... | |
 | Thomas Clarkson - 1869 - 356 sivua
...plays. They produce also the same kind of mental stimulus, or the same powerful excitement of the mind. I have been told by a physician of the first eminence,...the sickly countenances and nervous habits of our highly educated females, than any other causes that can be assigned. The excess of stimulus on the... | |
 | 1906 - 888 sivua
...affect prejudicially the organs of the body ; and quotes a physician of the first eminence " as saying that " music and novels have done more to produce the sickly countenances and nervous habits of our highly educated females than any other causes that can be assigned." Shades of Jane Austen ! What would... | |
 | Susan Leigh Foster - 1995 - 280 sivua
...body." Novels "affect the organs of the body," "relax the tone of the nerves," and along with music have "done more to produce the sickly countenances and nervous habits of our highly educated females than anything else." We are getting closer to masturbatory disease." If we... | |
 | Lucy Newlyn - 2000 - 432 sivua
...Quakerism (1806) associates the excesses of female sensibility with the torpor and debility of the addict: I have been told by a physician of the first eminence...the sickly countenances and nervous habits of our highly educated females, than any other causes that can be assigned. The excess of stimulus on the... | |
 | Lucy Newlyn - 2003 - 436 sivua
...sensibility with the torpor and debility of the addict: I have been told by a physician of the fitst eminence that music and novels have done more to produce...the sickly countenances and nervous habits of our highly educated females, than any other causes that can be assigned. The excess of stimulus on the... | |
 | Dino Franco Felluga - 2005 - 230 sivua
...which the NILE of female unhealthiness derives its origin" (1.4.45). Clarkson states with authority that "music and novels have done more to produce the sickly countenances and nervous habits of our highly educated females, than any other causes that can be assigned" (135n). Aligning the excessive... | |
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I have been told by a physician of the first eminence, that music and novels have done more to produce the sickly countenances and nervous habits of our highly educated females, than any other causes that can be assigned. 