. Death's doings : consisting of numerous original compositions in verse and prose, the friendly contributions of various writers : principally intended as illustrations of thirty copper-plates . aid he, pointing with the finger of his right hand,which he could scarcely raise from his knee— there ! I see nothing, my dear Wunderlich!—it is your imagination which is thus distorted byyour disease. He drew himself up with horror:* No ! no ! he feebly exclaimed, it is not fancy :—see, it has crawled up my leg: there—there—it is N 178 DEATH S DOINGS. on my heart—I feel it; and he sunk into his chair
. Death's doings : consisting of numerous original compositions in verse and prose, the friendly contributions of various writers : principally intended as illustrations of thirty copper-plates . aid he, pointing with the finger of his right hand,which he could scarcely raise from his knee— there ! I see nothing, my dear Wunderlich!—it is your imagination which is thus distorted byyour disease. He drew himself up with horror:* No ! no ! he feebly exclaimed, it is not fancy :—see, it has crawled up my leg: there—there—it is N 178 DEATH S DOINGS. on my heart—I feel it; and he sunk into his thought he had fainted; but in a few seconds, hegave a convulsive sob; which was succeeded byanother at an equal distance of time: these werethen followed by a hissing, expiratory sound; hislimbs became powerless, and he would have fallenon the floor, if I had not supported him in the doctor entered the room: but it was only to con-firm my apprehensions. The force of the delusionhad overwhelmed his nervous system; and, in thisdoing. Death, in his triumph over mortality, had de-monstrated that life may be expelled from her for-tress by a phantom of the
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