. Life and death : being an authentic account of the deaths of one hundred celebrated men and women, with their portraits . the mind, as poor St. Theresa said of it: elle reduit Iame a ne savoir plusque devenir. De Vigny awaited his slow and cruel death with courage,and without impatience. His innate modesty, and a repugnance to abnormalphysical phenomena, led him to keep his malady a secret. If he did speak 197 r c 198 A BOOK OF LIFE AND DEATH of his sufferings it was indirectly and with reticence. Writing to a friend inthose last days he said: Je suis accable des lassitudes de cette lutte co
. Life and death : being an authentic account of the deaths of one hundred celebrated men and women, with their portraits . the mind, as poor St. Theresa said of it: elle reduit Iame a ne savoir plusque devenir. De Vigny awaited his slow and cruel death with courage,and without impatience. His innate modesty, and a repugnance to abnormalphysical phenomena, led him to keep his malady a secret. If he did speak 197 r c 198 A BOOK OF LIFE AND DEATH of his sufferings it was indirectly and with reticence. Writing to a friend inthose last days he said: Je suis accable des lassitudes de cette lutte contrele vautour que Promethee ma legue. II me devore avec une cruauteinouie. On the 17th September 1863, after a slow agony, his body ceased tosuffer; and if indeed, as Plato believed, death is but a dreamless sleep, if inthis death we find peace and forgetfulness, then his suffering and restlessspirit has at last found repose. Lecky, in The Map of Life, quotes an epitaph from a German church-yard. I will arise, O Christ, when Thou callest me; but let me rest awhilefor I am very weary. Authority: Life by M. Makhpeacf. Thackeray. No. 91The Death of William Makepeace Thackeray. Bornat Calcutta in 1811. Died at Kensington PalaceGardens, London, 24th December 1863. AT the close of his Roundabout Papers, No. 23 De Finibus, whichappeared in the Cornhill Magazine, Thackeray wrote: AnotherFinis written; another milestone on this journey from birth to thenext world. Sure it is a subject for solemn cogitation. Yet a few chaptersmore, and then the last, after which behold Finis itself comes to an end, andthe Infinite begins. Thackeray suffered from heart disease, and had fixed with his friend andphysician to come and see him on the Tuesday before his death, but hadput him off with a note in which he subscribed himself, Yours unfaithfullyW. M. T. On the next day he went for a walk and returned somewhatfatigued. He went to bed at ten oclock, declining the offer of his
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