Another observation strikes me, that in consequence of the same natural indisposition, and habitual sickliness, (for he says he scarcely passed one day without pain after his twentieth year,) he considered and represented human life, as a scene of much greater misery than is generally experienced.

The best cure he has done is upon his own purse, which from a lean sickliness he hath made lusty, and in flesh.

Euphrates the philosopher also died a death of his own choosing; and Hadrian assented to his drinking hemlock in consideration of his extreme age and sickliness.

He had the delicacy of organization which is essential to literary genius, but it stopped short of sickliness or irritability.

The sickliness of their climate for invaders would prevent their being made an object.

The sickliness of their climate for invaders would prevent their being made an object.

But there is no sickliness in his poetry, and he retained a charming playful humordisplayed in his excellent comic ballad John Gilpin; and Mrs. Browning has sung of him, How, when one by one sweet sounds and wandering lights departed, He bore no less a loving face, because so broken-hearted.

And with the sickliness, which was not at all unpleasant, this feeling also clung to me and completely separated me from other men, just as I was sundered from the earth by the thought that your nature and my love had been too sacred not to take speedy flight from earth and its coarse ties.

The Gaffer, moreover, consented to swallow a basin of gruel with just a dash of spirits in it to take away the sickliness of it.

[i] Great Spirit as thou art, in endless dreams 435 Of sickliness, disjoining, joining, things Without the light of knowledge.

My poor brother has meant to do his duty, but he has stood so far aloof from his sons that he has dealt with them in ignorance, and their mother, between sickliness and timidity, is a mere prey to the folly of her gossips.