This kept the lungs
in vigorous health; nay it even seemed to supply the place of
wholesome exercise, and to stimulate the system like a perpetual
blister, with this peculiar advantage, that instead of an
inconvenience it was a pleasure to herself, and all the annoyance
was to her dependents.
"Miss Trewbody lies buried in the Cathedral at Salisbury, where a
monument was erected to her memory, worthy of remembrance itself
for its appropriate inscription and accompaniments. The epitaph
recorded her as a woman eminently pious, virtuous and charitable,
who lived universally respected, and died sincerely lamented by all
who had the happiness of knowing her. This inscription was upon a
marble shield supported by two Cupids, who bent their heads over
the edge with marble tears larger than gray peas, and something of
the same colour, upon their cheeks. These were the only tears that
her death occasioned, and the only Cupids with whom she had ever
any concern."
Southey introduces into this work a variety of extracts from rare and
curious books--stories about Job beating his wife, about surgical
experiments tried upon criminals, about women with horns, and a man who
swallowed a poker, and "looked melancholy afterwards." Well might he
suppose that people would think this farrago a composite production of
many authors, and he says that if it were so he might have given it
instead of the "Doctor" a name to correspond with its heterogeneous
origin, such as--Isdis Roso Heta Harco Samro Grobe Thebo Heneco Thojamma
&c.
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