The Legendary and Poetical Remains of John Roby, with a Sketch of His Literary Life and Character by His Widow
The Legendary and Poetical Remains of John Roby, with a Sketch of His Literary Life and Character by His Widow

Author: John Roby

Publisher: Palala Press

Published: 2016-05-18

Total Pages: 426

ISBN-13: 9781357239817

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The Legendary and Poetical Remains of John Roby
The Legendary and Poetical Remains of John Roby

Author: John Roby

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2015-03-24

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 9781506180403

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"[...]stolid mind, or a brain like "the gentle" Cowper's, predisposed to malady, would in all probability have given way, as month after month, year after year, rolled away and brought no relief. It was a suffering no friends could soothe; his mental conformation peculiar, -none seemed to meet its emergencies. Bodily disease no doubt aggravated mental agony, but as "No wounds like those a wounded spirit feels" So "No cure for such, till God who makes them heals." For a long time the only relief of which his mind was susceptible, arose from his acquaintance with one in some respects similar to his own, one which understood his sufferings perfectly, for it had known the same both in kind and in degree. The moral element in each, which recoiled from the divine requirements, must have taken precisely the same form of action. Beautiful, even from the very contrasts it presented, was the true and faithful friendship that ensued, between minds sympathising in one point of overpowering interest, though in training and pursuits widely dissimilar; and warm was the gratitude with which he ever held in remembrance those unwearied efforts to pour consolation into his tortured spirit.[...]."