Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions: Together with Death's Duel
By John Donne
Length7h 30m
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Devotions upon Emergent Occasions is a 1624 prose wo rk by the English writer John Donne, who dedicated it to the future King Charles I. It is a series of reflections that were written as Donne recovered from a serious illness, believed to be either typhus or relapsing fever. Nathaniel Hawthorne, the great American author, cunningly, informatively, and entertainingly recounts several stories in American history. each story is told by a grandfather to his grandchildren. (Goodreads)
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Publish dateJan 13, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1THE LIFE OF DR. JOHN DONNE
2TO THE MOST EXCELLENT PRINCE, PRINCE CHARLES.
3I. MEDITATION.
4II. Post actio læsa.
5III. Decubitus sequitur tandem.
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6IV. Medicusque vocatur.
7V. Solus adest.
8VI. Metuit.
9VII. Socios sibi jungier instat.
10VIII. Et Rex ipse suum mittit.
11IX. Medicamina scribunt.
12X. Lente et serpenti satagunt occurrere morbo.
13XI. Nobilibusque trahunt, a cincto corde, venenum, Succis et gemmis, et quæ generosa, ministrant Ars, et natura, instillant.
14XII.Spirante columba Supposita pedibus, revocantur ad ima vapores.
15XIII. Ingeniumque malum, numeroso stigmate, fassus Pellitur ad pectus, morbique suburbia, morbus.
16XIV. Idque notant criticis medici evenisse diebus.
17XV. Interea insomnes noctes ego duco, diesque.
18XVI. Et properare meum clamant, e turre propinqua, Obstreperæ campanæ aliorum in funere, funus.
19XVII. Nunc lento sonitu dicunt, morieris.
20XVIII.At inde Mortuus es, sonitu celeri, pulsuque agitato.
21XIX. Oceano tandem emenso, aspicienda resurgit Terra; vident, justis, medici, jam cocta mederi Se posse, indiciis.
22XX. Id agunt.
23XXI.Atque annuit ille, Qui, per eos, clamat, linquas jam, Lazare, lectum.
24XXII. Sit morbi fomes tibi cura.
25XXIII. Metusque, relabi.
26DEATH'S DUEL
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