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...t execution upon himselfe; to assist the sickness to antidate the sickness to make the sicknes the more irremediable, by sad apprehensions, and as if JOHN DONNE he would make a fire the more vehement, by sprinkling water upon the coales, so to wrap a hote fever in cold Melancholy, least the fever alone should not destroy fast enough, without this contribution, nor perfit t...

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...Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions JOHN DONNE 1624 Contents I. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... ...Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions JOHN DONNE 1624 Contents I. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... ...make the sicknes the more irremediable, by sad apprehensions, and as if 2 JOHN DONNE he would make a fire the more vehement, by sprinkling water upon ... ...the sicknes the more irremediable, by sad apprehensions, and as if 2 JOHN DONNE he would make a fire the more vehement, by sprinkling water upon the c... ...bution of Mankind, where one halfe lackes meat, and the other stomacke. 4 JOHN DONNE III. Decubitus sequitur tandem. The Patient takes his bed. W EE ... ...n of Mankind, where one halfe lackes meat, and the other stomacke. 4 JOHN DONNE III. Decubitus sequitur tandem. The Patient takes his bed. W EE attri... ..., by lying still, and not practise my Resurrection, by rising any more. 6 JOHN DONNE IV . Medicusque vocatur. The Phisician is sent for. I T is too l... ...lying still, and not practise my Resurrection, by rising any more. 6 JOHN DONNE IV . Medicusque vocatur. The Phisician is sent for. I T is too little... ...s not; hee hath them at home, but hee must send for the Phisician. 8 JOHN DONNE V . Solus adest. The Phisician comes. A S Sicknes is the greatest mis...

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...Devotions upon Emergent Occasions is a 1624 prose work by the English writer John Donne. It is a series of reflections that were written as Donne recovered from a serious illness, believed to be either typhus or relapsing fever. (Donne does not clearly identify the disease in his text.) The work consi...

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...John Donne was an English Jacobean preacher, sometime lawyer, later in life a Member of Parliament and Royal Chaplain. Marrying for love against the wishes of his influential father-in-law; Donne's career was cast into shadow...

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...A complete and unabridged e-edition of the collected verse of John Donne. Donne, 1572–1631, was born in London, England, and, as evidenced by the verse collected here, is one of the great English language poets and thinkers in modern history illuminating the human condition through a ve...