Wholly exasperated by Thoreau's abstinence from wine and spirits, which Stevenson attributed to the same
valetudinarian healthfulness, the tippling oenophile (in Silverado Squatters he would devote as many pages to appraising fledgling California wines as to describing the sea fogs) fired off this patronizing shot: "his palate [was] so unsophisticated that, like a child, he disliked the taste of wine--or perhaps, living in America, had never tasted any that was good" (Familiar Studies 140).
"She went from resort to resort and from physician to physician." The
valetudinarian in Israel Singer's novel, The Brothers Ashkenazi, was not alone.
Like most hypochondriacs, Whittier lived forever, finally taking his leave 52 years later and entering the
valetudinarian Hall of Fame.)
"Haunting the House of Print: The Circulation of Disembodied Texts in 'Collected by a
Valetudinarian' and 'Miss Grief:" American Culture, Canons, and the Case of Elizabeth Stoddard.
His intellect has become sluggish and enfeebled, and if his evil habits are persisted in, he may end in becoming a driveling idiot or a peevish
valetudinarian. WILLIAM ACTON, THE FUNCTIONS AND DISORDERS OF THE REPRODUCTIVE ORGANS (1857), quoted in STEVEN MARCUS, THE OTHER VICTORIANS 19 (1964).
Many personal physicians over the years have lacked the professional integrity that is arguably more vital for the
valetudinarian celebrity.
Smollett's (in Travels) and Bramble's
valetudinarian state and the irritation caused by it enable their unique vantage point.
The last statement might be
valetudinarian, but it supports the
They were very rich and so were very marriageable and eventually each made a serious alliance: Margaret to a famous Scottish minister of
valetudinarian disposition and wide erudition, Agnes to the keeper of manuscripts at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, a fire-cracker of a mind.
(1) The
valetudinarian Matthew Bramble harbors a longstanding grudge against cities like Bath--"I found nothing but disappointment at Bath" (31)--and London--which has developed into "an overgrown monster" and "an immense wasteland" (82, 83) and whose inhabitants are all "resolved into the grand source of luxury and corruption"--with its ways of living "actuated by the demons of profligacy and licentiousness" (83, 84).
The later work of Gunter Grass is seen as
valetudinarian not only in a way appropriate to the generation of fathers and grandfathers, but also in a broader political and aesthetic sense.
The reasons for Conrad's creative slowdown are touched upon in almost every letter during this period and are indirectly broached in his
valetudinarian wish on 2 April 1921 that his "dear friend" Edmund Candler and his family "will find peace of mind and comfort of body which make up the sum of daily happiness--that minimum that makes life tolerable" (CL 7:444).
Nor is Emma "an unworldly teenager": she is in her twenty-first year, and taking care of a "
valetudinarian" father has given her a demeanour and authority beyond her years.
Fitting gives us the chance to reacquaint ourselves with the fascinating Journey of Niels Klim to the World Underground (1741) by Ludvig Holberg, mentioned by Poe as appropriate reading-matter for that etiolated
valetudinarian, Roderick Usher.
