Science and immortality / by William Osler.

  • Osler, William, Sir, 1849-1919.
Date:
1904
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Credit: Science and immortality / by William Osler. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Note i 6, page 34. Saint Teresa, 1515-1582. In a paragraph before A Hymn to the Name and Honour of the Admir¬ able Saint Teresa, Richard Crashaw thus describes her: “ A woman, for angelical height of specula¬ tion, for masculine courage of performance, more than a woman, who yet a child outran maturity, and durst plot a martyrdom.” In another poem he thus apostrophizes her: — “ O thou undaunted daughter of desires! By all thy dower of lights and fires ; By all the eagle in thee, all the dove; By all thy lives and deaths of love; By thy large draughts of intellectual day; And by thy thirsts of love more large than they; By all thy brim-filPd bowls of fierce desire; By thy last morning’s draught of liquid fire ; By the full kingdom of that final kiss That seized thy parting soul, and seal’d thee Ills ; By all the Heavens thou hast in him (Fair sister of the seraphim); By all of him we have in thee; Leave nothing of myself in me. Let me so read thy life, that I Unto all life of mine may die.” An excellent paper upon her life and work, by Annie Fields, appeared in the Atlantic Monthly for