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Robert Lewins : unknown

'I met a rum old army doctor, called Lewins, who sent me a paper of his, full of matter that would not be very gratifying to the elect: In which paper he has the following: "Healthy sensation .. is thus our only Heaven: morbid sensation, varying as it does from ennui or general malaise to mental and corporeal agony and anguish, our only Hell".'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Unknown

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