...incident in Dr. Donne's life which requires annotation more than the vision which he had of his wife ' with her hair hanging about her shoulders and a dead child in her arms ' (p. 80), and we are sorry that Dr. Jessopp does no more than extract Walton's description of this...

...Donne was not sufficiently collected to reply, but after a long and perplexed pause, answered : "I have seen a dreadful vision since I saw you. I have...in her arms ; this I have seen since I saw you." To this Sir Robert responded : " Surely, Sir, you have slept since I saw you, and this is the result of...

...; and after some time the doctor told him he had seen a dreadful vision. " I have seen," says he, " my dear wife pass twice by me, through this room,...about her shoulders, and a dead child in her arms." A messenger was immediately despatched to England, to inquire after Mrs Donne; and 1 The above is taken...

...first Donne was not sufficiently collected to reply, but after a long and perplexed pause, answered: "I have seen a dreadful vision since I saw you. I have...in her arms; this I have seen since I saw you." To this Sir Robert responded: " Surely, Sir, you have slept since I saw you, and this is the result of...

...after a long and perplexed pause, answered : " I have seen a dreadful vision since I saw you. I aave seen my dear wife pass twice by me through this room,...in her arms ; this I have seen since I saw you." To this Sir Robert responded : " Barely, Sir, you have slept since I saw you, and this is the result of...

...Hebrides, Aug. 1 5, note. 3 See ante, pp. 279, 283. 4 'I have seen,' said Mr. Donne to Sir R. Drewry, 'a dreadful vision since I saw you. I have seen my...about her shoulders, and a dead child in her arms.' He leamt that on the same day, and about the very hour, after a long and dangerous labour, she had...

...was not able to make a present answer ; but after a long and perplexed pause, did at last say, " I have seen a dreadful vision since I saw you : I have...I have seen since I saw you." To which Sir Robert B replied, " Sure, sir, you have slept since I saw you; and this is the result of some melancholy dream,...

...was not able to make a present answer ; but after a long and perplexed pause, did at last say, " I have seen a dreadful vision since I saw you : I have...I have seen since I saw you." To which Sir Robert B replied, "Sure, sir, you have slept since I saw you; and thia- is the result of some melancholy dream,...

...days after Donne's arrival in Paris, he saw, at midday, a vision of his wife pass before him twice, with her hair hanging about her shoulders, and a dead child in her arms. Her ill-divining fears were in fact realized ; the infant of which she was delivered died at birth....

...looks as greatly surprised him. After an interval, Donne recovered himself, and said, " I have had a dreadful vision since I saw you ; I have seen my dear wife pass by me twice in this room, with her hair hanging about her shoulders and a dead child in her arms."...