Quotes About Mesmerism

Just about the only affliction Mesmerism seemed powerless to cure was the one that plagued Dickens the most: asthma. So he found relief the old-fashioned way: He took opium.

Mesmerism, n. Hypnotism before it wore good clothes, kept a carriage and asked Incredulity to dinner.

She had a great horror of submitting herself to mesmeric influences. She recognised that very many of the supposed revelations of the spirits were trivial, perhaps false; but to the fact that communications did exist she adhered constantly.

when they lived in Rochester, every newspaper, parlor, and street corner buzzed with talk about mesmerism and phrenology, abolition and suffrage.

God save you from ever being obliged to beat in a game of chess, whose stake is your life, you having but four poor pawns and pieces and your adversary with his full force unshorn. But if you are, provided you have any strength with breadth of will, do not despair. Though mesmeric power may not save you, it may help you; try it at all events.

El charlatán es siempre el que va de descubierta. Del astrólogo salió el astrónomo, del alquimista el químico, y del mesmerismo, la psicología experimental. El charlatán de ayer será el profesor de mañana. Andando el tiempo, hasta una materia tan sutil y resbaladiza como la de los sueños será sistematizada y puesta en orden.

For Browning, Mr. Pound has always professed strong admiration (see Mesmerism in Personae); there are traces of him in Cino and Famam Librosque Cano, in the same volume. But it is more profitable to comment upon the variety of metres and the original use of language. Ezra Pound