And near the end of the poem, as Balder considers murdering his wife whose grief for her murdered daughter and escalating madness distract Balder from his composition), he laments, The dark excess That for so many days o'er-loaded all My swollen veins, strangled each vital service, And pressing hard the incommoded soul In its unyielding tenement convulsed The wholesome work of nature (XXXIX, pp.
Physical and metaphysical collapse upon one another in Balder's language, as the boundaries between mind and body, "swollen vein" and "incommoded soul," seem less and less distinct.
To become sensible of this by an experiment, let a person keep his position in the bed, but throw off the bed-clothes, and suffer fresh air to approach the part uncovered of his body; he will then feel that part suddenly refreshed; for the air will immediately relieve the skin, by receiving, licking up, and carrying off, the load of perspirable matter that
incommoded it.
Certainly the tribal peoples living on what were viewed as "waste lands", could be
incommoded, and their life style radically changed if their land was brought into production.
THINGS have come to a pretty pass when a journalist can't even walk up the King's Road without being
incommoded by Chelsea pensioners.
If Gosse pere was not in fact a household tyrant a la Edward Barrett Moulton-Barrett, then a whole subculture of post-nineteenth-century analysis is seriously
incommoded. Mrs.
Here they could be "free from the inconveniences of dirt in winter and dust in summer and not
incommoded by carriages of any kind." This desirable surface was achieved by compacting layers of small stones into a hard mass, the technique that was later to be developed for roads by John McAdam.
They have spent little or no time revising papers for their other classes and, initially, behave as though
incommoded when we expect revision.
The CPA was never "seriously
incommoded" by the Curtin administration,(70) and its legality and property were formally returned at the same `Special' Labor Party Conference which ratified conscription.(71) The Curtin Government also established formal machinery for consultation with the union movement,(72) and improved working conditions and rates of pay.(73) The period of war also, famously, saw the passage of a plethora of welfare legislation which laid the basis for the Australian welfare state.
Of course, not only is moral condemnation possible without hatred (for example, in what sense can we hate Nero or the Borgias?); it is also possible that the evil party in a conflict should hate his virtuous opponent, and not merely feel
incommoded, frustrated, and threatened by him.
Andouillets] been upon some melancholy lecture of the cross--the peace of meekness, or the contentment of resignation--I had not been
incommoded: or had I thought of writing it upon the purer abstractions of the soul, and that food of wisdom, and holiness, and contemplation, upon which the spirit of man (when separated from the body) is to subsist for ever--You would have come with a better appetite from it--.
Nobody was hurt, nobody was frighted--nobody was even
incommoded: some Comforts must then be confessed to result from a despotic Government."(63) Surely these sentiments would have cheered Catherine II and other rulers in strictly regulating balloon launches.
They saw the objection when I raised it but they were not
incommoded by it (p.
"They are mostly advised from [i.e., against] it, at first, by their older relatives or friends, either on the mistaken idea of their health, or on the score of fashion; very frequently by their husbands, who fancy they shall be
incommoded and disturbed by it."(71) When elite women decided not to breastfeed, they were thinking of their own health as well as their convenience.
