body-and-soul-wearying

Updated: May 5, 2025

For these last four months, with the exception of last week, in which I visited the Hartz, I have worked harder than I trust in God Almighty, I shall ever have occasion to work again: this endless transcription is such a body-and-soul-wearying purgatory.

Joseph Cottle - Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey