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... liver ' s coming up ; I shall not survive the racket Of this brutal Lisbon Packet . " Love's a capricious power ; I've known it hold Out through a fever caused by its own heat , But be much puzzled by a cough or cold , And find a quinsy ...
... liver ' s coming up ; I shall not survive the racket Of this brutal Lisbon Packet . " Love's a capricious power ; I've known it hold Out through a fever caused by its own heat , But be much puzzled by a cough or cold , And find a quinsy ...
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... liver with drinking . Antony and Cleopatra , Act I. , Sc . II . Let my liver rather heat with wine , Than my heart cool with mortifying groans . Merchant of Venice , Act I. , Sc . I. Were my wife's liver Infected as her life , she 30 ...
... liver with drinking . Antony and Cleopatra , Act I. , Sc . II . Let my liver rather heat with wine , Than my heart cool with mortifying groans . Merchant of Venice , Act I. , Sc . I. Were my wife's liver Infected as her life , she 30 ...
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... liver is the lazaret of bile , But very rarely executes its function , For the first passion stays there such a while That all the rest creep in and form a junction , Like knots of vipers on a dunghill's soil , Rage , fear , hate ...
... liver is the lazaret of bile , But very rarely executes its function , For the first passion stays there such a while That all the rest creep in and form a junction , Like knots of vipers on a dunghill's soil , Rage , fear , hate ...
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... liver white and pale , * but the sherris warms it , and makes it course from the inwards to the parts extreme . Henry IV - 2d , Act IV . , Sc . III . The rapidity with which aconite , in poisonous doses , acts , is forcibly shown in the ...
... liver white and pale , * but the sherris warms it , and makes it course from the inwards to the parts extreme . Henry IV - 2d , Act IV . , Sc . III . The rapidity with which aconite , in poisonous doses , acts , is forcibly shown in the ...
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... liver , was led , in 1859 , to express the absurd idea that William Shakespeare had anticipated Harvey in the dis- covery of the circulation of the blood . " What damned error , but some sober brow Will bless it , and approve it with a ...
... liver , was led , in 1859 , to express the absurd idea that William Shakespeare had anticipated Harvey in the dis- covery of the circulation of the blood . " What damned error , but some sober brow Will bless it , and approve it with a ...
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Page 33 - Caesar carelessly but nod on him. He had a fever when he was in Spain, And when the fit was on him, I did mark How he did shake...
Page 72 - I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me : I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums, And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this.
Page 10 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas'd ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow; Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the stuffd bosom of that perilous stuff Which weighs upon the heart?
Page 46 - A made a finer end, and went away an it had been any christom child. A parted even just between twelve and one, even at the turning o' the tide. For after I saw him fumble with the sheets, and play with flowers, and smile upon his fingers...
Page 47 - Ha ! let me see her: — Out, alas ! she's cold ; Her blood is settled, and her joints are stiff; Life and these lips have long been separated: Death lies on her, like an untimely frost Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.
Page 14 - The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mould of form, The observ'd of all observers, — quite, quite down ! And I, of ladies most deject and wretched, That suck'd the honey of his music vows, Now see that noble and most sovereign reason, Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh...
Page 16 - Methought I heard a voice cry " Sleep no more ! Macbeth does murder sleep" — the innocent sleep, Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care, The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast, — Lady M.
Page 68 - Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deform'd, unfinish'd, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them...
Page 43 - s by action dignified. Within the infant rind of this weak flower Poison hath residence and medicine power : For this, being smelt, with that part cheers each part ; Being tasted, slays all senses with the heart.
Page 37 - Himself best knows : but strangely-visited people, All swoln and ulcerous, pitiful to the eye, The mere despair of surgery, he cures ; Hanging a golden stamp about their necks, Put on with holy prayers : and 'tis spoken, To the succeeding royalty he leaves The healing benediction.