Affecting Scenes: Being Passages from the Diary of a Physician, Volume 1J. & J. Harper, 1831 - Literature and medicine |
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... course very anxious to acquit myself creditably . Shall I ever forget or forgive the air of insolent condescension with which he received me , or the remark he made in the presence of several individuals , professional as well as ...
... course very anxious to acquit myself creditably . Shall I ever forget or forgive the air of insolent condescension with which he received me , or the remark he made in the presence of several individuals , professional as well as ...
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... course , perceived I was in the medical profession ; and after some apparent hesitation , evidently as to whether or not I should feel hurt , tendered me a guinea . I refused it promptly and decidedly , and assured him that he was quite ...
... course , perceived I was in the medical profession ; and after some apparent hesitation , evidently as to whether or not I should feel hurt , tendered me a guinea . I refused it promptly and decidedly , and assured him that he was quite ...
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... course of the morning . " " Now be calm , my dear , " said Emily , as she saw my fluttering excitement of manner . But alas ! that was impossible . I was impatient for the hour of twelve , and precisely as the clock struck I sallied ...
... course of the morning . " " Now be calm , my dear , " said Emily , as she saw my fluttering excitement of manner . But alas ! that was impossible . I was impatient for the hour of twelve , and precisely as the clock struck I sallied ...
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... course I could not but assent . The sooner , he said , Sir William left town the better . Sir William asked me if I concurred in that opinion ? Certainly . He set off for Worthing two days after ; and I lost the best and almost the only ...
... course I could not but assent . The sooner , he said , Sir William left town the better . Sir William asked me if I concurred in that opinion ? Certainly . He set off for Worthing two days after ; and I lost the best and almost the only ...
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... course of the afternoon , and presented her with a hideous little cracked china teapot , the lid fastened with a dingy silver chain , and the lip of the spout bearing evident marks of an ancient compound fracture . He was singularly ...
... course of the afternoon , and presented her with a hideous little cracked china teapot , the lid fastened with a dingy silver chain , and the lip of the spout bearing evident marks of an ancient compound fracture . He was singularly ...
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Page 3 - It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.
Page 107 - To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, As he is very potent with such spirits, Abuses me to damn me. I'll have grounds More relative than this: the play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.
Page 108 - I have utter'd : bring me to the test, And I the matter will re-word, which madness Would gambol from. Mother, for love of grace, Lay not that flattering unction to your soul, That not your trespass but my madness speaks; It will but skin and film the ulcerous place, Whiles rank corruption, mining all within, Infects unseen.
Page 120 - Fairest of them all. For his bride a soldier sought her, And a winning tongue had he, On the banks of Allan Water, None so gay as she.
Page 216 - The ghastly visage of death thus leering through the tinselry of fashion — " the vain show" of artificial joy — was a horrible mockery of the fooleries of life ! Indeed it was a most humiliating and shocking spectacle. Poor creature...