Affecting Scenes: Being Passages from the Diary of a Physician, Volume 1J. & J. Harper, 1831 - Literature and medicine |
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... fearful visitant . Even yet , rapidly as I seemed approaching the precipice of ruin , I could not avoid cherishing a feeble hope that some unexpected avenue would open to better fortune ; and the thought of it would for a time soothe my ...
... fearful visitant . Even yet , rapidly as I seemed approaching the precipice of ruin , I could not avoid cherishing a feeble hope that some unexpected avenue would open to better fortune ; and the thought of it would for a time soothe my ...
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... fearful embarrassments , I expended my last guinea in providing a tolerably comfortable dinner , such as I had not sat down to for many a long week . I was determined to cast care aside for one day at least . The little table was set ...
... fearful embarrassments , I expended my last guinea in providing a tolerably comfortable dinner , such as I had not sat down to for many a long week . I was determined to cast care aside for one day at least . The little table was set ...
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... * I once before heard these strange words fall from the lips of a dying patient - a lady . To me they suggest very unpleasant , I may say fearful thoughts . What is to be kept off ? Why - oh , death— ” He ceased . He 70 PASSAGES FROM THE.
... * I once before heard these strange words fall from the lips of a dying patient - a lady . To me they suggest very unpleasant , I may say fearful thoughts . What is to be kept off ? Why - oh , death— ” He ceased . He 70 PASSAGES FROM THE.
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... fearful curses upon Captain It was with the utmost difficulty that the keepers could hold him down , even though my un- fortunate patient was suffering under the restraint of a strait waistcoat . His countenance , which I think I ...
... fearful curses upon Captain It was with the utmost difficulty that the keepers could hold him down , even though my un- fortunate patient was suffering under the restraint of a strait waistcoat . His countenance , which I think I ...
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... fearful as his former ones . I told him I bowed to his judgment . 66 " Good , " he answered ; " genius should always be candid . Macready has a single whisper , when he inquires , ' Is it the King ? which is worth all your fiendish ...
... fearful as his former ones . I told him I bowed to his judgment . 66 " Good , " he answered ; " genius should always be candid . Macready has a single whisper , when he inquires , ' Is it the King ? which is worth all your fiendish ...
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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...