Affecting Scenes: Being Passages from the Diary of a Physician, Volume 1J. & J. Harper, 1831 - Literature and medicine |
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... passing through the usual routine of a college and medical education , I found myself , about my twenty - sixth year , in London , -possessed of about 100l . in cash , a few books , a tolerable ward- robe , an inexhaustible fund of ...
... passing through the usual routine of a college and medical education , I found myself , about my twenty - sixth year , in London , -possessed of about 100l . in cash , a few books , a tolerable ward- robe , an inexhaustible fund of ...
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... a glittering troop of soldiers passed by me , preceded by their band , playing a merry air . How the sounds jarred on the broken strings of my heart ! And many a bright face , dressed in smiles of gayety and happi- 20 PASSAGES FROM THE.
... a glittering troop of soldiers passed by me , preceded by their band , playing a merry air . How the sounds jarred on the broken strings of my heart ! And many a bright face , dressed in smiles of gayety and happi- 20 PASSAGES FROM THE.
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... passing a most anxious and sleepless night , agitated by all kinds of hopes and fears , my wife and I were sitting at breakfast , when a livery - servant knocked at the door ; and after inquiring whether " Dr. ' was at home , left a ...
... passing a most anxious and sleepless night , agitated by all kinds of hopes and fears , my wife and I were sitting at breakfast , when a livery - servant knocked at the door ; and after inquiring whether " Dr. ' was at home , left a ...
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... passed seemed happy and contented ; their spirits ex- hilarated by the genial weather , and sustained by the successful prosecution of business . My heart , how- ever , was fluttering feebly beneath the pressure of anticipated ...
... passed seemed happy and contented ; their spirits ex- hilarated by the genial weather , and sustained by the successful prosecution of business . My heart , how- ever , was fluttering feebly beneath the pressure of anticipated ...
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... he might yet be liberal . As he was something of a character , I must be allowed a word or two about him in passing . Though he occupied the whole of the first floor of my house , I seldom saw him . In truth 34 PASSAGES FROM THE.
... he might yet be liberal . As he was something of a character , I must be allowed a word or two about him in passing . Though he occupied the whole of the first floor of my house , I seldom saw him . In truth 34 PASSAGES FROM THE.
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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...