Affecting Scenes: Being Passages from the Diary of a Physician, Volume 1J. & J. Harper, 1831 - Literature and medicine |
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... present volume , -being a series of extracts from a late physician's diary , originally published in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine . In these sketches , obviously drawn from nature , and warm and vivid with the colour of reality , all ...
... present volume , -being a series of extracts from a late physician's diary , originally published in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine . In these sketches , obviously drawn from nature , and warm and vivid with the colour of reality , all ...
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... present misfortunes . I recollect sitting down one day in St. James's Park on one of the benches , weary with wandering the whole morning I knew not whither . I felt faint and ill , and more than usually depressed in mind . I had that ...
... present misfortunes . I recollect sitting down one day in St. James's Park on one of the benches , weary with wandering the whole morning I knew not whither . I felt faint and ill , and more than usually depressed in mind . I had that ...
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... present case . He assured Sir William that nothing was cal- culated to do him so much good as change of air - of course I could not but assent . The sooner , he said , Sir William left town the better . Sir William asked me if I ...
... present case . He assured Sir William that nothing was cal- culated to do him so much good as change of air - of course I could not but assent . The sooner , he said , Sir William left town the better . Sir William asked me if I ...
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... present physician has attended the family for years , and neither Lady nor Sir see any reason for changing . " W- to Dr. H- " The enclosure was 10l . , which I was on the point of returning in a blank envelope , indignant at the cold ...
... present physician has attended the family for years , and neither Lady nor Sir see any reason for changing . " W- to Dr. H- " The enclosure was 10l . , which I was on the point of returning in a blank envelope , indignant at the cold ...
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... present station in society ? merely for the purpose of reducing me to the dreadful con- dition of him of old , whose only consolation from his friends was , " Curse God and die ! " What had I done - what had our forefathers done - that ...
... present station in society ? merely for the purpose of reducing me to the dreadful con- dition of him of old , whose only consolation from his friends was , " Curse God and die ! " What had I done - what had our forefathers done - that ...
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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...