Affecting Scenes: Being Passages from the Diary of a Physician, Volume 1J. & J. Harper, 1831 - Literature and medicine |
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... round my neck , and kissed me back to calmness , if not happiness . I laid the manu- script in question on a shelf in my study ; and it was my first and last attempt at medical book- making . From what cause or combination of causes I ...
... round my neck , and kissed me back to calmness , if not happiness . I laid the manu- script in question on a shelf in my study ; and it was my first and last attempt at medical book- making . From what cause or combination of causes I ...
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... round . I knew Mrs. the fair writer of it , very intimately - as , indeed , the familiar and confidential strain of her note will suffice to show . She was a very amiable and clever woman — and would not have complained , I was sure ...
... round . I knew Mrs. the fair writer of it , very intimately - as , indeed , the familiar and confidential strain of her note will suffice to show . She was a very amiable and clever woman — and would not have complained , I was sure ...
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... round them tremble , ” which it was almost madness to look upon . And then her light auburn hair , which hung in loose and easy curls , and settled on each cheek like a soft golden cloud flitting past the moon ! Her figure was DIARY OF ...
... round them tremble , ” which it was almost madness to look upon . And then her light auburn hair , which hung in loose and easy curls , and settled on each cheek like a soft golden cloud flitting past the moon ! Her figure was DIARY OF ...
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... round the room , as if in search of Captain I saw he had noticed the haughty frown with which the captain had retired . Most of the gentlemen who had accompanied Lord to this ball were engaged to dine with him on the next Sunday evening ...
... round the room , as if in search of Captain I saw he had noticed the haughty frown with which the captain had retired . Most of the gentlemen who had accompanied Lord to this ball were engaged to dine with him on the next Sunday evening ...
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... round the room , and seemed about to rise , but there was a cry- " No - Trevor is not the man - I say captain is the favourite ! " — " Ay , ten to one on the captain ! " roared a young hero of Ascot . " Stuff - stuff ! " muttered the ...
... round the room , and seemed about to rise , but there was a cry- " No - Trevor is not the man - I say captain is the favourite ! " — " Ay , ten to one on the captain ! " roared a young hero of Ascot . " Stuff - stuff ! " muttered 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...