Affecting Scenes: Being Passages from the Diary of a Physician, Volume 1J. & J. Harper, 1831 - Literature and medicine |
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... smile of sweet solicitude in her face . My agitated and mortified air convinced her that I was finally disappointed , and that six months ' hard labour was thrown away . In a fit of uncontrollable pique and passion I flung the ...
... smile of sweet solicitude in her face . My agitated and mortified air convinced her that I was finally disappointed , and that six months ' hard labour was thrown away . In a fit of uncontrollable pique and passion I flung the ...
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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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... smiles of gayety and happi- ness , thronged past , attracted by the music - little thinking of the wretchedness of him who was sitting by . I could not prevent the tears of anguish from gushing forth . I thought of Emily - of her ...
... smiles of gayety and happi- ness , thronged past , attracted by the music - little thinking of the wretchedness of him who was sitting by . I could not prevent the tears of anguish from gushing forth . I thought of Emily - of her ...
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... smiling , gentle Emily ! -my heart bled for her . Not to leave any stone unturned , seeing an adver- tisement addressed " To Medical Men , " I applied for the situation of assistant to a general practitioner , though I had but little ...
... smiling , gentle Emily ! -my heart bled for her . Not to leave any stone unturned , seeing an adver- tisement addressed " To Medical Men , " I applied for the situation of assistant to a general practitioner , though I had but little ...
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... smile of resignation , that she had for some time been suspecting as much , and had made up her mind to submit to it -- but on two conditions - that her husband ( who was then at sea ) should not be informed of it till it was over ; and ...
... smile of resignation , that she had for some time been suspecting as much , and had made up her mind to submit to it -- but on two conditions - that her husband ( who was then at sea ) should not be informed of it till it was over ; and ...
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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...