Affecting Scenes: Being Passages from the Diary of a Physician, Volume 1J. & J. Harper, 1831 - Literature and medicine |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 51
Page 16
... suffered to wait so long in an anteroom , that , what with the noise of servants bustling past with insolent familiarity , I quite forgot the relationship , and left the house , wondering what had brought me there . I never felt ...
... suffered to wait so long in an anteroom , that , what with the noise of servants bustling past with insolent familiarity , I quite forgot the relationship , and left the house , wondering what had brought me there . I never felt ...
Page 20
... suffer much agitation from them . I folded my arms on my breast in sullen apathy , and wished only that , whatever might be my fate , certainty might be substituted for suspense . While indulging in thoughts like these , a glittering ...
... suffer much agitation from them . I folded my arms on my breast in sullen apathy , and wished only that , whatever might be my fate , certainty might be substituted for suspense . While indulging in thoughts like these , a glittering ...
Page 21
... suffering from another severe disorder , which need not be more particularly named . He looked at me once or twice , in a manner which seemed to say that he would not take it rudely if I addressed him . I did so . I said , " I am afraid ...
... suffering from another severe disorder , which need not be more particularly named . He looked at me once or twice , in a manner which seemed to say that he would not take it rudely if I addressed him . I did so . I said , " I am afraid ...
Page 29
... suffered in such times as these , not on my own account , but for those beloved beings whose ruin was implicated in mine ! What , however , was to be done at the pre- sent crisis , seeing at Christmas old L- would come upon me for his ...
... suffered in such times as these , not on my own account , but for those beloved beings whose ruin was implicated in mine ! What , however , was to be done at the pre- sent crisis , seeing at Christmas old L- would come upon me for his ...
Page 30
... suffered from the pressure of accumu- lated misfortunes , the idea of applying to this man , and stating my circumstances , had presented itself a thousand times . As one is easily induced to believe what one wishes to be true , I could ...
... suffered from the pressure of accumu- lated misfortunes , the idea of applying to this man , and stating my circumstances , had presented itself a thousand times . As one is easily induced to believe what one wishes to be true , I could ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
agitation Allan Water ANNA MARIA PORTER apoplexy apothecary asked assured attended baronet beautiful bedside begged burst calm Captain carriage choly continued course dear dear doctor doctor door dreadful Effingstone endeavoured epilepsy excitement exclaimed eyes face faint fancy fearful feelings felt friends guineas hand head heard heart honour horror hour hurried husband hypochondriasis inquired instant instantly lady laudanum look manner melan mind Miss Herbert morning nearly never night nine o'clock o'clock occasion Old Bailey once pain pale patient Paul Clifford pause poor port wine present reader recollect replied round scene seemed servant sigh sitting smile soon sort spirits STRATTON HILL sudden suddenly suffered symptoms tears tell thing thought tion told tone Trevor turned uttered vols Warningham whispered wife words wretched young
Popular passages
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...