Affecting Scenes: Being Passages from the Diary of a Physician, Volume 1J. & J. Harper, 1831 - Literature and medicine |
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... told me at once he never did that sort of thing . I offered it subsequently to every medical bookseller I could find - with like success . One fat fellow actually whiffled out , " if he might make so bold , " he would advise me to leave ...
... told me at once he never did that sort of thing . I offered it subsequently to every medical bookseller I could find - with like success . One fat fellow actually whiffled out , " if he might make so bold , " he would advise me to leave ...
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... told me by the late Dr. Hamil- ton . He was sent for once in great haste by Lady P - , to see - abso- lutely a little favourite monkey , which was almost suffocated with its morning feed . When the doctor entered the room , he saw only ...
... told me by the late Dr. Hamil- ton . He was sent for once in great haste by Lady P - , to see - abso- lutely a little favourite monkey , which was almost suffocated with its morning feed . When the doctor entered the room , he saw only ...
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... told my servant , that as he had so much trouble in getting his money , he did not want the honour of my custom any longer . The thought that my credit was failing in the neigh- bourhood was insupportable . Ruin and disgrace would then ...
... told my servant , that as he had so much trouble in getting his money , he did not want the honour of my custom any longer . The thought that my credit was failing in the neigh- bourhood was insupportable . Ruin and disgrace would then ...
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... told him their carriage was waiting at the corner of the Stable - yard . This last gentleman , who seemed to be either the son or nephew of the old gentleman , eyed me , I thought , with a certain superciliousness , which was not ...
... told him their carriage was waiting at the corner of the Stable - yard . This last gentleman , who seemed to be either the son or nephew of the old gentleman , eyed me , I thought , with a certain superciliousness , which was not ...
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... told him I was married- " Married ! " said he , with a loud laugh , " No , no , sir ; you're not the man for my money - so I wish you good morning . " * Thus was I baffled in every attempt to obtain a permanent source of support from my ...
... told him I was married- " Married ! " said he , with a loud laugh , " No , no , sir ; you're not the man for my money - so I wish you good morning . " * Thus was I baffled in every attempt to obtain a permanent source of support from my ...
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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...