Affecting Scenes: Being Passages from the Diary of a Physician, Volume 1J. & J. Harper, 1831 - Literature and medicine |
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... what the lawyers would call acts of owner- ship on it . As , however , there was no time to lose , I took a respectable house in C—— street , west— furnished it neatly and respectably - fortunately enough let the 10 PASSAGES FROM THE.
... what the lawyers would call acts of owner- ship on it . As , however , there was no time to lose , I took a respectable house in C—— street , west— furnished it neatly and respectably - fortunately enough let the 10 PASSAGES FROM THE.
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... took my departure . I felt altogether a new man as I walked home . My spirits were more light and buoyant than they had been for many a long month ; for I could not help thinking that I had now a fair chance of introduction into ...
... took my departure . I felt altogether a new man as I walked home . My spirits were more light and buoyant than they had been for many a long month ; for I could not help thinking that I had now a fair chance of introduction into ...
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... took my pen in hand to write to him . I was at a loss for terms in which to state our distress most feelingly , and in a manner best calculated to arrest his attention . I had , however , after infinite reluc- tance , addressed a letter ...
... took my pen in hand to write to him . I was at a loss for terms in which to state our distress most feelingly , and in a manner best calculated to arrest his attention . I had , however , after infinite reluc- tance , addressed a letter ...
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... took my departure , determining to perish rather than make a second application . To antici- pate my narrative a little , I may state , that ten years afterward , Sir , who had become dreadfully ad- dicted to gambling , lost all his ...
... took my departure , determining to perish rather than make a second application . To antici- pate my narrative a little , I may state , that ten years afterward , Sir , who had become dreadfully ad- dicted to gambling , lost all his ...
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... took a favourable turn when most they needed it , and when least I expected it . On what small and insignificant things do our fates depend . Truly , " There is a tide in the affairs of men , Which , taken at the flood , leads on to ...
... took a favourable turn when most they needed it , and when least I expected it . On what small and insignificant things do our fates depend . Truly , " There is a tide in the affairs of men , Which , taken at the flood , leads on to ...
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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...