Affecting Scenes: Being Passages from the Diary of a Physician, Volume 1J. & J. Harper, 1831 - Literature and medicine |
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... - glass , and then direct me to inspect the swelled foot of a favourite pointer ! Darting a look of anger at the insulting coxcomb , I instantly Five years withdrew , without uttering a word . afterward 16 PASSAGES FROM THE.
... - glass , and then direct me to inspect the swelled foot of a favourite pointer ! Darting a look of anger at the insulting coxcomb , I instantly Five years withdrew , without uttering a word . afterward 16 PASSAGES FROM THE.
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... uttering a word . afterward did that young man make use of the most strenuous efforts to oust me from the confidence of a family of distinction to which he was distantly related . * A more mortifying incident occurred shortly after ...
... uttering a word . afterward did that young man make use of the most strenuous efforts to oust me from the confidence of a family of distinction to which he was distantly related . * A more mortifying incident occurred shortly after ...
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... uttered by his black grizzle - headed servant - which I was given to understand was a species of Indian song — evincing his satisfaction by a face curiously puckered together , and small beady black eyes , glittering with the light of ...
... uttered by his black grizzle - headed servant - which I was given to understand was a species of Indian song — evincing his satisfaction by a face curiously puckered together , and small beady black eyes , glittering with the light of ...
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... uttered not a word . There was the mother ! -The aggravated malignity of her disorder rendered an operation at length inevitable . The eminent surgeon who , jointly with myself , was in regular attendance on her feelingly communicated ...
... uttered not a word . There was the mother ! -The aggravated malignity of her disorder rendered an operation at length inevitable . The eminent surgeon who , jointly with myself , was in regular attendance on her feelingly communicated ...
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... uttered more than an occasional sigh , during the whole of the protracted and painful operation . When the last bandage had been applied , she whispered , almost inarticulately , " Is it all over , doctor ? " " Yes , madam , " I replied ...
... uttered more than an occasional sigh , during the whole of the protracted and painful operation . When the last bandage had been applied , she whispered , almost inarticulately , " Is it all over , doctor ? " " Yes , madam , " I replied ...
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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...