Affecting Scenes: Being Passages from the Diary of a PhysicianJ. & J. Harper, 1831 - 352 ページ |
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Æschylus agitation Allan Water 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 Gloucester guineas hand head heard heart honour horror hour hurried husband hypochondriasis inquired instant instantly is-is JOHN GALT lady laudanum look manner melan mind Miss Herbert morning nearly never night nine o'clock Novel 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 sudden suddenly suffered symptoms tears tell thing thought tion told tone Trevor turned uttered vols Warningham whispered wife words wretched young
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3 ページ - 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.
292 ページ - In short, herein seems to lie the difference between idiots and madmen, that madmen put wrong ideas together, and so make wrong propositions, but argue and reason right from them; but idiots make very few or no propositions, and reason scarce * at all.
108 ページ - 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.
119 ページ - I saw the miller's daughter, But she smiled no more. For the summer grief had brought her, And the soldier false was he, On the banks of Allan Water, None so sad as she.
216 ページ - 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!
215 ページ - Betty, and see if she wants any thing; and tell her it's half past nine o'clock," said Mrs. J . The servant accordingly went up stairs •and knocked at the bedroom-door once, twice, thrice, but received no answer. There was a dead silence, except when the wind shook the window. Could Miss J have fallen asleep ? Oh, impossible ! She knocked again, but unsuccessfully as before. She became a little flustered, and after a moment's pause opened the door and entered. There was Miss J sitting at the glass....