The Doctor in History, Literature, Folk-lore, EtcWilliam Andrews Andrews & Company, 1896 - 287 páginas |
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... volume entitled " How they Lived in the Olden Time , " a picture of bringing in the dinner . It will be observed that the steward , bearing his staff of office , heads the procession . Each dish as it was brought to the table was again ...
... volume entitled " How they Lived in the Olden Time , " a picture of bringing in the dinner . It will be observed that the steward , bearing his staff of office , heads the procession . Each dish as it was brought to the table was again ...
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... volume , " Tween Gloamin ' and the Mirk , " has related how he himself , during infancy , underwent a mysterious cure for the " falling sickness . " He was carried secretly away to a lonely hut on the distant moor , and the party were ...
... volume , " Tween Gloamin ' and the Mirk , " has related how he himself , during infancy , underwent a mysterious cure for the " falling sickness . " He was carried secretly away to a lonely hut on the distant moor , and the party were ...
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... volume which Gaston Boissier devoted to her works and letters , we have glimpses of the medical profession in France , which show us it was in her time and country , just what it was in England in the same century when it was known to ...
... volume which Gaston Boissier devoted to her works and letters , we have glimpses of the medical profession in France , which show us it was in her time and country , just what it was in England in the same century when it was known to ...
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... volume . In all his work Dr. Holmes showed himself to be the profound student of nature and of humanity with many varying interests ; yet we can often trace the hand of the physician in the work of the essayist and poet . His novels ...
... volume . In all his work Dr. Holmes showed himself to be the profound student of nature and of humanity with many varying interests ; yet we can often trace the hand of the physician in the work of the essayist and poet . His novels ...
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... functions with unimagined charms . Take , for instance , this poetic exposition of our respiration , the scientific correctness and exactness of which need no explanation to readers of this volume FAMOUS LITERARY DOCTORS . 107.
... functions with unimagined charms . Take , for instance , this poetic exposition of our respiration , the scientific correctness and exactness of which need no explanation to readers of this volume FAMOUS LITERARY DOCTORS . 107.
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Página 187 - He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress (Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers), And marked the mild, angelic air, The rapture of repose that's there...
Página 76 - For nought so vile that on the earth doth live, But to the earth some special good doth give...
Página 19 - Being asked if he could remember Queen Anne, — " He had (he said) a confused, but somehow a sort of solemn recollection of a lady in diamonds, and a long black hood."* This touch, however, was without any effect.
Página 258 - When the ear heard me, then it blessed me : and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me : because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me ; and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Página 187 - And — but for that sad shrouded eye, That fires not, wins not, weeps not now, And but for that chill, changeless brow, Where cold Obstruction's apathy Appalls the gazing mourner's heart...
Página 108 - The smooth, soft air with pulse-like waves Flows murmuring through its hidden caves, Whose streams of brightening purple rush, Fired with a new and livelier blush, While all their burden of decay The ebbing current steals away, And red with Nature's flame they start From the warm fountains of the heart. No rest that throbbing slave may ask, Forever quivering o'er his task, While far and wide a crimson jet Leaps forth to fill the woven net Which in unnumbered crossing tides The flood of burning life...
Página 219 - A principal fruit of Friendship is, the ease and discharge of the fulness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce. We know diseases of stoppings and suffocations are the most dangerous in the body, and it is not much otherwise in the mind...
Página 257 - Herostratus lives that burnt the temple of Diana, he is almost lost that built it ; Time hath spared the epitaph of Adrian's horse, confounded that of himself. In vain we compute our felicities by the advantage of our good names, since bad have...
Página 28 - A gentleman entered the room bearing a rod, and along with him another who had a table-cloth, which, after they had both kneeled three times with the utmost veneration, he spread upon the table, and, after kneeling again, they both retired. Then came two others, one with the rod again, the other with a...
Página 29 - At the end of all this ceremonial a number of unmarried ladies appeared, who, with particular solemnity, lifted the meat off the, table, and conveyed it into the queen's inner and more private chamber, where, after she had chosen for herself, the rest goes to the ladies of the court.