The Merchant's Clerk: & Other TalesHarper & brothers, 1836 - 366 páginas |
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... SCENES ; being Passages from the Diary of a late Physician . CONTAINING Early Struggles of the Author - Cancer - The Dentist and the Co- median - A Scholar's Deathbed - Preparing for the House - Duelling -Intriguing and Madness - The ...
... SCENES ; being Passages from the Diary of a late Physician . CONTAINING Early Struggles of the Author - Cancer - The Dentist and the Co- median - A Scholar's Deathbed - Preparing for the House - Duelling -Intriguing and Madness - The ...
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... scene would do her greater good than anything I could prescribe for her . " She sighed . " It might be so ; but I know it could not be done . Circumstances , I believe- " manner . 66 " Is she living with her family ? Could not they ...
... scene would do her greater good than anything I could prescribe for her . " She sighed . " It might be so ; but I know it could not be done . Circumstances , I believe- " manner . 66 " Is she living with her family ? Could not they ...
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... scene of wretchedness had this unhappy creature come to me ? The zealous services of my wife and her maid pres- ently restored my patient , at least to consciousness , and her first look was one of gratitude for their assist- ance . She ...
... scene of wretchedness had this unhappy creature come to me ? The zealous services of my wife and her maid pres- ently restored my patient , at least to consciousness , and her first look was one of gratitude for their assist- ance . She ...
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... scene which presented itself I paused for a few moments to contem- plate . Almost fronting the door , at a table on which were several huge legers and account books , sat a young man apparently about thirty , who seemed to have just ...
... scene which presented itself I paused for a few moments to contem- plate . Almost fronting the door , at a table on which were several huge legers and account books , sat a young man apparently about thirty , who seemed to have just ...
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... scene , fresh air , and some medical treat- ment . " He listened in silence , his eyes fixed on the floor , while an expression of profound melancholy overspread his countenance . He seemed absorbed in a painful revery . I fancied that ...
... scene , fresh air , and some medical treat- ment . " He listened in silence , his eyes fixed on the floor , while an expression of profound melancholy overspread his countenance . He seemed absorbed in a painful revery . I fancied that ...
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agitation arms baronet Bill Fowler black puddings Bloomsbury Square bracelet Bullion House Carl Carl's carriage chair coach companion continued counting house dear Dick door dreadful Drysalt Ebury exclaimed eyes father fearful feelings fell fellow felt Forster gasped guineas hand head hear heard heart highwaymen Hillary's honour horse hour hurried husband inquired instantly lady length letter lips looked Lord Scamp Lord Squander lordship ma'am magistrate matter Mincing Lane mind Miss Hillary monk morning never Newfoundland dog night o'clock Old Bailey opened Oxleigh paused pistol poor Elliott present prisoner pugilism replied scarce scene seat seemed servant silence Sir Diggory Sir William Gwynne sitting soon stairs stood stranger suddenly sure tell thee thing thought tion tone Topknot trembling turned uttered voice wagoner walked whispered wife William Fowler words worship wretched
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Página 349 - Where the great Sun begins his state Robed in flames and amber light, The clouds in thousand liveries dight; While the ploughman, near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrowed land, And the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale.
Página 9 - YET once more, O ye laurels, and once more, Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forced fingers rude Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. Bitter constraint and sad occasion dear Compels me to disturb your season due; For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer.
Página 349 - While the Cock, with lively din, Scatters the rear of darkness thin, And to the stack, or the barn-door, Stoutly struts his Dames before: Oft listening how the Hounds and horn Cheerly rouse the slumbering morn, From the side of some hoar hill, Through the high wood echoing shrill...
Página 349 - Through the high wood echoing shrill : Sometime walking, not unseen, By hedgerow elms, on hillocks green, Right against the eastern gate Where the great Sun begins his state, Robed in flames and amber light, The clouds in thousand liveries dight...
Página 115 - It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.
Página 288 - For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, And, though a late, a sure reward succeeds.