Passages from the diary of a late physicianWilliam Blackwood and sons, 1854 |
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agita agitation alarm Alverley ancholy apoplexy Apsley arms attended baronet Beauchamp beautiful called calm Captain carriage choly Colonel St Helen continued daugh dear dear doctor doctor door dreadful dress Dudleigh Effingstone Elliott excitement exclaimed eyes face faint father fearful feelings felt hand head hear heard heart honour hour hurried husband inquired instantly Lady Anne laudanum length letter lips look Lord Seckington melan ment mind morning mother ness never night nine o'clock o'clock occasion Old Bailey once pale patient paused poor portunity profes quired racter recollect replied scarcely scene seemed servant sigh silence Sir Henry sitting smile Somerfield soon spirits Stafford stood sudden suddenly suffered tears tell thing thought tion told tone trembled turbed turned uttered voice walked whispered wife woman word wretched young
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Page 442 - 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.
Page 283 - And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.
Page 389 - 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: Who would not sing for Lycidas? he knew...
Page 305 - And when he came into the house, he suffered no man to go in, save Peter, and James, and John, and the father and the mother of the maiden. And all wept, and bewailed her ; but he said, Weep not ; she is not dead, but sleepeth.
Page 305 - ... that she was not hid, she came trembling, and falling down before him, she declared unto him before all the people for what cause she had touched him, and how she was healed immediately.
Page 367 - LORD, by thy favour thou hast made my mountain to stand strong : thou didst hide thy face, and I was troubled. 8 I cried to thee, O LORD ; and unto the LORD I made supplication. 9 What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?
Page 305 - And all wept, and bewailed her : but he said, Weep not ; she is not dead, but sleepeth. And they laughed him to scorn, knowing that she was dead. And he put them all out, and took her by the hand, and called, saying, Maid, arise. And her spirit came again, and she arose straightway : and he commanded to give her meat.
Page 304 - PEACE be to this house, and to all that dwell in it. IT When he cometh into the sick man's presence, he shall say, kneeling down, REMEMBER not, LORD, our iniquities, nor the iniquities of our forefathers ; Spare us, good LORD, spare thy people, whom thou hast redeemed with thy most precious blood ; and be not angry with us for ever.
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