Rambles in Europe, in 1839: With Sketches of Prominent Surgeons, Physicians, Medical Schools, Hospitals, Literary Personages, Scenery, Etc |
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Page 148 - Each purple peak, each flinty spire, Was bathed in floods of living fire. But not a setting beam could glow Within the dark ravines below, Where twined the path in shadow hid, Round many a rocky pyramid, Shooting abruptly from the dell Its thunder-splintered pinnacle; Round many an insulated mass, The native bulwarks of the pass, Huge as the tower which builders vain Presumptuous piled on Shinar's plain. The rocky summits, split and rent, Formed turret, dome, or battlement, Or seemed fantastically...
Page 110 - The arm that used to take your arm Is took to Dr. Vyse ; , And both my legs are gone to walk The hospital at Guy's.
Page 110 - I wish you'd go to Mr. P. And save me such a ride ; I don't half like the outside place, They've took for my inside. The cock it crows — I must be gone ! My William, we must part ! But I'll be yours in death, altho
Page 109 - I went to my long home, I didn't stay long in it. The body-snatchers they have come. And made a snatch at me ; It's...
Page 148 - I little thought, when first thy rein I slacked upon the banks of Seine, That Highland eagle e'er should feed On thy fleet limbs, my matchless steed ! Woe worth the chase, woe worth the day, That costs thy life, my gallant grey!
Page 69 - Maintenance of the honour and respectability of the Profession, generally, in the Provinces, by promoting friendly intercourse and free communication of its Members, and by establishing among them the harmony and good feeling which ought ever to characterise a liberal profession.
Page 148 - And turned him from the opposing rock ; Then, dashing down a darksome glen, Soon lost to hound and hunter's ken, In the deep Trosach's wildest nook His solitary refuge took.
Page 110 - Sir Astley has my heart. Don't go to weep upon my grave, And think that there I be ; They haven't left an atom there Of my anatomie.
Page 148 - But, stumbling in the rugged dell, The gallant horse exhausted fell. The impatient rider strove in vain To rouse him with the spur and rein, For the good steed, his...
Page 53 - He acts upon the principle that if a thing is worth doing at all it is worth doing well : — and the thing that he " does" especially well is the public.
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Passionate Pilgrims: The American Traveler in Great Britain, 1800-1914 Allison Lockwood Limited preview - 1981 |