The Funny side of physic: or, The Mysteries of medicineJ.B. Burr & Hyde, 1872 - 816 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα 561 - and ground! You see, of course, if you're not a dunce, How it went to pieces all at once, — All at once and nothing first, — Just as bubbles do when they burst. ] End of the wonderful one-hoss shay. Logic is logic. That's all I say.
Σελίδα 561 - doubt, In another hour it will be worn out. First of November, fifty-five ! This morning the parson takes a drive. Now, small boys, get out of the way ! Here comes the wonderful one-hoss shay, Drawn by a rat-tailed, ewe-necked bay. " Huddup ! " said the parson. Off went they. The parson was working his Sunday's text, Had got
Σελίδα 280 - O, proper stuff! This is the very painting of your fear ; This is the air-drawn dagger which you said Led you to Duncan ! O, these flaws and starts (Impostors to true fear) would well become A woman's story at a winter's fire,* Authorized by her grandam. Shame itself!
Σελίδα 63 - Need and oppression starveth in thy eyes; Upon thy back hangs ragged misery; The world is not thy friend, nor the world's law; The world affords no law to make thee rich; Then be not poor, but break it, and take this. My poverty, but not my will, consents.
Σελίδα 557 - mighty plain That the weakcs" place mus" stan' the strain ; 'n' the way t' fix it, uz I maintain, Is only jest T' make that place uz strong uz the rest." So the deacon inquired of the village folk Where lie could find the strongest oak, That couldn't
Σελίδα 558 - fresh as on Lisbon Earthquake day ! Eighteen hundred : it came and found The deacon's masterpiece strong and sound. Eighteen hundred increased by ten : " Hansum kerridge " they called it then. Eighteen hundred and twenty came, — Running as usual ; much the same. Thirty and forty at last
Σελίδα 557 - split, nor bent, nor broke, — That was for spokes, and floor, and sills; He sent for lancewood to make the thills ; The cross-bars were ash, from the straightest trees; The panels of white-wood, that cuts like cheese, But
Σελίδα 393 - O, it was pitiful ! Near a whole city full, Home she had none. " Sisterly, brotherly, Fatherly, motherly Feelings had changed; Love, by harsh evidence, Thrown from its eminence, Even God's providence Seeming estranged.
Σελίδα 666 - green in youth, now withering on the ground ; Another race the following spring supplies ; They fall successive, and successive rise ; So generations in their course decay, So flourish these when those have passed away.
Σελίδα 63 - poison now, Whose sale is present death in Mantua, Here lives a caitiff wretch would sell it him.' What, ho ! apothecary ! Apothecary. Who calls so loud? Romeo. Come hither, man ! I see that thou art poor. Hold! There is forty ducats