Mr. Oldmixon: A NovelD. Appleton, 1885 - 456 pages |
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Page 182 - See one physician, like a sculler plies, The patient lingers and by inches dies, But two physicians, like a pair of oars, Waft him more swiftly to the Stygian shores.
Page 364 - Murder? Ghost. Murder most foul, as in the best it is ; But this most foul, strange, and unnatural.
Page 73 - ... protects and watches over him. For these two combined reasons — first, that my body, even after death, may continue to be made useful; and, secondly, that it may be made instrumental, as far as possible, in furnishing a substitute for the protection of the bodies of my dear friends, the cats — I do hereby devise and bequeath the intestines of my body to be made up into fiddlestrings, the proceeds to be devoted to the purchase of an...
Page 213 - There's a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack!
Page 364 - I have heard That guilty creatures, sitting at a play, Have by the very cunning of the scene Been struck so to the soul that presently They have proclaim'd their malefactions; For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ.
Page 102 - I say to you, it will be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city!
Page 73 - ... and ever, without cessation day or night, in order that the cats may have the privilege of always hearing and enjoying that instrument which is the nearest approach to their natural voice.
Page 32 - ... have they dealt On one another; pity ceased to melt With her once natural charities. But they, Who in oppression's darkness caved had dwelt, They were not eagles, nourish'd with the day; What marvel then, at times, if they mistook their prey?
Page 446 - I thought, as we went along the skirts of a wood, where the great branches were swaying about like twigs, and the rushing sound was terrible. "I wish we were well out of this wood," said my master. " Yes, sir," said John, " it would be rather awkward if one of these branches came down upon us.