Dr. North and His Friends, Том 6Century Company, 1905 - 499 страница A prominent physician, this author was well known in his day for introducing the "rest cure" for nervous diseases including hysteria. In this cure, patients were treated in isolation, confined to bed, and underwent prescribed diet and massage. In addition to his medical practice, this author was also a well-known writer in the genre of medical drama. This particular novel is semi-autobiographical. |
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Страница 18 - It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log, at last, dry, bald, and sere: A lily of a day, Is fairer far, in May, Although it fall, and die that night; It was the plant, and flower of light. In small proportions, we just beauties see: And in short measures, life may perfect be.
Страница 265 - Casting the body's vest aside, My soul into the boughs does glide: There like a bird it sits, and sings, Then whets, and combs its silver wings; And, till prepared for longer flight, Waves in its plumes the various light. Such was that happy garden-state, While man there walked without a mate: After a place so pure, and sweet, What other help could yet be meet!
Страница 490 - HAIL, beauteous stranger of the grove! Thou messenger of spring ! Now Heaven repairs thy rural seat, And woods thy welcome sing. What time the daisy decks the green, Thy certain voice we hear; Hast thou a star to guide thy path, Or mark the rolling year? Delightful visitant ! with thee I hail the time of flowers, And hear the sound of music sweet, From birds among the bowers.
Страница 226 - It is a commonplace of the schools that man is a little world, in which we may discern a body mingled of earthy elements and ethereal breath, and the vegetable life of plants, and the senses of the lower animals, and reason, and the intelligence of angels, and a likeness to God") A.
Страница 356 - God rest you, merry gentlemen, Let nothing you dismay, For Jesus Christ our Saviour Was born on Christmas Day.
Страница 378 - A new song should be sweetly sung, It goes but to the ear ; A new song should be sweetly sung, For it touches no one near : But an old song may be roughly sung ; The ear forgets its art, As comes upon the rudest tongue, The tribute to the heart.
Страница 265 - twas beyond a mortal's share To wander solitary there : Two paradises are in one, To live in paradise alone. How well the skilful gardener drew Of flowers, and herbs, this dial new, Where, from above, the milder sun Does through a fragrant zodiac run, And, as it works...
Страница 235 - Piccadittia-hall, lest if mischance befall me, and be suddenly noised (as it falleth out in these occasions now between us) you might receive some harm by some of my friends that lodge thereabouts." "My Lord (replyes Goring) I have no way but one to answer this courtesie : I have here by chance in my Pocket a Warrent to pass the Ports out of England, without a Name (gotten, I suppose, upon some other occasion before). If you leave me here, take it for your use, and put it in your own name.
Страница 150 - had that fine honor which is to honesty as is the flower to the leaf." "Society is kept in existence by a series of moral credits." And from Dr. North — "In fact the brain in those who grow old wholesomely does not seem to age as does the rest of the human body, nor to feel as distinctly as do the locomotive mechanisms the exasperating vetoes of time.
Страница 378 - It brings not back the strains that rung Through childhood's sunny cot. But an old song may be roughly sung, It tells of days of glee, When the boy to his mother clung, Or danced on his father's knee. On tented fields 'tis welcome still ; Tis sweet in the stormy sea ; In forest wild, on rocky hill, And away on the prairie lea.