The doctor, &c., vol. 2 (of 7)

Let none our Author rudely blame Who from the story has thus long digrest; But for his righteous pains may his fair fame For ever travel, whilst his ashes rest.

Do, pious marble, let thy readers know What they and what their children owe To Drayton's name, whose sacred dust We recommend unto thy trust. Protect his memory, and preserve h...

ANECDOTES OF PETER HEYLYN AND LIGHTFOOT, EXEMPLIFYING THAT GREAT KNOWLEDGE IS NOT ALWAYS APPLICABLE TO LITTLE THINGS; AND THAT AS CHARITY BEGINS AT HOME, SO IT MAY WITH EQUAL TR...

THE READER IS LED TO INFER THAT A TRAVELLER WHO STOPS UPON THE WAY TO SKETCH, BOTANIZE, ENTOMOLOGIZE OR MINERALOGIZE, TRAVELS WITH MORE PLEASURE AND PROFIT TO HIMSELF THAN IF HE...

If they which employ their labour and travail about the public administration of justice, follow it only as a trade, with unquenchable and unconscionable thirst of gain, being n...

I can write, and talk too, as soft as other men, _with submission to better judgements,—and I leave it to you Gentlemen. I am but one, and I always distrust myself. I only hint...

Say ancient edifice, thyself with years Grown grey, how long upon the hill has stood Thy weather-braving tower, and silent mark'd The human leaf in constant bud and fall? The ge...

_Vieux monuments,— Las, peu à peu cendre vous devenez, Fable du peuple et publiques rapines! Et bien qu'au Temps pour un temps facent guerre Les bastimens, si est ce que le Temp...

They unto whom we shall appear tedious, are in no wise injured by us, because it is in their own hands to spare that labour which they are not willing to endure.

Heaven is the magazine wherein He puts Both good and evil; Prayer's the key that shuts And opens this great treasure: 'tis a key Whose wards are Faith and Hope and Charity. Woul...

Glory to Thee in thine omnipotence, O Lord who art our shield and our defence, And dost dispense, As seemeth best to thine unerring will, (Which passeth mortal sense) The lot of...

He took great content, exceeding delight in that his voyage. As who doth not that shall attempt the like?—For peregrination charms our senses with such unspeakable and sweet var...

_Il creder, donne vaghe, è cortesia, Quando colui che scrive o che favella, Possa essere sospetto di bugia, Per dir qualcosa troppo rara e bella. Dunque chi ascolta questa istor...

Let cavillers know, that as the Lord John answered the Queen in that Italian Guazzo, an old, a grave discreet man is fittest to discourse of love-matters; because he hath likely...

_Fuere quondam, hæc sed fuere; Nunc ubi sint, rogitas? Id annos Scire hos oportet scilicet. O bonæ Musæ, O Lepôres—O Charites meræ! O gaudia offuscata nullis Litibus! O sine nub...

Be then thine own home, and in thyself dwell; Inn any where; And seeing the snail, which every where doth roam, Carrying his own home still, still is at home, Follow (for he is...

TRANSITION IN OUR NARRATIVE PREPARATORY TO A CHANGE IN THE DOCTOR'S LIFE. A SAD STORY SUPPRESSED. THE AUTHOR PROTESTS AGAINST PLAYING WITH THE FEELINGS OF HIS READERS. ALL ARE N...

IN WHICH THE FOURTH OF THE QUESTIONS PROPOSED IN CHAPTER II. P. I. IS BEGUN TO BE ANSWERED; SOME OBSERVATIONS UPON ANCESTRY ARE INTRODUCED, AND THE READER IS INFORMED WHY THE AU...

Love built a stately house; where Fortune came, And spinning fancies, she was heard to say That her fine cobwebs did support the frame; Whereas they were supported by the same....

Beauty! my Lord,—'tis the worst part of woman! A weak poor thing, assaulted every hour By creeping minutes of defacing time; A superficies which each breath of care Blasts off;...

There is no argument of more antiquity and elegancy than is the matter of Love; for it seems to be as old as the world, and to bear date from the first time that man and woman w...

They do lie, Lie grossly who say Love is blind,—by him And Heaven they lie! he has a sight can pierce Thro' ivory, as clear as it were horn, And reach his object.

How would it have astonished Peter Hopkins if some one gifted with the faculty of second sight had foretold to him that, at the sale of Pews in a new Church at Doncaster, eighte...

Let none our Author rudely blame Who from the story has thus long digrest; But for his righteous pains may his fair fame For ever travel, whilst his ashes rest.

Doncaster is built upon a peninsula, or ridge of land, about a mile across, having a gentle slope from east to west, and bounded on the west by the river; this ridge is composed...

Do, pious marble, let thy readers know What they and what their children owe To Drayton's name, whose sacred dust We recommend unto thy trust. Protect his memory, and preserve h...

ANECDOTES OF PETER HEYLYN AND LIGHTFOOT, EXEMPLIFYING THAT GREAT KNOWLEDGE IS NOT ALWAYS APPLICABLE TO LITTLE THINGS; AND THAT AS CHARITY BEGINS AT HOME, SO IT MAY WITH EQUAL TR...

THE READER IS LED TO INFER THAT A TRAVELLER WHO STOPS UPON THE WAY TO SKETCH, BOTANIZE, ENTOMOLOGIZE OR MINERALOGIZE, TRAVELS WITH MORE PLEASURE AND PROFIT TO HIMSELF THAN IF HE...

Well, reader, I have told thee something concerning the topography of Doncaster: and now in due order, and as in duty bound, will I give thee a sketch of its history; “_summa se...

If they which employ their labour and travail about the public administration of justice, follow it only as a trade, with unquenchable and unconscionable thirst of gain, being n...

Well, gentle Reader, we have made our way through the Charters, and seen that the Borough of Doncaster is, as it may be called, an _imperium in imperio_—or _regnum_, or rather i...

Say ancient edifice, thyself with years Grown grey, how long upon the hill has stood Thy weather-braving tower, and silent mark'd The human leaf in constant bud and fall? The ge...

_Vieux monuments,— Las, peu à peu cendre vous devenez, Fable du peuple et publiques rapines! Et bien qu'au Temps pour un temps facent guerre Les bastimens, si est ce que le Temp...

They unto whom we shall appear tedious, are in no wise injured by us, because it is in their own hands to spare that labour which they are not willing to endure.

Let good old Fuller answer the well-known question which is conveyed in the motto to this chapter. “And here,” he says, “be it remembered, that the same epithet in several place...

It was in the Mayoralty of Thomas Pheasant (as has already been said) and in the year of our Lord 1739, that Daniel Dove the younger, having then entered upon his seventeenth ye...

The first years of Daniel's abode in Doncaster were distinguished by many events of local memorability. The old Friar's bridge was taken down, and a new one with one large arch...

Heaven is the magazine wherein He puts Both good and evil; Prayer's the key that shuts And opens this great treasure: 'tis a key Whose wards are Faith and Hope and Charity. Woul...

Glory to Thee in thine omnipotence, O Lord who art our shield and our defence, And dost dispense, As seemeth best to thine unerring will, (Which passeth mortal sense) The lot of...

He took great content, exceeding delight in that his voyage. As who doth not that shall attempt the like?—For peregrination charms our senses with such unspeakable and sweet var...

The arms of Leyden are two cross keys, gules in a field argent; and having been entrusted with the power of those keys to bind and to loose,—and moreover to bleed and to blister...

_Il creder, donne vaghe, è cortesia, Quando colui che scrive o che favella, Possa essere sospetto di bugia, Per dir qualcosa troppo rara e bella. Dunque chi ascolta questa istor...

Let cavillers know, that as the Lord John answered the Queen in that Italian Guazzo, an old, a grave discreet man is fittest to discourse of love-matters; because he hath likely...

Whether chance or choice have most to do in the weighty concerns of love and matrimony, is as difficult a question, as whether chance or skill have most influence upon a game at...

_Fuere quondam hæc sed fuere; Nunc ubi sint, rogitas? Id annos Scire hos oportet scilicet. O bonæ Musæ, O Lepôres—O Charites meræ! O gaudia offuscata nullis Litibus! O sine nube...

Well might Ben Jonson call bell-ringing “the poetry of steeples!” It is a poetry which in some heart or other is always sure to move an accordant key; and there is not much of t...

I must not allow the feminine part of my readers to suppose that the Doctor when in his prime of life, was not a very likeable person in appearance, as well as in every thing el...

“Here perchance,”—(observe, Reader, I am speaking now in the words of the Lord Keeper, Sir Nicholas Bacon,)—“here perchance a question would be asked,—(and yet I do marvel to he...

In reporting progress upon the subject of the preceding chapter, it appears that the question asked concerning the question that was answered, was not itself answered in that ch...

“Yes, Sir,—_vous ne recevrez de moy, sur le commencement et milieu de celuy-cy mien chapitre que bouffonnerie; et toutesfois bouffonnerie qui porte quant à soy une philosophie e...

Wherefore there is no portrait of my excellent friend, is a question which ought to be answered, because the solution will exhibit something of what in the words of the old drin...

Here I must relate a circumstance which occurred during the few hours of my last, and by me ever-to-be-remembered visit to Doncaster. As we were on the way from the Old Angel In...

Good and satisfactory likenesses may, beyond all doubt, be taken of Mr. Everydayman himself, and indeed of most persons: and were it otherwise, portrait-painting would be a wors...

The reader will mistake me greatly if he supposes that in showing why it was impossible there should be a good portrait of Dr. Daniel Dove, I meant to depreciate the art of port...

Be then thine own home, and in thyself dwell; Inn any where; And seeing the snail, which every where doth roam, Carrying his own home still, still is at home, Follow (for he is...

There was one house in Doncaster in which cards were never introduced; this house was Netherhall the seat of Mr. Copley; and there Dr. Dove had the advantage of such society as...

It is related of the great mythological personage Baly, that Veeshnoo, when he dispossessed him of his impious power, allowed him in mitigation of his lot, to make his choice, w...

Have patience good reader, and hear me to the end! There is a reason why it seems so; and the reason is, because all such eccentricities are recorded here in newspapers and maga...

The Doctor always spoke of Bingley as a melancholy example of strength of character misapplied. But he used to say that strength of character was far from implying strength of m...

“Happy,” said Dr. Dove, “is the man, who having his whole time thrown upon his hands makes no worse use of it than to practise eight hours a day upon a bad fiddle.” It was a sur...

TRANSITION IN OUR NARRATIVE PREPARATORY TO A CHANGE IN THE DOCTOR'S LIFE. A SAD STORY SUPPRESSED. THE AUTHOR PROTESTS AGAINST PLAYING WITH THE FEELINGS OF HIS READERS. ALL ARE N...

IN WHICH THE FOURTH OF THE QUESTIONS PROPOSED IN CHAPTER II. P. I. IS BEGUN TO BE ANSWERED; SOME OBSERVATIONS UPON ANCESTRY ARE INTRODUCED, AND THE READER IS INFORMED WHY THE AU...

Love built a stately house; where Fortune came, And spinning fancies, she was heard to say That her fine cobwebs did support the frame; Whereas they were supported by the same....

Beauty! my Lord,—'tis the worst part of woman! A weak poor thing, assaulted every hour By creeping minutes of defacing time; A superficies which each breath of care Blasts off;...

There is no argument of more antiquity and elegancy than is the matter of Love; for it seems to be as old as the world, and to bear date from the first time that man and woman w...

They do lie, Lie grossly who say Love is blind,—by him And Heaven they lie! he has a sight can pierce Thro' ivory, as clear as it were horn, And reach his object.

I will not describe the subsequent interviews between Leonard and his cousin, short and broken but precious as they were; nor that parting one in which hands were plighted, with...