The doctor, &c., vol. 4 (of 7)

THE AUTHOR APOSTROPHIZES SOME OF HIS FAIR READERS; LOOKS FARTHER THAN THEY ARE LIKELY TO DO, AND GIVES THEM A JUST THOUGH MELANCHOLY EXHORTATION TO BE CHEERFUL WHILE THEY MAY.

In midst of plenty only to embrace Calm patience, is not worthy of your praise; But he that can look sorrow in the face And not be daunted, he deserves the bays. This is prosper...

It seems that you take pleasure in these walks Sir. _Cleanthes_. Contemplative content I do, my Lord; They bring into my mind oft meditations So sweetly precious, that in the pa...

And sure there seem of human kind Some born to shun the solemn strife; Some for amusive tasks design'd To soothe the certain ills of life, Grace its lone vales with many a buddi...

A TRANSITIONAL CHAPTER, WHEREIN THE AUTHOR COMPARES HIS BOOK TO AN OMNIBUS AND A SHIP, QUOTES SHAKESPEARE, MARCO ANTONIO DE CAMOS, QUARLES, SPENSER, AND SOMEBODY ELSE, AND INTRO...

That place that does contain My books, the best companions, is to me A glorious court, where hourly I converse With the old sages and philosophers; And sometimes for variety I c...

THOMAS GENT AND ALICE GUY, A TRUE TALE, SHOWING THAT A WOMAN'S CONSTANCY WILL NOT ALWAYS HOLD OUT LONGER THAN TROY TOWN, AND YET THE WOMAN MAY NOT BE THE PARTY WHO IS MOST IN FA...

Black spirits and white, red spirits and gray; Mingle, mingle, mingle, you that mingle may. Titty, Tiffin, keep it stiff in! Firedrake, Puckey, make it lucky! Liard, Robin, you...

This insertion is somewhat long, and utterly impertinent to the principal matter, and makes a great gap in the tale; nevertheless is no disgrace, but rather a beauty and to very...

But in these serious works designed To mend the morals of mankind, We must for ever be disgraced With all the nicer sons of taste, If once the shadow to pursue We let the substa...

_Y donde sobre todo de su dueño El gran tesoro y el caudal se infiere, Es que al grande, al mediano, y al pequeño, Todo se da de balde á quien lo quiere._

This field is so spacious, that it were easy for a man to lose himself in it; and if I should spend all my pilgrimage in this walk, my time would sooner end than my way.

Perhaps some Gull, as witty as a Goose, Says with a coy skew look, “it's pretty, pretty! But yet that so much wit he should dispose For so small purpose, faith” saith he, “'tis...

Every man can say B to a battledore, and write in praise of virtue and the seven liberal sciences; thresh corn out of full sheaves, and fetch water out of the Thames. But out of...

THE AUTHOR APOSTROPHIZES SOME OF HIS FAIR READERS; LOOKS FARTHER THAN THEY ARE LIKELY TO DO, AND GIVES THEM A JUST THOUGH MELANCHOLY EXHORTATION TO BE CHEERFUL WHILE THEY MAY.

In midst of plenty only to embrace Calm patience, is not worthy of your praise; But he that can look sorrow in the face And not be daunted, he deserves the bays. This is prosper...

It seems that you take pleasure in these walks Sir. _Cleanthes_. Contemplative content I do, my Lord. They bring into my mind oft meditations So sweetly precious, that in the pa...

And sure there seem of human kind Some born to shun the solemn strife; Some for amusive tasks design'd To soothe the certain ills of life, Grace its lone vales with many a buddi...

A TRANSITIONAL CHAPTER, WHEREIN THE AUTHOR COMPARES HIS BOOK TO AN OMNIBUS AND A SHIP, QUOTES SHAKESPEARE, MARCO ANTONIO DE CAMOS, QUARLES, SPENSER, AND SOMEBODY ELSE, AND INTRO...

The reader has now been informed who Mrs. Dove was, and what she was on that day of mingled joy and grief when the bells of St. George's welcomed her to Doncaster as a bride. En...

That place that does contain My books, the best companions, is to me A glorious court, where hourly I converse With the old sages and philosophers; And sometimes for variety I c...

THOMAS GENT AND ALICE GUY, A TRUE TALE, SHOWING THAT A WOMAN'S CONSTANCY WILL NOT ALWAYS HOLD OUT LONGER THAN TROY TOWN, AND YET THE WOMAN MAY NOT BE THE PARTY WHO IS MOST IN FA...

If I were given to prolixity, and allowed myself to be led away from the subject before me, I might here be tempted to relate certain particulars concerning Thomas Gent; how und...

I cannot think so meanly of my gentle readers as to suppose that any of them can have forgotten the story of the Japanese Prince Abino Jassima, and the gradual but lamentable me...

Black spirits and white, red spirits and gray; Mingle, mingle, mingle, you that mingle may. Titty, Tiffin, keep it stiff in! Firedrake, Puckey, make it lucky! Liard, Robin, you...

This insertion is somewhat long, and utterly impertinent to the principal matter, and makes a great gap in the tale; nevertheless is no disgrace, but rather a beauty and to very...

But in these serious works designed To mend the morals of mankind, We must for ever be disgraced With all the nicer sons of taste, If once the shadow to pursue We let the substa...

A practitioner of medicine possesses in what may be called his cure, that knowledge of all who are under his care, which the parochial priest used to possess in former times, an...

If the elder Daniel had thought that the moral feelings and religious principles of his son were likely to be endangered by the study of medicine, he would never have been induc...

But the practice both of medicine and of surgery, whatever might be the religion of the practitioner, was obnoxious to suspicions for which the manners of antiquity, of the dark...

Another reproach to which the medical profession was exposed arose from the preparatory studies which it required. The natural but unreflecting sentiment of horror with which an...

Gentle reader,—and if gentle, good reader,—and if good, patient reader; for if not gentle, then not good; and if not good, then not gentle; and neither good nor gentle, if not p...

It is a melancholy consideration that Fame is as unjust as Fortune. To Fortune indeed injustice ought not to be imputed, for Fortune is blind, and disposes of her favours at ran...

Guess, Reader, where I once saw a full-sized figure of Fame, erect, tip-toe in the act of springing to take flight and soar aloft, her neck extended, her head raised, the trumpe...

That dwelling house which the reader may find represented in Miller's History of Doncaster, as it was in his time, and in the Doctor's, and in mine,—that house in which the pape...

Like Mason, Dr. Dove looked to the future in that sure and certain hope without which the present would be intolerable to a thinking mind and feeling heart. But in his speculati...

Many facts in illustration or exemplification of the Doctor's theory concerning progressive existence must have occurred to every one within the circle of his own observations....

_Y donde sobre todo de su dueño El gran tesoro y el caudal se infiere, Es que al grande, al mediano, y al pequeño, Todo se da de balde á quien lo quiere._

O dear little children, you who are in the happiest season of human life, how will you delight in the Story of the Three Bears, when Mamma reads it to you out of this nice book,...

This field is so spacious, that it were easy for a man to lose himself in it; and if I should spend all my pilgrimage in this walk, my time would sooner end than my way.

Dr. Cadogan used to say that the life of man is properly ninety years instead of three-score and ten; thirty to go up, thirty to stand still, and thirty to go down.

If we look to the better part of the human race as well as the worse, with regard to them also the ordinary term of human life will be found the best that could have been appoin...

The Reader is now so far acquainted with the Doctor and his bride elect, (for we are still in the Interim,)—he knows so much of the birth, parentage and education of both, so mu...

Perhaps some Gull, as witty as a Goose, Says with a coy skew look, “it's pretty, pretty! But yet that so much wit he should dispose For so small purpose, faith” saith he, “'tis...

_Theo._ Look to my Horse, I pray you, well. _Diego._ He shall Sir. _Inc._ Oh! how beneath his rank and call was that now! Your Horse shall be entreated as becomes A Horse of fas...