 | Early English newspapers - 1815 - 712 pages
...hypocbondnack amused himself in versify,,,*; tin) affect ingly ludicrou. description," ID the followiag lines : "A miracle, my friends, come view, A man, admit his own words true, 504 [Dec, Who lives without a sonl ; Nor lirer, lungs, nor heart, has be, Yet, sometimes, can as cheerful... | |
 | 1822 - 666 pages
...ago, there ere two hypochondriacs at the retreat ;ar York; one wrote the following ;rses : — • A miracle, my friends, come view, A man, admit his own words true, Who 1 i v.'s without a soul. Nor lirer, lungs, nor heart, has he, Yet sometimes can as cheerful bo As if... | |
 | Medicine - 1846 - 98 pages
...in England. He, it seems, fancied himself destitute of heart, liver* brain, and everything else. " A miracle, my friends come view ! A man, (admit his own words true) Who lives without a soul ; No liver, lungs, nor heart has he ; Yet sometimes can as cheerful be As if he had the whole. , His... | |
 | Arts - 1863 - 828 pages
...assez plaisante, il s'en divertit en donnant ainsi cours à sa verve : A miracle my friends, corne view, A man, admit his own words true, Who lives without a soûl ! Nor liver, longs, nor heart,-has lie, Yet sometimes can as cheerful be As if he had thé whole.... | |
 | Sir John Charles Bucknill - 1874 - 880 pages
...hard as iron, and sometimes as soft as a pudding." Another patient, equally deranged, thus described him in verse :— "A miracle, my friends, come view,...words true, Who lives without a soul ; Nor liver, longs, nor heart has he, Yet, sometimes, can as cheerful be As if he had the whole ! " His head (take... | |
 | Andrew Wynter - 1877 - 312 pages
...cinder ; I have no brain, and my head is sometimes as hard as iron and sometimes as soft as a pudding." A miracle, my friends, come view, A man, admit his...true, Who lives without a soul ; Nor liver, lungs, nor head has he, Yet, sometimes, can as cheerful be As if he had the whole. His head (take his own words... | |
 | Andrew Wynter, Joseph Mortimer Granville - Mental Disorders - 1877 - 336 pages
...cinder ; I have no brain, and my head is sometimes as hard as iron and sometimes as soft as a pudding." A miracle, my friends, come view, A man, admit his...true, Who lives without a soul ; Nor liver, lungs, nor head has he, Yet, sometimes, can as cheerful be As if he had the whole. His head (take his own words... | |
 | Medicine - 1895 - 446 pages
...not be left much of it. Dr. Tuke relates, however, another patient equally deranged. Thus described in verse: '•A miracle, my friends: come view A man,...words true, Who lives without a soul ; Nor liver, heart nor lungs has he, Yet sometimes can as cheerful be As if he had the whole! ••His head (take... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1814 - 642 pages
...hypochondriac, amused himself in versifying this affectingly-ludicrous description in the following lines : " A miracle ! my friends, come view A man (admit his...without a soul : Nor liver, lungs, nor heart, has he> Tet sometimes can as cheerful be. At if he hid the whole. " His head (like his own words alón»} No«-... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1815 - 756 pages
...affictingly ludicrous description, in the followiog lines : "-A ^,raclp,.mv f^euds, » mari, admit fiVs own Who lives without a soul ; Nor liver, lungs, nor heart,...has he, Yet, sometimes, can as cheerful be, As if he bad the whole. His head (take his own words along) Now hard as ir6n,'yet ere long Is soft as anyjelly... | |
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Yet, sometimes, can as cheerful be, As if he had the whole. His head (take his own words along) Now hard as iron, yet ere long Is soft as any jelly ; All burnt his sinews and his lungs ; Of his complaints, not fifty tongues Could find enough to tell ye.... 