10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DROPSIED»
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dropsied in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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1
The Ohio medical and surgical reporter. Volume I-XI. ...
Some two weeks after my attention was called to him again ; found him
completely dropsied, putting on the appearance of a very fat little man, and very
weak. From the dryness of his skin, and being assisted by having observed
persons ...
Some two weeks after my attention was called to him again ; found him
completely dropsied, put~ ting on the appearance of a very fat little man, and very
weak. From the dryness of his skin, and being assisted by having observed
persons ...
This tension, I will also argue, literally resonates with the white noise of its
historical moment, and in ways that underscore how swollen bodies, pregnant or
dropsied, were thoroughly implicated in discourses of the English body politic.
Mary Floyd-Wilson, Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr., 2006
4
The Shakspeare Treasury of Wisdom and Knowledge
Where great additions swell, and virtue none, It is a dropsied honor. Mi's Well, ii.
3. This is a figure of speech borrowed from that pathological condition in which a
" dropsied " or puffy roundness of surface may be mistaken for normal, healthy ...
Charles Woodward Stearns, 1871
5
The Roving Editor: Or, Talks with Slaves in the Southern States
Yet that there are advantages in a national creed I saw, and thus stated, after
reading a speech by Senator Douglas, in which he used in substance the
expressions here attributed to him : The Dropsied Dwarf of Illinois, By brother
sneaka ...
6
Hikayat Pòchut Muhamat. Anglais. 1979:
[2fi2-fi4] Hearing "What's not proper you make look proper" in our story,
Atjehnese may well have filled in "dropsied feet you cover with hells" as well as
rememhering the lines hefore this one. Si Meuseukin as a hridegroom is
someone who, ...
7
The Triumphal Sun: A Study of the Works of Jalaloddin Rumi
Heart and soul, more feverish than dust, seize the jar like dropsied people, 'Water
! Water!'11 The swollen body of the dropsied person is even compared to a drum
which constantly repeats the call for more water, an image perhaps taken over ...
8
Sunday readings taken from the Epistles and Gospels ...
The Jewish Sabbath was observed with great strictness ; none but the most
necessary work was allowed to be done throughout the whole day. — Therefore,
upon the present occasion, when the dropsied man was brought before our
Saviour, ...
9
Roving Editor: Or Talks with Slaves in the Southern States, ...
The Dropsied Dwarf of Illinois, By brother sneaks called "Little Giant" He who
made so great a noise By being to the Slave Power pliant, Upon the Senate floor
one day "Rebuking" Freedom's friends, did say: "Republicans must stay at home,
...
All's Well That Ends Well explicitly evokes these connections in the lines that link
Bertram (in his association with Parolles) with the puffing up of pride (“Where
great additions swell's and virtue none, / it is a dropsied honor,” II.iii.127–28).
