 | John Frederick Boyes - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1865 - 280 pages
...dangerous when we are nearing the harbour: but the medical simile has led me further than I intended. Some fell by laudanum, and some by steel, And death in ambush lay in every pill. GARTH, Dispensary. pressed by the same term (BARROW, Sermon on Vain Glory). Hebrew may well be called... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 470 pages
...meanly asked whole months to slay, I oft dispatched the patient in a day : With pen in hand I pushed to that degree, I scarce had left a wretch to give...claim, Though credit suffers, the reward's the same. What though the art of healing we pretend, He that designs it least, is most a friend. Into the right... | |
 | William Munk, Royal College of Physicians of London - Physicians - 1878 - 522 pages
...meanly ask'd whole months to slay, I oft dispatch'd the patient in a day. With pen in hand, I pushed to that degree, I scarce had left a wretch to give...pill ; For, save or slay, this privilege we claim, — Tho' credit suffers, the reward's the same. And tho' the art of healing we pretend, He that designs... | |
 | Graham Everitt - History of Medicine - 1888 - 444 pages
...numbers fell. While others meanly aek'd whole months to slay I oft dispatch'd the patient in a day: With pen in hand I push'd to that degree, I scarce...every pill; For save or slay, this privilege we claim, Tho" credit suffers, the reward's the same." The apothecaries, of course, gratefully acknowledge the... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1891 - 390 pages
...treatment is here represented, as it was often to be met with in the palmy day's of physic, when — "Some fell by laudanum, and some by steel, And death in ambush lay in ev'ry pill." "The piercing caustics ply their spiteful pow'r, Emetics wrench, and keen cathartics scour.... | |
 | Medicine - 1918 - 454 pages
...sufferers it would be bad enough, but alas' The chief mourner, is the unenlightened public, of whom, "Some fell by laudanum, and some by steel. And Death, In ambush, lay in every pill; The piercing caustics, ply their spiteful power, Emetics wrench and keen carthartics scour; The deadly... | |
 | Sir Samuel Garth, Wilhelm Josef Leicht - 1905 - 610 pages
...: With Pen in Hand I push'd to that degree, gO I scarce had left a Wretck to give a Fee. Some feil by Laudanum, and some by Steel, And Death in Ambush lay in ev'ry Pill. For save or slay, this Privilege we claim, Tho' Credit suffers, the Reward's the same.... | |
 | Gregory G. Colomb - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 260 pages
...Mirmillo boasts, "By this Right Arm what mighty Numbers fell," With Pen in Hand 1 push'd to that Degree, 1 scarce had left a Wretch to give a Fee. Some fell...Laudanum, and some by Steel, And Death in Ambush lay in ev'ry PilL (lV.56-65) he gives in to "Honour" (passion) and changes both his mind and his language:... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Reference - 1989 - 414 pages
...to give away. Edward Dahlberg (1900-1977) American novelist, poet, critic See ECONOMIZING Medicine Some fell by laudanum, and some by steel, And death in ambush lay in every pill. Sir Samuel Garth (1661-1719) English physician, poet Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions,... | |
 | C.C. Gaither - Medical - 2019 - 522 pages
...Thomas If the pills were pleasant, they would not want gilding. Gnomologia Number 2711 Garth, Samuel Some fell by Laudanum, and some by Steel, And Death in Ambush lay in ev'ry Pill. The Dispensary Canto IV, L. 62-63 Herrick, Robert When his potion and his pill His, or... | |
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I scarce had left a wretch to give a fee. Some fell by laudanum, and some by steel, And death in ambush lay in every pill : For save or slay, this privilege we claim, Though credit suffers, the reward's the same. 
