 | Eva, Mrs. W. Johnson - 1830 - 310 pages
...there was too much reason to suppose, had entered into a compact with the Evil Onp. CHAPTER II. Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased— Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow— Rase out the written troubles of the brain, And, with some sweet oblivious antidote, Cleanse the foul... | |
 | Johann Georg Zimmermann - Loneliness - 1830 - 416 pages
...management and reformation of their own minds, tHan on the powers of medicine to cure. For — I could not minister to a mind diseased, Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, Raze out the written troubles of the brain, And, with a sweet oblivious antidote, Cleanse the stuff'd... | |
 | Great Britain - 1830 - 456 pages
...diseased ! It might have addressed its officious physicians in the words of Macbeth : " Canst t IIIHI minister to a mind diseased, Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow ?" &c. " Then throw physic to the dogs, I'll none ou't !" My sensitive young friend was affronted at... | |
 | English literature - 1832 - 564 pages
...chair by the side of the table. Upon looking around me, I thought of the words of Macbeth: " Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, Raze out the written troubles of the brain, And, with some sweet oblivious antidote, Cleanse the foul... | |
 | John Robert McDowall - Prostitution - 1832 - 118 pages
...490335 Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the fowler. SOLOMON. ' Minister to a mind diseased ; * Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow ; ' Raze out the written troubles of the brain; * And with some sweet oblivious antidote ' Cleanse... | |
 | James Flamank - 1833 - 436 pages
...being alarmed with the recollection of his crimes, anxiously enquired of his physician, — " Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow ; Rase out the written troubles of the brain ; And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the stuff'd... | |
 | Alexander John Ellis - 1833 - 360 pages
...double superlatives. We have here the comparative degree of a superlative superlative .'.'.' § " Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow ; Haze out the written troubles of the brain, And with some sweet oblivion's antidote, Cleanse the... | |
 | Richard Treffry - Apologetics - 1834 - 222 pages
...the objects which are supposed in any measure capable of affording satisfaction ? — " Canst them not minister to a mind diseased ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow ; Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And, with some sweet oblivious antidote, Cleanse the... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1835 - 590 pages
...a dying man all night." He then emphatically broke out in the words of Shakspeare, " Canst tii. H i not minister to a mind diseased; Pluck from the memory...stufTd bosom of that perilous stuff, Which weighs upon the heart ! " MACB. ACT v. ac. 3. To which Dr. Brocklesby readily answered from the same great... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - Church history - 1835 - 592 pages
...black crown of cares. He turns to every man but to him by whom he could be delivered, and asks, " Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow ; Rase out the written troubles of the brain ; And, with some sweet oblivious antidote, Cleanse the... | |
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Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow ; Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And, with some sweet, oblivious antidote, Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff, Which weighs upon the heart ?... 
