| Kenelm Henry Digby - 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... | |
| James Boswell - 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 a rooted sorrow; Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And, with some sweet oblivious antidote, Cleanse the stufTd... | |
| 1835 - 330 pages
...mind diseas'd, 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 bosom of that perilous .stiillj Which weighs upon the heart 7' Can it enable a moral nature to forget, or not to feel, the... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1836 - 570 pages
...she is troubled with thick-coming fancies, That keep her from her rest. Macb. Cure her of that. 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... | |
| Edward Mammatt - 1836 - 370 pages
...the state of his patient's mind, in one of the most pathetic passages of this noble play : " 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... | |
| 1836 - 362 pages
...that he has just made you, a philosopher, and a moralist. Unlike Macbeth's physician, he — " Can 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... | |
| 1837 - 352 pages
...members of the community the objects of desire. — Mill. 798. Diseases of the Mind incurable. — Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased ; Pluck from...stuff'd bosom of that perilous stuff. Which weighs upon the heart ? Shakspeare. '"".',£ 799. Self Love is the spring of all animal action. Nature has... | |
| Marguerite Gardiner (countess of Blessington.) - 1837 - 890 pages
...have exclaimed, when the doctor was recommending restoratives, and gentle opiates, — " Can'st them not minister to a mind diseased ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow ; Raze out 1'ne written troubles of die brain ; And, with some sweet, oblivious antidote, Cleanse the... | |
| 1838 - 938 pages
...elearly. A hollow voice addressed him while groping his way to the object of his visit, — " Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased? — Pluck, from the memory a rooted sorrow, and cleanse the bosom of the perilous stuff that weighs upon the heart?'' " Indigestion — a Kind... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1838 - 484 pages
...life-harming heaviness, And entertain a cheerful disposition. 17 — ii. 2. 659 Mental anguish. 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'... | |
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