 I do remember an apothecary, And hereabouts he dwells, which late I noted In tattered weeds, with overwhelming brows, Culling of simples ; meagre were his looks, Sharp misery had worn him to the bones; And in his needy shop a tortoise hung, An alligator...  The Rising Sun,: A Serio-comic Satiric Romance - Page 54by Eaton Stannard Barrett - 1807Full view - About this book
 | James Fenimore Cooper - American literature - 1855 - 622 pages
...upset the lad gave us ?" The reply was interrupted by the entrance of the village physician. CHAPTER -And about his shelves, A beggarly account of empty boxes, Green earthen potf, bladders, and musty Remnants of pack-tliread, and old cakes of roMfl, Wore thinly scattered to... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1856 - 380 pages
...Sharp misery had worn him to the bones : And in his needy shop a tortoise hung, An alligator stutVd, and other skins Of ill-shap'd fishes ; and about his...empty boxes, Green earthen pots, bladders, and musty seed.', Remuants of packthread, and old cakes of roses, Were thinly scatter'd to make up a show. Noting... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Richard Grant White - Andronicus, Titus (Legendary character) - 1861 - 548 pages
...Sharp misery had worn him to the bones : And in his needy shop a tortoise hung, An alligator stuff'd, and other skins Of ill-shap'd fishes ; and about his...seeds, Remnants of packthread, and old cakes of roses, Noting this penury, to myself I said — An if a man did need a poison now, Whose sale is present death... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1857 - 630 pages
...bones : And in his needy shop a tortoise hung, An alligator stuffed, and other skins Of ill-shaped fishes ; and about his shelves A beggarly account...of packthread, and old cakes of roses, Were thinly scattered to make up a show. Noting this penury, to myself I said, " And if a man did need a poison... | |
 | John Seely Hart - Readers - 1857 - 394 pages
...bones : And in his needy shop a tortoise hung, An alligator stuffed, and other skins Of ill-shaped fishes; and about his shelves A beggarly account of...of packthread, and old cakes of roses, Were thinly scattered, to make up a show. Noting this penury, to myself I said — An if a man did need a poison... | |
 | Andrew Steinmetz - Tobacco - 1857 - 206 pages
...its beautiful simplicity — its wonderful generosity in making so " han'some " a return for — " shelves, A beggarly account of empty boxes, Green earthen pots, bladders, and musty seeds, Kemnants of packthread, and old cakes of roses ! " The use of tobacco for snuff is referred to the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1858 - 830 pages
...overwhelming brows, Culling of simples : meagre were his looks, Sharp misery had worn him to the hones ; l'1 in my necessity. ANT. Why, fear not, man, I will not scattcr'd, to make up a show. Noting this penury, to myself I said — An if a man did need a poison... | |
 | Oliver Oldham - Humorous recitations - 1858 - 422 pages
...the bones : And in his needy shop a tortoise hung, An alligator stufPd, and other skins Of ill-shaped fishes ; and about his shelves A beggarly account of empty boxes, Green earthen pots, bladders, musty seeds, Eemnants of packthread, and old cakes of roses, Were thinly scatter'd to make up a show.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Registers of births, etc - 1858 - 832 pages
...Sharp misery had worn him to the bones ; And in his needy shop a tortoise hung, An alligator stuff 'd,a and other skins Of ill-shap'd fishes ; and, about his shelves, A beggarly account of empty hoses, Green earthen pots, bladders, and musty seeds, Remnants of packthread, and old cakes of roses,... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - Law in literature - 1859 - 164 pages
...the bones: And in his needy shop a tortoise hung, An alligator stuffed, and other skins Of ill-shaped fishes; and about his shelves A beggarly account of...of packthread and old cakes of roses, Were thinly scattered to make up a show." (Act T. Sc. 1.) Any observing customer, who had once entered the shop... | |
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