 Sharp misery had worn him to 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 empty boxes, Green earthen pots, bladders, and musty seeds, Remnants...  The Life and Inventions of Thomas Alva Edison - Page 289by William Kennedy-Laurie Dickson, Antonia Dickson - 1894 - 362 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1896 - 486 pages
...simples :d meagre were his looks, Sharp misery had worn him to 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 empty boxes, — » OR Capéis*. h OR dénie. c from... | |
 | Pharmaceutical industry - 1907 - 684 pages
...Culling of simples: meagre were his looks. Sharp misery had worn him to the bones, And in his needy shop M D t WQ ED ( E ?圙 @ { } ^2; 9 y _ |} R ש and about his shelves A beggarly account of empty boxes. Green earth in pots, bladders and musty seeds,... | |
 | English periodicals - 1843 - 408 pages
...tortoise mentioned in connexion with another reptile from tropical climates. " And in his needy shop a tortoise hung, An alligator stuffed, and other skins Of ill-shaped fishes." That these aquatic animals were classed together by our bard under the common appellation of " fishes,"... | |
 | Art - 1917 - 344 pages
...conservator of the curious in nature. A London apothecary is pictured by Shakespeare, within whose Needy shop a tortoise hung, An alligator stuffed, and other skins Of ill-shaped fishes. During the past half century I have lived to see, not only the complete differentiation of the labors... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1925 - 412 pages
...DOCTORS. I do remember an apothecary. Sharp misery had worn him to the bones : And in his needy shop a tortoise hung, An alligator stuffed, and other skins Of ill-shaped fishes ; and about his snelvus A beggarly account of empty boxes. Raima and Julie; Acl v. St. I. SHAKESPI-ARtt... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1967 - 308 pages
...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 stuffed, and other skins Of ill-shaped fishes; and about his shelves A beggarly account of empty boxes, Green earthen pots, bladders, and musty seeds,... | |
 | Michael Earley, Philippa Keil - Performing Arts - 1992 - 164 pages
...simples.13 Meagre14 were his looks, Sharp misery had worn him to the bones; And in his needy1s shop a tortoise hung, An alligator stuffed, and other skins Of ill-shaped fishes; and about his shelves A beggarly account l6 of empty boxes, Green earthen pots, bladders, and musty... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1998 - 290 pages
...of simples. Meagre were his looks. 40 Sharp misery had worn him to 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 empty boxes, Green earthen pots, bladders, and musty... | |
 | Karen L. Edwards - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 284 pages
...seeking at the end of Romeo and Juliet to buy poison from a poor apothecary, recalls that "in his shop a tortoise hung, / An alligator stuffed, and other skins / Of ill-shaped fishes" (vi42-44). (Alligators were not distinguished from crocodiles in the period.) 1o Evelyn, Diary, II,... | |
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