...Semmelweis returned from feeding the pigeons that fly below the golden horses of St Mark. As Semmelweis listened to the details of the case, to him as to...was not a malady unique in nature — it was simply a form of pyemia ! Now it became clear why the mortality of the first obstetric clinic was so much...

...Tears, at the thought of those enchantments cold, And Madeline asleep in lap of legends old. Sudden a thought came like a full-blown rose, Flushing his brow, and in his pained heart Made purple riot: then doth he propose A stratagem, that makes the beldame start: "A cruel man and impious thou art:...

...lady's purpose; and he scarce could brook Tears, at the thought of those enchantments cold, Sudden a thought came like a full-blown rose, Flushing his brow, and in his pained heart Made purple riot: then doth he propose A stratagem, that makes the beldame start: "A cruel man and impious thou art:...

...waxing poetic over this feat, we are vaguely reminded of Keats' lines in his Eve of St. Agnes : Sudden a thought came like a full-blown rose, Flushing his brow, and in his pained heart Made purple riot : then doth he propose A stratagem. . . . Sultan, and later Rana, another of the chimpanzees, learned...

...from sunshine and from rain, As though a rose should shut, and be a bud again. (Stanza xxvii) Sudden a thought came like a full-blown rose, Flushing his brow, and in his pained heart Made purple riot: (Stanza xvi) Into her dream he melted, as the rose Blendeth its odour with the violet, — Solution...

...pieties is obvious enough. Porphyro is chosen for the purple-red color implied by the name: Sudden a thought came like a full-blown rose, Flushing his brow, and in his pained heart Made purple riot. It is the thought of appearing to Madeline, and of the likely consummation. The name Madeline, in its...

...terms true to his name, as when he is struck with the "stratagem" (139) for winning Madeline: "Sudden a thought came like a full-blown rose, / Flushing...brow, and in his pained heart / Made purple riot" (136-38). And the "purple industry" impresses itself on the world of the poem elsewhere as well. When...

...his own power to supply. Immediately the pallor of the scene is filled with imagery of color: Sudden a thought came like a full-blown rose. Flushing his brow, and in his pained heart Made purple riot. (136-38) It is, of course, not the formulated "thought" but the wish that underlies it, or rather the...

...his own power to supply. Immediately the pallor of the scene is filled with imagery of color: Sudden a thought came like a full-blown rose, Flushing his brow, and in his pained heart Made purple riot. (136-38) It is, of course, not the formulated "thought" but the wish that underlies it, or rather the...

...Tears, at the thought of those enchantments cold, And Madeline asleep in lap of legends old, Sudden a thought came like a full-blown rose. Flushing his brow, and in his pained heart Made purple riot: then doth he propose A stratagem, that makes the beldame start: "A cruel man and impious thou art:...