Studies in Life and SenseChatto & Windus, 1898 - 354 pages |
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Page 215 - And let my liver rather heat with wine Than my heart cool with mortifying groans. Why should a man, whose blood is warm within, Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster?
Page 77 - So geographers, in Afric maps, With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns.
Page 271 - Soil of Breath on the bright Mirror he held to his Mouth ; then each of us by Turns examined his Arm, Heart, and Breath, but could not by the nicest Serutiny discover the least Symptom of Life in him.
Page 271 - We heard this with surprise, but as it was not to be accounted for from now common principles, we could hardly believe the fact as he related it, much less give any account of it, unless he should please to make the experiment before us, which we were unwilling he should do, lest in his weak condition he might carry it too far.
Page 256 - French in 1805, to .the great regret of the inhabitants, a painter of that .city undertook to make a copy of it from recollection ; and succeeded in doing so in such a manner, that the most delicate tints of the original are preserved with the most minute accuracy. The original painting has now been restored, but the copy is preserved along with it ; and even when they are rigidly compared, it is scarcely possible to distinguish the one from the other.
Page 347 - Under whatever disguise it takes refuge, whether fungus or oak, worm or man, the living protoplasm not only ultimately dies and is resolved into its mineral and lifeless constituents, but is always dying, and, strange as the paradox may sound, could not live unless it died.
Page 271 - We all three felt his pulse first : it was distinct, though small and thready, and his heart had its usual beating.
Page 272 - As we were going away, we observed some motion about the body, and upon examination, found his pulse and the motion of his heart gradually returning: he began to breathe gently and speak softly; we were all astonished to the last degree at this unexpected change, and after some further conversation with him and among ourselves, went away fully satisfied as to all the particulars of this fact, but confounded and puzzled, and not able to form any rational scheme that might account for it.
Page 106 - Thy arts of building from the bee receive; Learn of the mole to plough, the worm to weave; Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
Page 347 - All work implies waste, and the work of life results, directly or indirectly, in the waste of protoplasm.