Word: notted
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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After a change to a more unpretending style of raiment, I again entered the dusky room, and thence, together with a fat old gentleman, I passed to the first bath-room. The other-world feeling was at first too much for me, and I sank into a chair and gasped...
I don't think my new companion was a Turk; at least, he spoke English with only a slight brogue. He laid me on a marble slab. I imagined myself a dead and unknown body waiting in the "Morgue" for identification, but was soon reminded that I could still experience...
SHAKESPEARE.POETS have sung the praises of sleep as the restorer of strength to man's wearied frame, probably agreeing with Socrates, that a dreamless night is the pleasantest, and hence neglecting to celebrate the pleasures of sleep as well. These are not to be found in blank oblivion, nor in...
The luxury of feeling our not yet vanished weariness of the day before dissipating with each slightest motion is indescribable, and thought by the ancients worthy of the perpetual enjoyment of the gods. Alas! what infinitely lesser powers now vindicate it as their prerogative, and daily dare to rob us...
Even if it were productive of the best health and the most devotional feeling to have to get up early and hear the prayers of another, or watch them from beyond hearing distance, those who compel us to do such things cannot imagine how great an incentive to resignation it...