 They consider that this fluid, sparingly used, is a great sustainer of life; but used in excess, when in the normal state of health, rather tends to reaction and exhausted vitality. For nearly all their diseases, however, they resort to it as the chief...  Novels - Page 315by Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1897Full view - About this book
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1872 - 296 pages
...essential to health, they habitually use the sweating-baths to which we give the name of Turkish or Eoman, succeeded by douches of perfumed waters. They have...too accustomed to these gentle sounds to find them a hind* I once tried the effect of the vril bath. It was very similar in its invigorating powers to that... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1875 - 116 pages
...fluid, sparingly used, is a great sustainer of life ; but used in excess, when in the normal stale of health, rather tends to reaction and exhausted...to find them a hindrance to conversation, nor, when * I once tried the effect of the vril bath. It was vet у similar in its invigorating powers to that... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1882 - 318 pages
...their luxuries are innocent. They may be said to dwell in an atmosphere of music and fragrance, livery room has its mechanical contrivances for melodious...reflection. But they have a notion that to breathe an air tilled with continuous melody and perfume has necessarily an effect at once soothing and elevating... | |
 | 1890 - 978 pages
...day. A particular point to be noticed is that Every room has its mechanical contrivances for metodious sounds, usually tuned down to soft-murmured notes,...which seem like sweet whispers from invisible spirits. Bulwer's novel on social reform is a mere sketch, very inferior to More's " Utopia ; " the latter is... | |
 | Edward Bulwer-Lytton - 1967 - 154 pages
...stated but rare periods, perhaps four times a-year when in health, to use a bath charged with vril. 1 They consider that this fluid, sparingly used, is...soft-murmured notes, which seem like sweet whispers 1 I once tried the effect of the vril bath. It was very similar in its invigorating powers to that... | |
 | Chris Knowles - 2007 - 259 pages
..."complexions warmer or richer in tone than persons in the north of Europe." Like New Agers, they: . . . dwell in an atmosphere of music and fragrance. Every...contrivances for melodious sounds, usually tuned down to sojt-murmured notes, which seem like sweet whispers from invisible spirits... they have a notion that... | |
 | Jan Veldkamp - 1923 - 132 pages
...politically that nobody has much to do but indulge in aerial sports upon their ' Vril '-directed wings. In their own way they are the most luxurious of people,...which seem like sweet whispers from invisible spirits. . .in all their sports even the old exhibit a childlike gaiety. Happiness is the end at which they... | |
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