A wanderer, here by fortune tost, / My way, my friends, my courser lost, / I ne'er before, believe me, fair, / Have ever drawn your mountain air, / Till on this lake's romantic strand, / I found a fay in fairy land.
The sham operation group had a pacemaker implanted, with no pacing; the HF group was tachypaced at 50 times/min for 37 d to establish the (chronic or congestive) HF model; Vagal stimulation group were implanted with a pacemaker at 250 times/min rapid pacing for 30 d, then the right vagus nerve was stimulated for 7 d (frequency: 20 Hz).
[…] if she can create the sense of beauty in people whose lives have been sordid and ugly...she is worthy of all your adoration, worthy of the adoration of the world.
Minute grew into minute, and still there was no sign of life, nor did the curtain move; but I felt the gaze of the unknown being sinking through and through me, and filling me with a nameless terror, till the perspiration stood in beads upon my brow.