elixir vitae
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The elixir vitae," said he, "is no charmed potion, but merely a concentration of those elements of vitality which nature has scattered through her works.
From Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists by Irving, Washington
Ginotti, whose name is stolen from a brigand in Zofloya, is not the devil but one of his sworn henchmen, who has discovered and tasted the elixir vitae.
From The Tale of Terror A Study of the Gothic Romance by Birkhead, Edith
A few years afterward, in "A Virtuoso's Collection," the elixir vitae is introduced, "in an antique sepulchral urn," but the narrator refuses to quaff it.
From A Study of Hawthorne by Lathrop, George Parsons
Its adherents appear to have imbibed their notions from the Arabians, and claimed the possession of the philosopher's stone, the art of transmuting metals, and the elixir vitae.
From Lives of the Necromancers by Godwin, William
He could not have made it all by the sale of his elixir vitae in Germany; though, no doubt, some portion of it was derived from that source.
From Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 3 by Mackay, Charles
