The Literature and Curiosities of Dreams: A Commonplace Book of Speculations Concerning the Mystery of Dreams and Visions, Records of Curious and Well-authenticated Dreams, and Notes on the Various Modes of Interpretation Adopted in Ancient and Modern Times, Volume 2Chapman and Hall, 1865 |
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... less the physician than the meta- physical inquirer to learn all the conditions of this remarkable function of life , and the causes by which they are modified . Remarkable it may fitly be called ; for what more singular than that ...
... less the physician than the meta- physical inquirer to learn all the conditions of this remarkable function of life , and the causes by which they are modified . Remarkable it may fitly be called ; for what more singular than that ...
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... less on the manner in which we are aroused from it . The best proofs , however Thomas Browne ; a writer whose genius and eloquence give him a high place in English literature , as well as in that of the profession to which he belonged ...
... less on the manner in which we are aroused from it . The best proofs , however Thomas Browne ; a writer whose genius and eloquence give him a high place in English literature , as well as in that of the profession to which he belonged ...
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... less refreshing is our sleep ; in other words , the less complete and perfect has been the repose of the brain , the less capable is it of vigorously reassuming the exercise of its various func- tions . This local or general activity of ...
... less refreshing is our sleep ; in other words , the less complete and perfect has been the repose of the brain , the less capable is it of vigorously reassuming the exercise of its various func- tions . This local or general activity of ...
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... less differing from reality in the rapidity with which they come and depart . You are called in the morning , and fall asleep again . Perhaps you have slept only one or two minutes ; but you have had a long dream . The late Lord Holland ...
... less differing from reality in the rapidity with which they come and depart . You are called in the morning , and fall asleep again . Perhaps you have slept only one or two minutes ; but you have had a long dream . The late Lord Holland ...
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... less degree , between the life of the enterprising man , whose progress is crowded with events , and with alternate hopes and fears , and that of another who , with more limited desires , keeps " the even tenor of his way . " ' During ...
... less degree , between the life of the enterprising man , whose progress is crowded with events , and with alternate hopes and fears , and that of another who , with more limited desires , keeps " the even tenor of his way . " ' During ...
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Adrastus afterwards angel answered appeared Artabanus Artemidorus awake awoke beheld body brain brother Cæsar called Chaunteclere child Croesus dead death denotes devil Divine dream dreamer dremes earth effect EMANUEL SWEDENBORG enemies Eudemus eyes father fear fell asleep gentleman Gwithian hand happened hath head hear heard heaven hell holy horror husband imagination immediately impression Joanna Southcott Julius Cæsar king labour lady Lord Lord Brougham mind morning mother murder never NICHOLAS WOTTON night observed occurred Osiris oviparous pain pass Peninsular war Persians person Portlaw priest prisoner recollection remarkable replied rich Robert Fitzhamon seemed seen sense servant shows sick signifies honour sleep soon soul spirit Stockden stood suddenly Swedenborg thee things thou thought tion told vision viviparous voice waking Wallenstein wife woman words Xenophon Xerxes young
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Page 247 - The appearance, instantaneously disclosed, Was of a mighty city — boldly say A wilderness of building, sinking far And self-withdrawn into a wondrous depth, Far sinking into splendor — without end ! Fabric it seemed of diamond and of gold, With alabaster domes, and silver spires, And blazing terrace upon terrace, high Uplifted...
Page 251 - Man is a weed in those regions. The vast empires, also, into which the enormous population of Asia has always been cast, give a further sublimity to the feelings associated with all Oriental names or images. In China...
Page 344 - When he was set down on the judgment seat, his wife sent unto him, saying. Have thou nothing to do with that just man : for I have suffered many things this day in a dream because of him.
Page 253 - And so often did this hideous reptile haunt my dreams, that many times the very same dream was broken up in the very same way: I heard gentle voices speaking to me (I hear...
Page 221 - Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail: And mid these dancing rocks at once and ever It flung up momently the sacred river. Five miles meandering with a mazy motion Through wood and dale the sacred river ran, Then reached the caverns measureless to man, And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean: And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from far Ancestral voices prophesying war!
Page 221 - And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething, As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing, A mighty fountain momently was forced...
Page 219 - In the summer of the year 1797, the Author, then in ill health, had retired to a lonely farm-house between Porlock and Linton, on the Exmoor confines of Somerset and Devonshire. In consequence of a slight indisposition, an anodyne had been prescribed, from the effects of which he fell asleep in his chair at the moment that he was reading the following sentence, or words of the same substance, in "Purchas's Pilgrimage": "Here the Khan Kubla commanded a palace to be built, and a stately garden thereunto.
Page 247 - With battlements that on their restless fronts Bore stars, illumination of all gems ! By earthly nature had the effect been wrought Upon the dark materials of the storm Now pacified ; on them, and on the coves And mountain-steeps and summits, whereunto The vapours had receded, taking there Their station under a cerulean sky.
Page 222 - Could I revive within me Her symphony and song, To such a deep delight 'twould win me That with music loud and long, I would build that dome in air, That sunny dome!
Page 160 - In the atmosphere, so often do the spirits Of great events stride on before the events, And in to-day already walks to-morrow.