Early Years and Late ReflectionsWhittaker and Company, 1836 - 311 pages |
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... Ghost stories how sometimes to be explained 202 ........... References to Writers on the Subject of Dreams 210 213 Dr. Doddridge's dream What is Time ? Note .......... Coleridge's illustration of the infinite divisibility of matter 214 ...
... Ghost stories how sometimes to be explained 202 ........... References to Writers on the Subject of Dreams 210 213 Dr. Doddridge's dream What is Time ? Note .......... Coleridge's illustration of the infinite divisibility of matter 214 ...
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... ghosts walking up and down with a billet at their backs , having the names inscribed upon them of any friends who may have wished them there ; for " I wish you on the top of the Brocken , " is a woe in use through- out the whole of ...
... ghosts walking up and down with a billet at their backs , having the names inscribed upon them of any friends who may have wished them there ; for " I wish you on the top of the Brocken , " is a woe in use through- out the whole of ...
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... ghost stories might very naturally derive their verisimilitude from dreams . We have only to suppose that the scene , in which the dream occurs , corresponds with the circumstances of it , and there is at once a foundation laid for a ghost ...
... ghost stories might very naturally derive their verisimilitude from dreams . We have only to suppose that the scene , in which the dream occurs , corresponds with the circumstances of it , and there is at once a foundation laid for a ghost ...
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... ghost stories are founded upon dreams of the same kind as that which occurred to you , an ideal representation of events in the local situation in which the person is at the moment , and when the imaginary picture of the place in sleep ...
... ghost stories are founded upon dreams of the same kind as that which occurred to you , an ideal representation of events in the local situation in which the person is at the moment , and when the imaginary picture of the place in sleep ...
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... ghosts . Dreams have nothing in them which is absurd and nonsensical ; and though most of the coincidences may be readily explained by the diseased system of the dreamer , and the great and surprising power of association , yet it is ...
... ghosts . Dreams have nothing in them which is absurd and nonsensical ; and though most of the coincidences may be readily explained by the diseased system of the dreamer , and the great and surprising power of association , yet it is ...
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Page 253 - For I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.
Page 140 - DURING the first year that Mr. Wordsworth and I were neighbours, our conversations turned frequently on the two cardinal points of poetry, the power of exciting the sympathy of the reader by a faithful adherence to the truth of nature, and the power of giving the interest of novelty by the modifying colours of imagination.
Page 62 - It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, And the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers...
Page 62 - Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
Page 80 - But the age of chivalry is gone! that of sophisters, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever! !Never, never more shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom.
Page 140 - In the one the incidents and agents were to be, in part at least, supernatural ; and the excellence aimed at was to consist in the interesting of the affections by the dramatic truth of such emotions as would naturally accompany such situations, supposing them real.
Page 90 - Tis the merry Nightingale That crowds, and hurries, and precipitates With fast thick warble his delicious notes, As he were fearful that an April night Would be too short for him to utter forth His love-chant, and disburthen his full soul Of all its music...
Page 66 - By quick instinctive motion, up I sprung, As thitherward endeavouring, and upright Stood on my feet: about me round I saw Hill, dale, and shady woods, and sunny plains, And liquid lapse of murmuring streams; by these Creatures that lived and moved, and walked or flew; Birds on the branches warbling; ~a.ll things smiled; With fragrance and with joy my heart o'erflowed.
Page 291 - ... feet. But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land? Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thine own power ? why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart ? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God.
Page 98 - What sighs have been wafted after that ship ! what prayers offered up at the deserted fireside of home ! How often has the mistress, the wife, the mother, pored over the daily news, to catch some casual intelligence of this rover of the deep ! How has expectation darkened into anxiety — anxiety into dread — and dread into despair ! Alas ! not one memento shall ever return for love to cherish. All that shall ever be known, is, that she sailed from her port, « and was never heard of more ! »...