The literature and curiosities of dreams, by Frank Seafield, Volume 2Chapman, 1865 |
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... the birth of Zartusht , or Zoroaster , the great prophet and teacher of the Persians : - ' She dreamed she wondering marked in heaven's clear skies A cloud like to an eagle's pinion rise . 44 A PRECOCIOUS INFANT . So thick a gloom its.
... the birth of Zartusht , or Zoroaster , the great prophet and teacher of the Persians : - ' She dreamed she wondering marked in heaven's clear skies A cloud like to an eagle's pinion rise . 44 A PRECOCIOUS INFANT . So thick a gloom its.
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... heaven- The written word for man's instruction given . These when they see , back quail the demon crew , And , hid in air , are lost to human view . Three shapes alone of all the monster train— A wolf , a lion , and a pard remain . The ...
... heaven- The written word for man's instruction given . These when they see , back quail the demon crew , And , hid in air , are lost to human view . Three shapes alone of all the monster train— A wolf , a lion , and a pard remain . The ...
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... heaven . The bright branch thou sawest which brought thee gladness is the glory of God manifested against the oppressors , which shall keep back from thy child every evil thing . And the writing which the youth held in his hand , with ...
... heaven . The bright branch thou sawest which brought thee gladness is the glory of God manifested against the oppressors , which shall keep back from thy child every evil thing . And the writing which the youth held in his hand , with ...
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... heaven - sent destruction impends over the Greeks , I myself am converted , and change my opinion . Do you then make known to the Persians the intimation sent by the deity , and command them to follow the orders first given by you for ...
... heaven - sent destruction impends over the Greeks , I myself am converted , and change my opinion . Do you then make known to the Persians the intimation sent by the deity , and command them to follow the orders first given by you for ...
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... heaven . Looking at his dream , however , on the other side , he was filled with terror , from an apprehension that the fire , by blazing all around him , might portend that it would be impossible for him to emerge from his diffi ...
... heaven . Looking at his dream , however , on the other side , he was filled with terror , from an apprehension that the fire , by blazing all around him , might portend that it would be impossible for him to emerge from his diffi ...
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Page 348 - 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 225 - In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled round: And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills, Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree; And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.
Page 224 - The author continued for about three hours in a profound sleep, at least of the external senses, during which time he has the most vivid confidence, that he could not have composed less than from two to three hundred lines; if that indeed can be called composition' in which all the images rose up before him as things, with a parallel production of the correspondent expressions, without any sensation or consciousness of effort.
Page 224 - At this moment he was unfortunately called out by a person on business from Porlock, and detained by him above an hour, and on his return to his room, found, to his no small surprise and mortification, that though he still retained some vague and dim recollection of the general purport of the vision, yet, with the exception of some eight or ten scattered lines and images, all the rest had passed away like the images on the surface of a stream into which a stone had been cast, but, alas! without the...
Page 251 - 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 223 - Here the Khan Kubla commanded a palace to be built, and a stately garden thereunto. And thus ten miles of fertile ground were inclosed with a wall.
Page 162 - As the sun. Ere it is risen, sometimes paints its image In the atmosphere, so often do the spirits Of great events stride on before the events, And in to-day already walks to-morrow.
Page 225 - 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 257 - 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 64 - Daniel was shown him, wherein Daniel declared, that one of the Greeks should destroy the empire of the Persians, he supposed that himself was the person intended. And as he was then glad, he dismissed the multitude for the present; but the next day he called them to him, and bade them ask what favours they pleased of him...