The literature and curiosities of dreams, by Frank Seafield, Volume 2Chapman, 1865 |
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... immediately and carefully noted . The results of some of the significative observations may be detailed . 1. His lips and nose were tickled by his coadjutor with a feather . He dreamed that he was subjected to horrible tortures ; that a ...
... immediately and carefully noted . The results of some of the significative observations may be detailed . 1. His lips and nose were tickled by his coadjutor with a feather . He dreamed that he was subjected to horrible tortures ; that a ...
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... immediately conceives that he is in the presence of conflicting armies ; he sees the blood flow , he hears the discharge of musketry and cannon , the clash of arms , the cries of the combatants , and the groans of the wounded and dying ...
... immediately conceives that he is in the presence of conflicting armies ; he sees the blood flow , he hears the discharge of musketry and cannon , the clash of arms , the cries of the combatants , and the groans of the wounded and dying ...
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... immediately ? Not at all . The eye or the ear is affected , but the soul knows nothing of it until the impression reaches the interior extremity of the optic nerve , or of the auditory nerve ; and if any obstacle arrest this impression ...
... immediately ? Not at all . The eye or the ear is affected , but the soul knows nothing of it until the impression reaches the interior extremity of the optic nerve , or of the auditory nerve ; and if any obstacle arrest this impression ...
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... immediately following it , so that probably the whole time during which he had slept did not occupy more than a few seconds . Mr. Babbage had a similar opportunity of measuring the real duration of a dream . While travelling with a ...
... immediately following it , so that probably the whole time during which he had slept did not occupy more than a few seconds . Mr. Babbage had a similar opportunity of measuring the real duration of a dream . While travelling with a ...
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... immediately before we awake from sleep , that we really remember ; and even of these the impression is not in general sufficient for us to retain it for more than a very few minutes . If a dream be remembered longer , it is only because ...
... immediately before we awake from sleep , that we really remember ; and even of these the impression is not in general sufficient for us to retain it for more than a very few minutes . If a dream be remembered longer , it is only because ...
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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...