The Theory of Dreams: In which an Inquiry is Made Into the Powers and Faculties of the Human Mind, as They are Illustrated in the Most Remarkable Dreams Recorded in Sacred and Profane History, Volume 2F. C. and J. Rivington, 1808 - Dreams |
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Page 35
... morning requires time to disperse the clouds of solicitude . Sleep , however , though it some- times admits images to harass the mind , yet * Claud . in Rufin . L. ii . - in general serves to renew an impaired strength , and c 6 35.
... morning requires time to disperse the clouds of solicitude . Sleep , however , though it some- times admits images to harass the mind , yet * Claud . in Rufin . L. ii . - in general serves to renew an impaired strength , and c 6 35.
Page 50
... , are not to be considered as useless : they may serve to exercise the faculties and improve the temper of the mind , which * Mysterious Mother . † Dan . ii . 5 . may derive profit from the contemplation of successive images , 50.
... , are not to be considered as useless : they may serve to exercise the faculties and improve the temper of the mind , which * Mysterious Mother . † Dan . ii . 5 . may derive profit from the contemplation of successive images , 50.
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... images , but could receive no ad- vantage from apathy . Incoherent as they are , they enable us on reconsideration to watch the temper of the mind , to regard its predominant affections , and to note its undisguised propensities ; and ...
... images , but could receive no ad- vantage from apathy . Incoherent as they are , they enable us on reconsideration to watch the temper of the mind , to regard its predominant affections , and to note its undisguised propensities ; and ...
Page 52
... images which terminate in no pleasure , but promote disorder . It is observable , however , that * Plutarch . Dionys . Plut . vol . i . p . 398. Edit . Wyttenbach . when the passions operate to excess in dreams , the 52.
... images which terminate in no pleasure , but promote disorder . It is observable , however , that * Plutarch . Dionys . Plut . vol . i . p . 398. Edit . Wyttenbach . when the passions operate to excess in dreams , the 52.
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... images which it has contemplated ; and if sleep is extended to any unusual length of time , no accurate idea of the time elapsed is preserved , as a person who had slept for a week is known to have fancied that he had slept only one ...
... images which it has contemplated ; and if sleep is extended to any unusual length of time , no accurate idea of the time elapsed is preserved , as a person who had slept for a week is known to have fancied that he had slept only one ...
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Page 39 - Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast Seal up the ship-boy's eyes, and rock his brains In cradle of the rude imperious surge ; And in the visitation of the winds. Who take the ruffian billows by the top, Curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them With deaf'ning clamours in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly * death itself awakes...
Page 30 - Methought I heard a voice cry, Sleep no more ! Macbeth does murder sleep, the innocent sleep ; Sleep, that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care, The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast ;— Lady M.
Page 76 - WHEN Learning's triumph o'er her barbarous foes First rear'd the stage, immortal Shakespeare rose; Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagin'd new: Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign, And panting Time toil'd after him in vain.
Page 109 - I remember I am not alone, and therefore forget not to contemplate Him and His attributes who is ever with me, especially those two mighty ones. His wisdom and eternity.
Page 76 - Which reason, joining or disjoining, frames All what we affirm or what deny, and call Our knowledge or opinion; then retires Into her private cell. When nature rests Oft in her absence mimic Fancy wakes To imitate her; but misjoining shapes, Wild work produces oft, and most in dreams; 111 matching words and deeds long past or late.
Page 78 - At my nativity my ascendant was the watery sign of Scorpius; I was born in the planetary hour of Saturn, and I think I have a piece of that leaden planet in me.
Page 117 - Dreams are but interludes, which fancy makes ; When monarch Reason sleeps, this mimic wakes: Compounds a medley of disjointed things, A mob of cobblers, and a court of kings: Light fumes are merry, grosser fumes are sad : Both are the reasonable soul run mad : And many monstrous forms in sleep we see, That neither were, nor are, nor e'er can be.
Page 95 - ... and extensive for our comprehension ; and that there can be no security in the consequence, when the premises are not understood ; that the Second Sight is only wonderful because it is rare, for, considered in itself, it involves no more difficulty than dreams, or perhaps than the regular exercise of the cogitative faculty...
Page 36 - When I say, My bed shall comfort me, My couch shall ease my complaint; Then thou scarest me with dreams, And terrifiest me through visions : So that my soul chooseth strangling, And death rather than my life.
Page 145 - That not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure and subtle, but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom...