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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... writers indeed call him Towerson , and others Towse * . Upon the whole , the author is inclined to consider the dream as the invention of affec- tionate credulity ; as also that of the Countess of Denbigh , the duke's sister , who is ...
... writers indeed call him Towerson , and others Towse * . Upon the whole , the author is inclined to consider the dream as the invention of affec- tionate credulity ; as also that of the Countess of Denbigh , the duke's sister , who is ...
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... writer , " when I say despised , I mean it as for belief , for otherwise the spreading and publishing them is in no sort to be despised , for they have done much mischief . " * Matt . xviii . 1 . They may , as Mr. Dacier observes , be ...
... writer , " when I say despised , I mean it as for belief , for otherwise the spreading and publishing them is in no sort to be despised , for they have done much mischief . " * Matt . xviii . 1 . They may , as Mr. Dacier observes , be ...
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... writers represent sleep to be subser- vient to the sustenance of vegetable life , con- ceiving that the plants which close with the night , and open in the morning , derive benefit from a state of rest analogous to slumber ; and all ...
... writers represent sleep to be subser- vient to the sustenance of vegetable life , con- ceiving that the plants which close with the night , and open in the morning , derive benefit from a state of rest analogous to slumber ; and all ...
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... writer attributes dreams to the immediate temperament of the body . Hi qui laborant siti cum in soporem venerunt , flumina et fontes videre sibi vi- dentur , et bibere , hoc autem patiuntur aviditate intemperata corporis laborantes ...
... writer attributes dreams to the immediate temperament of the body . Hi qui laborant siti cum in soporem venerunt , flumina et fontes videre sibi vi- dentur , et bibere , hoc autem patiuntur aviditate intemperata corporis laborantes ...
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... writer , there is still much truth in his remarks ; and it is certain , that the mind exhibits great and extraordinary powers in sleep , and we may collect very striking proofs of the supe- riority of the human intellect working amidst ...
... writer , there is still much truth in his remarks ; and it is certain , that the mind exhibits great and extraordinary powers in sleep , and we may collect very striking proofs of the supe- riority of the human intellect working amidst ...
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affected ancient animal appears apprehension arts awake body capable CHAPTER Cicero circumstances conceive considered contemplation death Diogenes Laertius disorder Divine dreams Dugald Stewart Duke of Buckingham duke's Epimenides evil excite existence external eyes faculties fancy fear fumes future harassed hath heathens Herodotus historian human mind humours ideas images imagination imparted impressions influence insensible justly limbs Lucretius memory mentioned mind in sleep morning nature never night night mare objects observed opinion Paradise Lost particulars passions persons philosophy pleasure Plutarch presaging prevail probably produce proofs prophetic powers quæ reason recollection reflections regarded Religio Medici remarkable representations represents retired Sarmatian says scenes second sight seems sensations senses shew Sir George Villiers Sir Ralph Sir Thomas Brown slept slumbers sometimes soul speak speak of dreams spirits subsist superstition supposed things Thrasullus Tiberius tion told truth Virgil visions waking thoughts Wanley's Wonders writers
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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...