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" 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... "
The Theory of Dreams: In which an Inquiry is Made Into the Powers and ... - Page 76
by Robert Gray - 1808
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Reading Genesis in the Long Eighteenth Century: From Milton to Mary Shelley

Ana M. Acosta - Religion - 2006 - 234 pages
...forms Imaginations, Aery shapes ... To imitate her; but misjoining shapes. Wild work produces oft, and most in dreams, 111 matching words and deeds long past or late. Some such resemblances methinks I find Of our last Ev'ning's talk, in this thy dream, But with addition...
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William Wordsworth's The Prelude: A Casebook

Stephen Gill - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 417 pages
...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. (PL, V, 100-13) In book 6, Wordsworth's echoing of the phrase 'ill matching words and deeds' in 'things...
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Understanding 'The Prelude'

W J B Owen - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 349 pages
...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. (V.100-13) It is clear that Wordsworth is adopting Adam's words, and also, and more important, that...
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The North British Review, Volumes 48-49

1868 - 616 pages
...Oft in her absence mimic Fancy wake« To imitate her ; but misjoiuing shapes, Wild work produces oft, and most in dreams ; 111 matching words and deeds long past or late." It has already been mentioned that when a trephined animal is asleep, and appears to ' be disturbed...
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