 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - English literature - 1816 - 414 pages
...monarch Reason sleeps, this phantom wakes, Compounds a medley of disjointed things ; A court of coblurs, and a mob of kings. Light fumes are merry ; grosser...are the reasonable soul run mad : And many monstrous forms in sleep we see, Which never were, nor are, nor e'er can be. Learn to live well, that thou mayst... | |
 | Richard Lobb - Nature study - 1817 - 430 pages
...to mind. The nurse's legends are for truths received, And the man dreams but what the boy believed. Sometimes we but rehearse a former play, "> The night restores our actions done by day , / As hounds in sleep will open for their prey. J In short, the farce of dreams is of a piece, Chimeras... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...Compounds a medley of disjointed tilings, A mob of coblers, and a court of kings : Light fumes arc thy mind o' forms in sleep we sec, That neither were, nor arc, nor e'er can be. Sometimes forgotten tilings long... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 346 pages
...Reason sleeps, this mimic wakes : Compounds a medley of disjointed things, A mob of coblers, and a court of kings : Light fumes are merry, grosser fumes are...are the reasonable soul run mad : And many monstrous forms in sleep we see, That neither were, nor are, nor e'er can be. Sometimes forgotten things long... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 504 pages
...reason' sleeps, this mimic wakes ; Compounds a medley of disjointed things, A mob of coolers, and a court of kings :* Light fumes are merry, grosser fumes are...are the reasonable soul run mad ; And many monstrous forms in sleep we see, That neither were, nor are, nor e'er can be. Sometimes, forgotten things long... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 504 pages
...to mind. The nurse's legends are for truths received, And the man dreams but what the boy believed. Sometimes we but rehearse a former play, The night restores our actions done by day, As hounds in sleep will open for their prey. In short, the farce of dreams is of a piece, Chimeras... | |
 | John Platts - Conduct of life - 1822 - 844 pages
...tine description, — Dreams are but interludes which Fancy makes; When monarch Reason sleeps, their mimic wakes; Compounds a medley of disjointed things,...kings : Light fumes are merry, grosser fumes are sad. And many curious things in sleep we see, That neither were, nor are, nor e'er can be. Sometimes forgotten... | |
 | Giovanni Boccaccio, John Dryden - English poetry - 1822 - 276 pages
...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...are the reasonable soul run mad : And many monstrous forms in sleep we see, That neither were, nor are, nor e'er can be. Sometimes forgotten things long... | |
 | Giovanni Boccaccio, John Dryden - English poetry - 1822 - 286 pages
...to mind : The nurse's legends are for truths received, And the man dreams but what the boy believed. Sometimes we but rehearse a former play, The night restores our actions done by day; As hounds in sleep will open for their prey. In short, the farce of dreams is of a piece, Chimeras... | |
 | George Wentworth - English poetry - 1824 - 378 pages
...years. •• ON DREAMS. Dreams are but interludes which fancy makes ; When monarch Reason sleeps, this mimic wakes, Compounds a medley of disjointed things,...Light fumes are merry, grosser fumes are sad, Both make the reasonable soul run mad ; And many monstrous forms in sleep we see, That neither were, nor... | |
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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... 
