 | Literary curiosities - 1876 - 334 pages
...to mind. The nurse's legends are for truth 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 In chimeras... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - Authors, English - 1876 - 870 pages
...mimic wakes : Compounds a medley of disjointed things, A mob of cobblers, and a court of kings : l other of their peace and joy. LORD BACON. The greatest of English philosophers, FRA ; * Printed under a portrait of Milton prefixed to PartutUt !..--' . folio. 1688. 1 Perhaps a misprint,... | |
 | Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 pages
...mimic wakes; Compounds a medley of disjointed things, A nub of cobblers, and a court of kings : '-Slit once the brain possess, Then follows straight an indisposedness Throughout forms in sleep we see, That neither were, nor are, nor e'er can be. Sometimes forgotten things long... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1878 - 788 pages
...monarch reason sleeps, this mimic wakes, Compounds a medley of disjointed things, A court of cobblers, and a mob of kings. Light fumes are merry, grosser...fumes are sad : Both are the reasonable soul run mad. DRYDEN. Their reason sleeps, but mimic fancy wakes, Supplies her parts, and wild ideas takes From words... | |
 | Arthur B. Davison - English literature - 1880 - 396 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 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1880 - 842 pages
...wakea : <' J Compounds a medley of dis]ointed things, A mob of cobblers, and a court o€ kings : (1) 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 arc, nor e'er can be. Sometimes forgotten things long... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - Quotations, English - 1881 - 738 pages
...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. Dreams in their development have breath, And tears, and torture, and the touch of joy ; They leave... | |
 | English essays - 1881 - 578 pages
...kings.* Perhaps a misprint for " A court of cobblers and a mob of kings." Light fumes lire merry, grower ulty of profound intuition into human nature, yet with equal candour he forma In Bleep we see, That neither were, nor are, nor e'er can be. Sometimes forgotten things long... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - Quotations, English - 1883 - 782 pages
...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. 1291 Dryden : Cock and the Fox. Line 325. Dreams in their development have breath, And tears, and tortures,... | |
 | Truths - 1885 - 572 pages
...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... | |
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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... 
