The Literature and Curiosities of Dreams: A Commonplace Book of Speculations Concerning the Mystery of Dreams and Visions, Records of Curious and Well-authenticated Dreams, and Notes on the Various Modes of Interpretation Adopted in Ancient and Modern Times, 2 tomasChapman and Hall, 1865 |
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The Literature and Curiosities of Dreams A Commonplace Book of ..., 2 tomas Alexander Henley Grant Visos knygos peržiūra - 1865 |
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Adrastus afterwards angel answered appeared Artabanus Artemidorus awake awoke beheld body brain brother Cæsar called Chaunteclere child Croesus dead death denotes devil Divine dream dreamer dremes earth effect EMANUEL SWEDENBORG enemies Eudemus eyes father fear fell asleep gentleman Gwithian hand happened hath head hear heard heaven hell holy horror husband imagination immediately impression Joanna Southcott Julius Cæsar king labour lady Lord Lord Brougham mind morning mother murder never NICHOLAS WOTTON night observed occurred Osiris oviparous pain pass Peninsular war Persians person Portlaw priest prisoner recollection remarkable replied rich Robert Fitzhamon seemed seen sense servant shows sick signifies honour sleep soon soul spirit Stockden stood suddenly Swedenborg thee things thou thought tion told vision viviparous voice waking Wallenstein wife woman words Xenophon Xerxes young
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247 psl. - The appearance, instantaneously disclosed, Was of a mighty city boldly say A wilderness of building, sinking far And self-withdrawn into a wondrous depth, Far sinking into splendor without end ! Fabric it seemed of diamond and of gold, With alabaster domes, and silver spires, And blazing terrace upon terrace, high Uplifted...
251 psl. - Man is a weed in those regions. The vast empires, also, into which the enormous population of Asia has always been cast, give a further sublimity to the feelings associated with all Oriental names or images. In China...
344 psl. - When he was set down on the judgment seat, his wife sent unto him, saying. Have thou nothing to do with that just man : for I have suffered many things this day in a dream because of him.
253 psl. - And so often did this hideous reptile haunt my dreams, that many times the very same dream was broken up in the very same way: I heard gentle voices speaking to me (I hear...
221 psl. - Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail: And mid these dancing rocks at once and ever It flung up momently the sacred river. Five miles meandering with a mazy motion Through wood and dale the sacred river ran, Then reached the caverns measureless to man, And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean: And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from far Ancestral voices prophesying war!
221 psl. - And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething, As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing, A mighty fountain momently was forced...
219 psl. - In the summer of the year 1797, the Author, then in ill health, had retired to a lonely farm-house between Porlock and Linton, on the Exmoor confines of Somerset and Devonshire. In consequence of a slight indisposition, an anodyne had been prescribed, from the effects of which he fell asleep in his chair at the moment that he was reading the following sentence, or words of the same substance, in "Purchas's Pilgrimage": "Here the Khan Kubla commanded a palace to be built, and a stately garden thereunto.
247 psl. - With battlements that on their restless fronts Bore stars, illumination of all gems ! By earthly nature had the effect been wrought Upon the dark materials of the storm Now pacified ; on them, and on the coves And mountain-steeps and summits, whereunto The vapours had receded, taking there Their station under a cerulean sky.
222 psl. - Could I revive within me Her symphony and song, To such a deep delight 'twould win me That with music loud and long, I would build that dome in air, That sunny dome!
160 psl. - In the atmosphere, so often do the spirits Of great events stride on before the events, And in to-day already walks to-morrow.