The Analyst: A Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature, Natural History, and the Fine Arts, Volume 4Edward Mammatt Simpkin and Marshall, 1836 |
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... somnambulism ; a variety in degree of that condition of the sensorium which produces , in its more violent forms , sleep- walking . Dr. Macnish supposes that " sleep - talking consists in a distribution of sensorial power to the organs ...
... somnambulism ; a variety in degree of that condition of the sensorium which produces , in its more violent forms , sleep- walking . Dr. Macnish supposes that " sleep - talking consists in a distribution of sensorial power to the organs ...
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... somnambulist and sleep - talker , disclosing , by fragments , the past scenes of her guilty life . And here the poet , as in the cases of insanity in Lear , Hamlet , and Ophelia , has shewn himself a cor- rect physiologist , and a ...
... somnambulist and sleep - talker , disclosing , by fragments , the past scenes of her guilty life . And here the poet , as in the cases of insanity in Lear , Hamlet , and Ophelia , has shewn himself a cor- rect physiologist , and a ...
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... somnambulism produced by the manipulations of the animal magnetiser . Somnambulism , or sleep - walking , is a peculiar condition of the nervous system consequent upon our dreams , in which the Imagination gains the power of directing ...
... somnambulism produced by the manipulations of the animal magnetiser . Somnambulism , or sleep - walking , is a peculiar condition of the nervous system consequent upon our dreams , in which the Imagination gains the power of directing ...
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... somnambulism to be the result of vivid dreams , occurring in consti- tutions of peculiar nervous irritability , these dreams being depen- dent upon bodily complaint or not . In this case , the ideas of the sleep - walker would be the ...
... somnambulism to be the result of vivid dreams , occurring in consti- tutions of peculiar nervous irritability , these dreams being depen- dent upon bodily complaint or not . In this case , the ideas of the sleep - walker would be the ...
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... Somnambulism appears rather to depend upon the nature of the dream , when there is a strong propensity to it , and ... somnambulists ' actions to be entirely independent of both the perception of their senses , and the imagination of ...
... Somnambulism appears rather to depend upon the nature of the dream , when there is a strong propensity to it , and ... somnambulists ' actions to be entirely independent of both the perception of their senses , and the imagination of ...
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Page 229 - ... Sleep no more ! Macbeth doth 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. What do you mean ? Macb. Still it cried, Sleep no more ! to all the house : Glamis hath murdered sleep; and therefore Cawdor Shall sleep no more ; Macbeth shall sleep no more .
Page 229 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow ; Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And, with some sweet, oblivious antidote, Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff, Which weighs upon the heart ? Doct.
Page 48 - Sleep hath its own world, And a wide realm of wild reality, • And dreams in their developement have breath, And tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy; They leave a weight upon our waking thoughts, They take a weight from off our waking toils, They do divide our being...
Page 48 - And dreams in their development have breath, And tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy; They leave a weight upon our waking thoughts, They take a weight from off our waking toils, They do divide our being; they become A portion of ourselves as of our time, And look like heralds of eternity: They pass like spirits of the past...
Page 228 - 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 53 - All scatter'd in the bottom of the sea. Some lay in dead men's skulls; and, in those holes Where eyes did once inhabit, there were crept (As 'twere in scorn of eyes,) reflecting gems, That woo'd the slimy bottom of the deep, And mock'd the dead bones that lay scatter'd by.
Page 61 - The mere antiquity of Asiatic things, of their institutions, histories, modes of faith, etc., is so impressive, that to me the vast age of the race and name overpowers the sense of youth in the individual.
Page 62 - Under the connecting feeling of tropical heat and vertical sunlights, I brought together all creatures, birds, beasts, reptiles, all trees and plants, usages and appearances, that are found in all tropical regions, and assembled them together in China or Indostan.
Page 52 - A thousand men, that fishes gnaw'd upon; Wedges of gold, great anchors, heaps of pearl, Inestimable stones, unvalued jewels, All scatter'd in the bottom of the sea.
Page 133 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.