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Page 67
... dreams may give us some idea of the great excel- lency of a human soul , and some intimation of its independency on matter . In the first place , our dreams are great instances of that activity which is natural to the human soul , and ...
... dreams may give us some idea of the great excel- lency of a human soul , and some intimation of its independency on matter . In the first place , our dreams are great instances of that activity which is natural to the human soul , and ...
Page 68
... dreams it is wonderful to observe with what sprightliness and alacrity she exerts herself . The slow of speech make ... dream I can compose a whole comedy , behold the action , apprehend the jests , and laugh myself awake at the ...
... dreams it is wonderful to observe with what sprightliness and alacrity she exerts herself . The slow of speech make ... dream I can compose a whole comedy , behold the action , apprehend the jests , and laugh myself awake at the ...
Page 69
... dreams , and miserable in his waking thoughts , and that his life was equally divi- ded between them , whether would he be more happy or miserable ? Were a man a king in his dreams , and a beggar awake , and dreamed as consequentially ...
... dreams , and miserable in his waking thoughts , and that his life was equally divi- ded between them , whether would he be more happy or miserable ? Were a man a king in his dreams , and a beggar awake , and dreamed as consequentially ...
Page 70
... dreams that she is in such solitude . .Semperque relinqui Sola sibi semper longam incomitata videtur Ire viam ....... VIRG . ..She seems alone To wander in her sleep through ways unknown , Guideless and dark . DRYDEN . But this ...
... dreams that she is in such solitude . .Semperque relinqui Sola sibi semper longam incomitata videtur Ire viam ....... VIRG . ..She seems alone To wander in her sleep through ways unknown , Guideless and dark . DRYDEN . But this ...
Page 117
... my going to sleep , I fell into the following dream . I saw a town of this island , which shall be name- less , invested on every side , and the inhabitants of it so straitened as to cry for quarter . The THE SPECTATOR . 117.
... my going to sleep , I fell into the following dream . I saw a town of this island , which shall be name- less , invested on every side , and the inhabitants of it so straitened as to cry for quarter . The THE SPECTATOR . 117.
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Page 158 - Our first eruption, thither or elsewhere: For this infernal pit shall never hold Celestial spirits in bondage, nor the abyss Long under darkness cover.
Page 307 - tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them ? To die: to sleep; No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil...
Page 306 - Farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is the state of man ; to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him : The third day comes a frost, a killing frost ; And,— when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a ripening, — nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.
Page 308 - To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream; ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause: there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life...
Page 76 - They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters ; These see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep.
Page 78 - My life, if thou preserv'st my life, Thy sacrifice shall be ; And death, if death must be my doom, Shall join my soul to thee.
Page 69 - Thus it is observed, that men sometimes, upon the hour of their departure, do speak and reason above themselves; for then the soul, beginning to be freed from the ligaments of the body, begins to reason like herself, and to discourse in a strain above mortality.
Page 99 - If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it. It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.
Page 261 - When you glorify the Lord, exalt him as much as you can : for even yet will he far exceed. And when you exalt him, put forth all your strength and be not weary; for you can never go far enough.
Page 100 - They are, indeed, so disseminated through all the trading parts of the world, that they are become the instruments by which the most distant nations converse with one another, and by which mankind are knit together in a general correspondence. They are like the pegs and nails in a great building, which, though they are but little valued in themselves, are absolutely necessary to keep the whole frame together.