The Theory of Dreams: In which an Inquiry is Made Into the Powers and Faculties of the Human Mind, as They are Illustrated in the Most Remarkable Dreams Recorded in Sacred and Profane HistoryF.C. and J. Rivington, 1808 |
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... imagination , and affected the credulity of man- kind , have been those which appear to have been connected with impending calamities and death , and which , from the importance of their intention , have been thought to justify the ...
... imagination , and affected the credulity of man- kind , have been those which appear to have been connected with impending calamities and death , and which , from the importance of their intention , have been thought to justify the ...
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... imagination had no limits , and the most wild and extravagant conceits that could be imagined were often received with wonderful credulity . The whole of the Pagan mythology , composed of the contexture of oriental and Grecian fictions ...
... imagination had no limits , and the most wild and extravagant conceits that could be imagined were often received with wonderful credulity . The whole of the Pagan mythology , composed of the contexture of oriental and Grecian fictions ...
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... imagination of Homer conceived , that impending circumstances were to be found in dreams , and that Immured within the silent bower of Sleep , Two portals firm the various phantoms keep , Of iv'ry one ; whence flit to mock the brain ...
... imagination of Homer conceived , that impending circumstances were to be found in dreams , and that Immured within the silent bower of Sleep , Two portals firm the various phantoms keep , Of iv'ry one ; whence flit to mock the brain ...
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... imagination . There are certainly dreams mentioned in Scripture of so ambiguous a character , that it would be a subject of intricate discussion to reduce them to any exact distinction : this indeed is not necessary , the communications ...
... imagination . There are certainly dreams mentioned in Scripture of so ambiguous a character , that it would be a subject of intricate discussion to reduce them to any exact distinction : this indeed is not necessary , the communications ...
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... imagination , betraying the va- nities of self - deception , or the vile contrivance of fraud , and serving but to buoy up his foolish followers with delusive conceits , while they violate the precepts and positive ordinances of ...
... imagination , betraying the va- nities of self - deception , or the vile contrivance of fraud , and serving but to buoy up his foolish followers with delusive conceits , while they violate the precepts and positive ordinances of ...
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accounts Æneid affected afterwards Amphiaraus ancient appears apprehension arts awake beheld bishop body Cæsar ceived CHAPTER character Cicero circumstances conceive considered credulity death deity Dion divine dreams duke emperor engaged Euripides evil excited eyes faculties fancy fate favour fear fictions Fulgosius furnished future events Glaphyra God's heathen Hecuba historian Holinshed Homer human mind idea images imagination imparted impressions influence informs Insomnium inspired dreams instruction intimations Julius Cæsar king Lord Lorenzo de Medici Macrobius mentioned mind in sleep morning mother nations nature Nicholas Wotton night night mare objects observed occasion persons Petrarch Plutarch powers predicted pretensions preternatural probably produced prophetic reflections regarded Religio Medici remarkable reported represented revelation Roman says scenes second sight seems sensations Sir George Villiers Sir Thomas slept slumbers soul spirit superstition supposed temple things tion told truth Vespasian Virgil visions Wanley's Wonders Wotton writers
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Página 30 - 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.
Página 125 - Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and old together: for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.
Página 114 - Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up : it stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes; there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying, Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his Maker...
Página 114 - Behold, he put no trust in his servants ; And his angels he charged with folly : How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, Whose foundation is in the dust, Which are crushed before the moth 1 They are destroyed from morning to evening : They perish for ever without any regarding it.
Página 111 - And the LORD came down in the pillar of the cloud, and stood in the door of the tabernacle, and called Aaron and Miriam: and they both came forth.
Página 113 - In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men, Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face ; the hair of my flesh stood up...
Página 109 - I remember I am not alone; and therefore forget not to contemplate him and his attributes, who is ever with me, especially those two mighty ones, his wisdom and eternity.
Página 76 - Which reason, joining or disjoining, frames All what we affirm or what deny, and call Our knowledge or opinion; then retires Into her private cell. When nature rests Oft in her absence mimic Fancy wakes To imitate her; but misjoining shapes, Wild work produces oft, and most in dreams; 111 matching words and deeds long past or late.
Página 117 - 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 run mad : And many monstrous forms in sleep we see, That neither were, nor are, nor e'er can be.
Página 78 - At my nativity my ascendant was the watery sign of Scorpius; I was born in the planetary hour of Saturn, and I think I have a piece of that leaden planet in me.