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 History, 1. köideF.C. and J. Rivington, 1808 |
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... regarded as the concerted fabrication of Xerxes and Artabanus , desirous of exciting a confidence in the public mind , by representing the expedition as countenanced by the gods * . If there were any thing preternatural in the dream ...
... regarded as the concerted fabrication of Xerxes and Artabanus , desirous of exciting a confidence in the public mind , by representing the expedition as countenanced by the gods * . If there were any thing preternatural in the dream ...
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... regarded dreams with punctilious veneration ; and much of the reputed wisdom of their sages was shewn in the interpretation of them . The Greeks and the Romans were also considerably influenced by dreams , and often acted in affairs of ...
... regarded dreams with punctilious veneration ; and much of the reputed wisdom of their sages was shewn in the interpretation of them . The Greeks and the Romans were also considerably influenced by dreams , and often acted in affairs of ...
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... regarded them with the most implicit credulity . Plutarch informs us , that in consequence of a dream of Arimnestus ( who was general of the Plat¿ans , when the Grecians were con- federated against the Persians ) , in which Ju- piter ...
... regarded them with the most implicit credulity . Plutarch informs us , that in consequence of a dream of Arimnestus ( who was general of the Plat¿ans , when the Grecians were con- federated against the Persians ) , in which Ju- piter ...
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... regarded as a female figure with black. " Let not thy pinion o'er mine eyes be spread , But a soft influence from thy rod be shed † . ” * Metamor . Lib . ii . 1. 364 . † Statius Sylv . L. v . Consult also Imagin . Deor . P. 121 ...
... regarded as a female figure with black. " Let not thy pinion o'er mine eyes be spread , But a soft influence from thy rod be shed † . ” * Metamor . Lib . ii . 1. 364 . † Statius Sylv . L. v . Consult also Imagin . Deor . P. 121 ...
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... regarded as a female figure with black expanded wings , she was also sculptured as holding in her left hand a white child , and in her right hand a black child with distorted feet , the former being the image of sleep , the latter of ...
... regarded as a female figure with black expanded wings , she was also sculptured as holding in her left hand a white child , and in her right hand a black child with distorted feet , the former being the image of sleep , the latter of ...
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Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.