 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1831 - 180 pages
...I would never study but in my dreams ; and this time also would I choose for my devotions : but our grosser memories have then so little hold of our abstracted...souls, a confused and broken tale of that that hath passed6. Aristotle, 6 For the most part it is so. In regard of the author's expression of forgetting... | |
 | John J. Harrod - 1832 - 338 pages
...fruitful, I would never study but in my dreams; and this time also would I choose for my devotions; but our grosser memories have then so little hold of our abstracted...they forget the story, and can only relate to our awakened souls a confused and broken tale of that which has passed. 10. "Thus it is observed, that... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1833 - 364 pages
...1 would never study but in my dreams ; and this time also would I choose for my devotions ; but our grosser memories have then so little hold of our abstracted...they forget the story, and can only relate to our awakened souls a confuseil and broken talc of that that has passed." — SIR TuOMAS BROWNE.] XXIX.... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1835 - 592 pages
...I would never study but in my dreams, and this time also would I choose for my devotions : but our grosser memories have then so little hold of our abstracted...our awaked souls a confused and broken tale of that which hath passed. Aristotle, who hath written a singular tract of sleep, hath not methinks thoroughly... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1835 - 358 pages
...1 would never study but in my dreams; and this time nlso would I choose for my devotions ; but our grosser memories have then so little hold of our abstracted...they forget the story, and can only relate to our awakened eouls a confused and broken tale of that that has passed."—SIR TBOHU BEOWNKJ O'erpowering... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1835 - 592 pages
...forget the story, and can only relate to our awaked souls a confused and broken tale of that which hath passed. Aristotle, who hath written a singular...hath not methinks thoroughly defined it ; nor yet Galen, though he seem to have corrected it; for those noctambulos and night-walkers, though in their... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1837 - 504 pages
...I would never study but in my dreams ; and this time also would I choose for my devotions : but our grosser memories have then so little hold of our abstracted...confused and broken tale of that that hath passed." Any one who will read the " Dream Children, a Revery," of Lamb, or that curious and well-antlered tale... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1837 - 478 pages
...time also wcultl I choose for my devotions; but our grosser memories have then so little hold of onr abstracted understandings, that they forget the story,...awaked souls a confused and broken tale of that that has passed. Thus it is observed that men sometimes, upon the hour of their departure, do speak and... | |
 | John Gideon Millingen - 1838 - 456 pages
...I would never study but in my dreams, and this time also would I choose for my devotions ; but our grosser memories have then so little hold of our abstracted...confused and broken tale of that, that hath passed." Dreams have been considered as prescriptive in various diseases. Diodorus Siculus relates that a certain... | |
 | Jules baron Du Potet de Sennevoy - 1838 - 412 pages
...I should never study but in my dreams, and this time also would I choose for my devotions. But our grosser memories have then so little hold of our abstracted...they forget the story, and can only relate to our awakened souls a confused and broken tale of that which hath passed. Aristotle, who hath written a... | |
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Were my memory as faithful as my reason is then fruitful, I would never study but in my dreams ; and this time also would I choose for my devotions ; but our grosser memories have then so little hold of our abstracted understandings that they forget the... 
