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" I have seen a dreadful vision since I saw you : I have seen my dear wife pass twice by me through this room, with her hair hanging about her shoulders, and a dead child in her arms : this I have seen since I saw you. "
Walton's Lives of dr. John Donne, sir Henry Wotton, mr. Richard Hooker, mr ... - Page 27
by Izaak Walton - 1884
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John Donne & His Poetry

Frank Walter Payne - 1926 - 184 pages
...was not able to make a present answer ; but, after a long and perplexed pause, did at last say : ' I have seen my dear wife pass twice by me through...child in her arms : this I have seen since I saw you.' " A messenger sent post haste to England returned with the information that a dead child had indeed...
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Prayer: A History

Philip Zaleski, Carol Zaleski - 2006 - 434 pages
...not able to make a present answer; but, after a long and perplexed pause, did at last say, "I have seen a dreadful vision since I saw you: I have seen...child in her arms: this I have seen since I saw you." Investigation confirmed that the apparition had appeared at the hour of the stillbirth. This paranormal...
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John Donne: The Reformed Soul

John Stubbs - 2007 - 604 pages
...as though days, not minutes had passed since Drury left the room, presumably to see out his guests. 'I have seen my dear wife pass twice by me through...about her shoulders, and a dead child in her arms.' Drury tried to snap Donne out of it by taking the rational approach. The ghost had shattered the companionable...
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Ghosts and Spirits

Rebecca Stefoff - 2008 - 100 pages
...Donne terribly upset. "I have seen a dreadful vision," Donne said. "I have seen my dear wife pass twice through this room, with her hair hanging about her shoulders and a dead child in her arms." Donne's friend told him it was only a dream, but Donne was sure it was real. Soon afterward, a messenger...
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Masculinity and Emotion in Early Modern English Literature

Jennifer C. Vaught - 2008 - 264 pages
...Walton, Donne says to his friend, Sir Robert Drury, "1 have seen a dreadful Vision since I saw you: 1 have seen my dear wife pass twice by me through this...hanging about her shoulders and a dead child in her arms."50 Her passing by him "twice" suggests that her mourning gestures are ritualistic or at least...
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The Philosophy of Sleep

Robert Macnish - 1834 - 352 pages
...the question, what had befallen him? — but after a long and perplexed pause, at last said, ' I have seen a dreadful vision since I saw you ; I have seen...I have seen since I saw you.' To which Sir Robert answered, ' Sure, Sir, you have slept since I went out ; and this is the result of some melancholy...
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Temple Bar, Volume 47

George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1876 - 586 pages
...not able to make a present answer; but, after a long and perplexed pause, did at last say, ' I have seen a dreadful vision since I saw you ; I have seen my dear wife pass twice by me in this room, with her hair hanging about her shoulders, and a dead child in her arms ; this I have...
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Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 123

1911 - 1080 pages
...not die. " I have soon," he told a friend who was with him, " my dead wife pass twice by me througli this room, with her hair hanging about her shoulders and a dead child in her arms." We get a glimpse of her spirit in her wish, on the occasion of one of Donne's enforced business visits...
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The history of magic, tr. by W. Howitt. To which is added an ..., Volume 2

Joseph Ennemoser - 1854 - 546 pages
..." Since you left me I have seen a frightful vision, for I have seen my dear wife pass by me in the room, with her hair hanging about her shoulders, and a dead child in her arms." SirEobert replied, " Surety, Sir, you have slept since I left you, and this is the result of some melancholy...
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