The Literature and Curiosities of Dreams: A Commonplace Book of Speculations Concerning the Mystery of Dreams and Visions, Records of Curious and Well-authenticated Dreams, and Notes on the Various Modes of Interpretation Adopted in Ancient and Modern Times, Band 2Chapman and Hall, 1865 |
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... honour as the deliverers of Athens . ' Artabanus , the uncle of Xerxes , was the only coun- sellor of that infatuated monarch , who had at once the wisdom and the faithfulness to dissuade him from that expedition into Greece which ...
... honour as the deliverers of Athens . ' Artabanus , the uncle of Xerxes , was the only coun- sellor of that infatuated monarch , who had at once the wisdom and the faithfulness to dissuade him from that expedition into Greece which ...
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... honour neither gold nor silver , as Theopompus says in his " Marvels ; " and it is reported that Hercules laid this injunction on him in a dream , and that the same night he appeared also to the kings of Sparta , and enjoined them to be ...
... honour neither gold nor silver , as Theopompus says in his " Marvels ; " and it is reported that Hercules laid this injunction on him in a dream , and that the same night he appeared also to the kings of Sparta , and enjoined them to be ...
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... honoured him with this high priesthood ; for I saw this very person in a dream , in this very habit , when I was at Dios , in Macedonia , who , when I was considering with myself how I might obtain the dominion of Asia , exhorted me to ...
... honoured him with this high priesthood ; for I saw this very person in a dream , in this very habit , when I was at Dios , in Macedonia , who , when I was considering with myself how I might obtain the dominion of Asia , exhorted me to ...
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... honour him with the title of king in the provinces , and to grant that he should wear the diadem , both by land and sea , everywhere out of Italy . But if any one go and tell them , now that they - have taken their places , they must go ...
... honour him with the title of king in the provinces , and to grant that he should wear the diadem , both by land and sea , everywhere out of Italy . But if any one go and tell them , now that they - have taken their places , they must go ...
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... honour of the gods , the city was suddenly roused to arms ; and the games being thus interrupted , it was necessary to appoint new ones . Before their commencement , however , just as the people had taken their places in the Circus , a ...
... honour of the gods , the city was suddenly roused to arms ; and the games being thus interrupted , it was necessary to appoint new ones . Before their commencement , however , just as the people had taken their places in the Circus , a ...
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Adrastus afterwards angel appeared Artabanus Artemidorus awake awoke beheld body brother Cæsar called Chaunteclere child circumstances Croesus dead death denotes devil Divine dream dreamer dremes earth effect EMANUEL SWEDENBORG enemies Eudemus eyes father fear feeling fell asleep gentleman Gwithian hand happened hath head hear heard heaven hell holy horror husband imagination immediately impression Joanna Southcott Julius Cæsar king labour lady Lord Lord Brougham mind morning mother murder never NICHOLAS WOTTON night observed occurred Osiris oviparous pain passed Peninsular war Persians person Portlaw priest prisoner recollection remarkable replied rich Robert Fitzhamon seemed seen sense servant shows sick signifies honour sleep soon soul spirit Stockden stood suddenly Swedenborg thee things thou thought tion told took vision viviparous voice waking Wallenstein wife woman words Xenophon Xerxes young
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Seite 226 - At this moment he was unfortunately called out by a person on business from Porlock, and detained by him above an hour, and on his return to his room, found, to his no small surprise and mortification, that though he still retained some vague and dim recollection of the general purport of the vision, yet, with the exception of some eight or ten scattered lines and images, all the rest had passed away like the images on the surface of a stream into which a stone had been cast, but, alas! without the...
Seite 227 - In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled round: And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills, Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree; And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.
Seite 226 - The author continued for about three hours in a profound sleep, at least of the external senses, during which time he has the most vivid confidence, that he could not have composed less than from two to three hundred lines; if that indeed can be called composition' in which all the images rose up before him as things, with a parallel production of the correspondent expressions, without any sensation or consciousness of effort.
Seite 164 - Only the inevitable. As the sun, Ere it is risen, sometimes paints its image In the atmosphere, so often do the spirits Of great events stride on before the events, And in today already walks tomorrow.
Seite 253 - The appearance, instantaneously disclosed, Was of a mighty city — boldly say A wilderness of building, sinking far And self-withdrawn into a wondrous depth, Far sinking into splendor — without end ! Fabric it seemed of diamond and of gold, With alabaster domes, and silver spires, And blazing terrace upon terrace, high Uplifted...
Seite 227 - Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail: And mid these dancing rocks at once and ever It flung up momently the sacred river. Five miles meandering with a mazy motion Through wood and dale the sacred river ran, Then reached the caverns measureless to man, And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean: And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from far Ancestral voices prophesying war!
Seite 259 - And so often did this hideous reptile haunt my dreams, that many times the very same dream was broken up in the very same way: I heard gentle voices speaking to me (I hear...
Seite 66 - Daniel was shown him, wherein Daniel declared, that one of the Greeks should destroy the empire of the Persians, he supposed that himself was the person intended. And as he was then glad, he dismissed the multitude for the present; but the next day he called them to him, and bade them ask what favours they pleased of him...
Seite 256 - I know not whether others share in my feelings on this point; but I have often thought that if I were compelled to forego England, and to live in China, and among Chinese manners and modes of life and scenery, I should go mad.
Seite 276 - ... determination to ride to Edinburgh next day, and make the best bargain he could in the way of compromise. He went to bed with this resolution, and, with all the circumstances of the case floating upon his mind, had a dream to the following purpose. His father, who had been many years dead, appeared to him, he thought, and asked him why he was disturbed in his mind. In dreams men are not surprised at such apparitions. Mr...