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...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...things, with a parallel production of the correspondent expression, without any sensation or consciousness of effort. On awaking, he appeared to nimself to...

...lines of poetry — " if that indeed," says be, ' can be called composition, in which all the nuages rose up before him as things, with a parallel production...sensation, or consciousness of effort." — On awaking he began to write down these effusions ; but being called off, and detained above an hour, he found to...

...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...distinct recollection of the whole, and taking his pen ink, and paper, instantly and eagerly wrote down the lines that are here preserved. At this moment...

...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...composition in which all the images rose up before him as tliingi, with a parallel production of the correspondent expressions, without any sensation or consciousness...

...of this composition had almost always happened to him in the production of his poems, viz., that " the images rose up before him as things, with a parallel production of the correspondent expressions." We cannot but believe that usually his " visions flit very palpably before him," from the effect of...

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...about three hours in a profound sleep, at least of the external senses, during which time he had the most vivid confidence, that he could not have composed...distinct recollection of the whole : and taking his pen, ink, and paper instantly and eagerly wrote down the lines that are here preserved. At this moment...

...about three hours in a profound sleep, at least of the external senses, during which time he had the most vivid confidence, that he could not have composed...distinct recollection of the whole: and, taking his pen, ink, and paper, instantly and eagerly wrote down the lines that are here preserved. At this moment...

...senses, during which time he luw the most vivid confidence, that he could not have compound less tlmn from two to three hundred lines ; if that indeed can be called composition in which all the images roso up before him as things, with a parallel production of the correspondent expressions, without...