Sylvester Sound: The Somnambulist

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W. M. Clark, 1844 - 367 páginas
 

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Página 236 - Saul, as though he had not been anointed with oil. From the blood of the slain, from the fat of the mighty, the bow of Jonathan turned not back, and the sword of Saul returned not empty. Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in death they were not divided : they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.
Página 236 - Ye daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you in scarlet, with other delights, who put on ornaments of gold upon your apparel. How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle ! O Jonathan, thou wast slain in thine high places.
Página vi - ... into the open air. She soon began to talk a great deal during the attacks, regarding things which seemed to be passing before her as a dream ; and she was not at this time sensible of any thing that was said to her.
Página vii - Her language through the whole was fluent and correct, and her illustrations often forcible and even eloquent. She was fond of illustrating her subjects by what she called a fable, and in these her imagery was both appropriate and elegant. " She was by no means," says my informer,
Página x - Portraits,' there is a likeness, by Sir Peter Lely, of Lord Culpepper's brother, so famous as a dreamer. In 1686, he was indicted, at the Old Bailey, for shooting one of the Guards, and his horse to boot. He pleaded somnambulism, and was acquitted on producing nearly fifty witnesses to prove the extraordinary things he did in his sleep. "A very curious circumstance is related of Dr. Franklin, in the memoirs of that eminent philosopher, published by his grandson.
Página viii - She has been known to conjugate correctly Latin verbs which she had probably heard in the school-room of the family ; and she was once heard to speak several sentences very correctly in French, — at the same time stating that she heard them from a foreign gentleman whom she had met accidentally in a shop.
Página xi - A case is related of an English clergyman who used to get up in the night, light his candle, write sermons, correct them with interlineations, and retire to bed again ; being all the time asleep. The Archbishop of Bourdeaux mentions a similar case of a student, who got up to compose a sermon while asleep, wrote it correctly, read it over from one end to the other, or at least appeared to read it. made corrections on it, scratched out lines, and substituted others, put in its. place a word which had...
Página vii - ... endeavours to discover the invisible minstrel. At length, the sound was traced to the sleeping-room of the girl, who was found fast asleep, but uttering from her lips a sound exactly resembling the sweetest tones of a small violin. On further observation, it was found that, after being about two hours in bed, she became restless, and began to mutter to herself. She then uttered sounds precisely resembling the tuning of a violin, and at length, after some prelude, dashed off into elaborate pieces...
Página x - About two o'clock in the morning, the •watchmen on the Revenue Quay were much surprised at descrying a man disporting himself in the water, about a hundred yards from the shore. Intimation having been given to the revenue boat's crew, they pushed off and succeeded in picking him up; but, strange to say, he had no idea whatever of his perilous situation, and it was with the utmost difficulty that they could persuade him he was not still in bed.
Página 56 - And I looked, and behold a pale horse : and his name that sat on him was Death, and hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.

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