Sleep and Dreams; Two Lectures |
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active animals associated awake blood blood vessels body brain called cause cere cerebellum character circumstances connected consciousness continue Covenanters degree digestion double consciousness dreamer dreams effect emotions excited eyelids eyes fact faculties fancy feelings former functions gentle give happened healthy hemispherical ganglia human ideas images imagination imperfect impressions individual induced influence instance interesting JEREMY TAYLOR JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS kind light limbs living Livy matter medulla oblongata memory mental mind motion muscles mysterious natural nerves nervous system night notice objects observation occur opium organs passive perceptions person phenomena portion pressure produced reason sleeps recur relation remark remember repose respiration rest retina revived scenes sense sensory ganglia sentiments Sir WALTER SCOTT sleep Sleep-talking sleeper slumber sometimes somnambulism somnambulist somnolency sound spinal cord strange suggest suspended things torpor vessels visions vital action vivid waking hours waking thought weary
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Seite 40 - Not poppy, nor mandragora, Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world, Shall ever med'cine thee to that sweet sleep Which thou ow'dst yesterday.
Seite 88 - The birds their quire apply ; airs, vernal airs, Breathing the smell of field and grove, attune The trembling leaves, while universal Pan, Knit with the Graces and the Hours in dance, Led on the eternal Spring.
Seite 89 - Of all that is most beauteous — imaged there In happier beauty; more pellucid streams, An ampler ether, a diviner air, And fields invested with purpureal gleams; Climes which the sun, who sheds the brightest day Earth knows, is all unworthy to survey. Yet there the Soul shall enter which hath earned That privilege by virtue. — '111...
Seite 63 - The sense of space and in the end the sense of time were both powerfully affected. Buildings, landscapes, etc., were exhibited in proportions so vast as the bodily eye is not fitted to receive. Space swelled, and was amplified to an extent of unutterable infinity.
Seite 59 - Sleep hath its own world, A boundary between the things misnamed Death and existence: Sleep hath its own world, And a wide realm of wild reality. And dreams in their development have breath, And tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy; They leave a weight upon our waking thoughts, They take a weight from off our waking toils, They do divide our being...
Seite 71 - The waters now changed their character, — from translucent lakes, shining like mirrors, they now became seas and oceans. And now came a tremendous change, which, unfolding itself slowly liKe a scroll, through many months, promised an abiding torment ; and, in fact, it never left me until the winding up of my case.
Seite 57 - I mean to say that the words king, sultan, regent, etc., or any other titles of those who embody in their own persons the collective majesty of a great people, had less power over my reverential feelings.
Seite 40 - COURAGE!' he said, and pointed toward the land, 'This mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon.' In the afternoon they came unto a land In which it seemed always afternoon. All round the coast the languid air did swoon, Breathing like one that hath a weary dream. Full-faced above the valley stood the moon ; And like a downward smoke, the slender stream Along the cliff to fall and pause and fall did seem. A land of streams! some, like a downward smoke, Slow-dropping veils of thinnest lawn, did go;...
Seite 53 - Shall it survey, shall it recall: Each fainter trace that memory holds So darkly of departed years, In one broad glance the soul beholds, And all that was, at once appears.
Seite 70 - ... bringest an assuaging balm — eloquent opium! that with thy potent rhetoric stealest away •the purposes of wrath...