 | New Church gen. confer - 1853 - 500 pages
...certain modes of dreaming. ' We are somewhat more than ourselves in our sleep,' says Sir Thomas Brown, ' and the slumber of the body seems to be but the waking...conceptions do not match the fancies of our sleeps.' Strange state of being ! For tis still to be ; Senseless to feel, and with seal'd eyes to see. Doubtless... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1822 - 366 pages
...delusion in both, and the one doth but seem to be the emblem or picture of the other ; we are somewhat more than ourselves in our sleeps, and the slumber...waking conceptions, do not match the fancies of our Bleeps." . .,, The idea with which this extract closes, has led the author into some curious speculations... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1822 - 362 pages
...delusion in both, and the one doth but seem to be the emblem or picture of the other ; we are somewhat more than ourselves in our sleeps, and the slumber...sense ; but the liberty of reason, and our waking conc th a . . strain above mortality." He then closes the subject with some truly admirable observations... | |
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1823 - 392 pages
...ingenious author gives an account of himself in his dreaming and his waking thoughts. ' We are somewhat more than ourselves in our sleeps, and the slumber...sleeps. At my nativity my ascendant was the watery »ign of Scorpius; I was born in the planetary hour of Saturn, and I think I have a piece of that leaden... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 924 pages
...ingenious author gives an account of himself in his dreaming and his waking thoughts. ' We are somewhat more than ourselves in our sleeps, and the slumber...our waking conceptions do not match the fancies of dur sleeps. At my nativity my ascendant was the watery sign of Scorpius: I was born in the planetary... | |
 | Fireside scenes - 1825 - 920 pages
...but seem to be the emblem or picture of the other ; we are somewhat more than ourselves in our sleep, and the slumber of the body seems to be but the waking...waking conceptions do not match the fancies of our sleep." I have thought much on that curious faculty of the imagination which it exercises during the... | |
 | Edmund Henry Barker - 1828 - 716 pages
...ingenious author gives an account of himself in his dreaming and waking thoughts : — ' We are somewhat more than ourselves in our sleeps, and ' the slumber...match the fancies of our ' sleeps. At my nativity my ascendent was the watry sign of ' Scorpius ; I was born in the planetary hour of Saturn, and ' I think... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - Christian ethics - 1831 - 180 pages
...delusion in both, and the one doth but seem to be the emblem or picture of the other : we are somewhat more than ourselves in our sleeps, and the slumber...of our sleeps. At my nativity my ascendant was the earthly sign of Scorpius ; I was born in the planetary hour of Saturn, and I think I have a piece of... | |
 | John J. Harrod - Readers - 1832 - 338 pages
...waking thoughts. "We are somewhat more than ourselves in our sleep, and the slumbers of the body seem to be but the waking of the soul. It is the ligation...conceptions do not match the fancies of our sleeps. 8. "At my nativity, my ascendant was the watery sign of Scorpius: I was born in the planetary hour... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - Poets, English - 1835 - 358 pages
...: — . . . " All her innocent thoughts, Like rose-leaves scattertt" — E.] (2) [" We are aomewhat more than ourselves in our sleeps, and the slumber...ascendant was the watery sign of Scorpius ; I was bor n in the planetary hour of Saturn, and I think I have a piece of that leaden planet in me. 1 am... | |
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We are somewhat more than ourselves in our sleeps ; and the slumber of the body seems to be but the waking of the soul. It is the ligation of sense, but the liberty of reason ; and our waking conceptions do not match the fancies of our sleeps. 
