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Page 56
... dream there are , many of this latter occupation here . Their faces become the place . I like a smuggler . He is the only honest thief . He robs nothing but the revenue , -an abstraction I never greatly cared about . I could go out with ...
... dream there are , many of this latter occupation here . Their faces become the place . I like a smuggler . He is the only honest thief . He robs nothing but the revenue , -an abstraction I never greatly cared about . I could go out with ...
Page 59
... dreams . And truly the whole state of sickness is such ; for what else is it but a magnificent dream for a man to lie a - bed , and draw day - light curtains about him ; and , shutting out the sun , to induce a total oblivion of all the ...
... dreams . And truly the whole state of sickness is such ; for what else is it but a magnificent dream for a man to lie a - bed , and draw day - light curtains about him ; and , shutting out the sun , to induce a total oblivion of all the ...
Page 64
... dream of greatness survives in the still lingering visitations of the medical attendant . But how is he too changed with every thing else ! Can this be he- this man of news - of chat - of anecdote - of every thing but physic - can this ...
... dream of greatness survives in the still lingering visitations of the medical attendant . But how is he too changed with every thing else ! Can this be he- this man of news - of chat - of anecdote - of every thing but physic - can this ...
Page 65
... dream of self - absorption - the puffy state of sickness - in which I confess to have lain so long , insensible to the magazines and monar- chies , of the world alike ; to its laws , and to its literature . The hypochondriac flatus is ...
... dream of self - absorption - the puffy state of sickness - in which I confess to have lain so long , insensible to the magazines and monar- chies , of the world alike ; to its laws , and to its literature . The hypochondriac flatus is ...
Page 66
... exaltation , to which they have no parallel in their own experience , besides the spurious resemblance of it in dreams and fevers , impute a state of dreami- But the true poet ness and fever to the poet Sanity of True Genius.
... exaltation , to which they have no parallel in their own experience , besides the spurious resemblance of it in dreams and fevers , impute a state of dreami- But the true poet ness and fever to the poet Sanity of True Genius.
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