 I am no way facetious, nor disposed for the mirth and galliardize of /company; yet in one dream I can compose a whole comedy, behold the action, apprehend the jests, and laugh myself awake at the conceits thereof.  Ainsworth's Magazine - Page 399edited by - 1844Full view - About this book
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 318 pages
...leaden planet in me. I am no way facetious, nor disposed for the mirth and galliardize of company; yet in one dream I can compose a whole comedy, behold...never study but in my dreams; and this time also would 1 choose for my devotions; but our grosser memories have then so little hold of our abstracted understandings,... | |
 | Spectator The - 1808 - 348 pages
...company; yet in one dream I can compuse i whole comedy, hehold the action, apprehend the jestt, and lairgu myself awake at the conceits thereof. Were my memory as faithful as my reason ia then fruitful, I would nuver stndy hut in my dreams ; and this time also would I chouse for my devotions;... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1810 - 314 pages
...leaden planet in me. I am no way facetious, nor disposed for the mirth and galliardize of company ; yet in one dream I can compose a whole comedy, behold...memories have then so little hold of our abstracted understandings,-that they forget the story, and can only relate to our awaked souls •A confused and... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - English literature - 1810 - 348 pages
...leaden planet in me ; I am noway facetious, nor disposed for the mirth and galliardize of company ; yet in one dream I can compose a whole comedy, behold...and this time also would I choose for my devotions J but our grosser memories have then so little hold of our abstracted understandings, that they forget... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1810 - 316 pages
...leaden planet in me. I am no way facetious, nor disposed for the mirth and galliardize of company ; yet in one dream I can compose a whole comedy,, behold the action, apprehend the jests, aad laugh myself awake at the conceits thereof. Were my memory as faithful as my reason is then fruitful,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 522 pages
...leaden planet in me. I am no way facetious, nor disposed for the mirth and galliardize of company ; yet in one dream I can compose a whole comedy, behold the action, comprehend the jests, and laugh myself awake at the conceits thereof. Were my memory as faithful as... | |
 | Spectator (London, England : 1711) - 1824 - 298 pages
...leaden planet in me; I am no way facetious, nor disposed for the mirth and galliardize of company; yet in one dream I can compose a whole comedy, behold...in my dreams; and this time also would I choose for iny devotions; but our grosser memories have then so little hold of our abstracted understandings,... | |
 | Samuel Hibbert - Apparitions - 1825 - 500 pages
...had far exceeded this view. His words are these : — " Were my memory as faithful as my reason is fruitful, I would never study but in my dreams ; and...but our grosser memories have then so little hold on our understandings, that they forget the story, and can only relate to our awakened souls a confused... | |
 | Edmund Henry Barker - 1828 - 716 pages
...facetious, nor disposed for the mirth and galliardize ' of company : yet in one dream lean compose awhole comedy, ' behold the action, apprehend the jests,...our grosser memories have then so little hold of our ab' stracted understandings, that they forget the story, and can ' only relate to our awakened souls... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - Christian ethics - 1831 - 180 pages
...leaden planet in me. I am no way facetious, nor disposed for the mirth and galliardize of company ; yet in one dream I can compose a whole comedy, behold the action, and apprehend the jests, and laugh myself awake at the conceits thereof. Were my memory as faithful... | |
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