Sleep and Dreams; Two LecturesLongman, Brown, 1857 - 93 ページ |
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active adverted animals associated belong blood blood vessels body brain called cause cerebellum cerebral character connected continues corpora striata death digestion double consciousness dreamer effect emotions endeavour excited exer existence eyelids fact faculties fancy feelings former functions gentle give hand happened healthy human ideas images imagination imperfect impressions individual induced instance interesting Jeremy Taylor JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS JOHN SHEPPARD kind lecture light limbs living Livy matter medulla oblongata mind moral muscles muscular mysterious Narcotics nature nerves nervous centres nervous system night objects observe occur opium organs perceptions phenomena Philosophy present pressure produced reason sleeps recur relation remark remember repose respiration rest retina revived scenes senses sensory ganglia sentiments SLEEP AND DREAMS Sleep-talking sleeper slumber sometimes somnambulism somnambulist somnolency sound speak spinal cord strange suggest things tion vessels visions vital actions vivid volition waking hours weary
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84 ページ - Revived, with finer harmony pursued; 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...
6 ページ - The stag-hounds, weary with the chase, Lay stretched upon the rushy floor, And urged, in dreams, the forest race, From Teviot stone to Eskdale moor.
52 ページ - I mean to say that the words king, sultan, regent, &c., 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.
52 ページ - Romanus : and immediately came " sweeping by," in gorgeous paludaments, Paulus or Marius, girt round by a company of centurions, with the crimson tunic hoisted on a spear, and followed by the alalagmos of the Roman legions. Many years ago, when I was looking over Piranesi's Antiquities of Rome, Mr. Coleridge, who was standing by, described to me a set of plates by that artist, called his Dreams, and which record the scenery of his own visions during the delirium of a fever : Some of them...
65 ページ - 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.
48 ページ - 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.
34 ページ - 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.
16 ページ - During the attack her eyelids were generally half-shut ; her eyes sometimes resembled those of a person affected with amaurosis, that is, with a dilated and insensible state of the -pupil, but sometimes they were quite natural. She had a dull vacant look ; but, when excited, knew what was said to her, though she often mistook the person who was speaking; and it was observed, that she seemed to discern objects best which were faintly illuminated.
76 ページ - I dreamed that I had found Captain David Steele, a notorious rebel, in one of the five farmers...
34 ページ - Not poppy, nor mandragora, Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world, Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep Which thou ow'dst yesterday.