MiscellaniesMacmillan and Company, 1871 - 416 ページ |
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æsthetical angles animals apparitions appear associated awake beauty belief belong Black Plague body brain Bristol British Medical Association called cause cerebellum character chimæra Clifton Clifton Hill House colour connection consciousness delusion derived desire diatonic scale disease dreams Dugald Stewart effect ellipse emotions excited existence external fact faculties fancy feeling former ghost habit harmony human ideas images imagination impression individual insanity instance instinctive intellectual interesting kind knowledge labour less library of Alexandria matter medicine mental mind moral morbid motion movements muscles muscular actions nature nerves nervous objects observation occur organ outward Parthenon perceptions person phenomena philosopher pleasure present Prichard principle produced proportions question races reason relation remarkable retina sensation sense sight Sir Henry Holland sleep somnambulism sound species Subtonic Symonds things thought tion uncon variety vision vivid volition waking words
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100 ページ - What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed ? a beast, no more. Sure, he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unused.
114 ページ - That not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure and subtle, but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom...
107 ページ - Whose honours with increase of ages grow, As streams roll down, enlarging as they flow ; Nations unborn your mighty names shall sound, And worlds applaud that must not yet be found...
258 ページ - I know my course. The spirit that I have seen May be the devil : and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, — As he is very potent with such spirits, — Abuses me to damn me: I'll have grounds More relative than this: — the play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.
197 ページ - I knew not whether from the good cause or the bad ; darkness and lights, tempest and human faces, and at last with the sense that all was lost, female forms, and the features that were worth all the world to me...
64 ページ - The One remains, the many change and pass ; Heaven's light for ever shines, Earth's shadows fly ; Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity, Until Death tramples it to fragments.
395 ページ - Where then shall hope and fear their objects find ? Must dull suspense corrupt the stagnant mind ? Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, Roll darkling down the torrent of his fate...
258 ページ - How ill this taper burns ! Ha ! who comes here ? I think it is the weakness of mine eyes That shapes this monstrous apparition.
54 ページ - We behold the face of nature bright with gladness, we often see superabundance of food ; we do not see or we forget, that the birds which are idly singing round us mostly live on insects or seeds, and are thus constantly destroying life ; or we forget how largely these songsters, or their eggs, or their nestlings, are destroyed by birds and beasts of prey...
358 ページ - The path of duty was the way to glory: He, that ever following her commands, On with toil of heart and knees and hands, Thro...