The Philosophy of SleepD. Appleton & Company, 1834 - 336 стор. |
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... light . The cattle arise to crop the dewy herbage ; and " man goeth forth to his labour until the even- ing . " At close of day , the reverse of all this ac- tivity and motion is observed . The songs of the woodland choir , one after ...
... light . The cattle arise to crop the dewy herbage ; and " man goeth forth to his labour until the even- ing . " At close of day , the reverse of all this ac- tivity and motion is observed . The songs of the woodland choir , one after ...
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... light . Such is the case with the goose , which is disturbed by the slightest noise , and more useful than any watch - dog for giving warning of danger . It was the cackling of the sacred geese that saved the capitol of Rome from the ...
... light . Such is the case with the goose , which is disturbed by the slightest noise , and more useful than any watch - dog for giving warning of danger . It was the cackling of the sacred geese that saved the capitol of Rome from the ...
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... light being shut out . On opening the eyelids cautiously it is seen to be contracted ; it then quivers with an ... light . This , it is true , happens on coming out of a dark into a light room , or opening our eyes upon the sunshine even ...
... light being shut out . On opening the eyelids cautiously it is seen to be contracted ; it then quivers with an ... light . This , it is true , happens on coming out of a dark into a light room , or opening our eyes upon the sunshine even ...
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... light sleepers ; all bears , turtles , badgers , & c . , are the reverse . In man , the varieties are infinite . Much of this depends upon the age and temperament of the individual , and much upon custom . The profoundness of sleep ...
... light sleepers ; all bears , turtles , badgers , & c . , are the reverse . In man , the varieties are infinite . Much of this depends upon the age and temperament of the individual , and much upon custom . The profoundness of sleep ...
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... light , but this shortly wears away , and we then feel them stronger than when we went to bed . The muscular power , also , for a few seconds , is affected . We totter when we get up ; and if we lay hold of any thing , the hand lacks ...
... light , but this shortly wears away , and we then feel them stronger than when we went to bed . The muscular power , also , for a few seconds , is affected . We totter when we get up ; and if we lay hold of any thing , the hand lacks ...
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activity affection animal apoplexy apparitions appeared arise attack awake awoke become body brain canonical hour cause character circulation circumstances cold colour consequence continued curious death delirium delirium tremens digestion disease disordered dreadful dream excited existence eyes fact faculties fall asleep familiar spirits fancy feeling fever frequently frightful gentleman give rise head hear heat hydrothorax hypochondriac ideas imagination impressions incubus individual induce instance intense Julius Cæsar kind lady latter laudanum less light menorrhagia mental mind morning muscles Mysteries of Udolpho nature never night night-mare object occasion occurred opium organs pain paroxysm perfect sleep period person phantoms phenomena Phrenological present produced reason recollection remain remarkable repose reverie seems seldom sensation senses sensorial power Sir John Sinclair sleep-talking slept slumber sometimes somnambulism somnolency sound spectral illusions stances stimulated stomach supposed takes place terror thing thought tion torpor violent viscus visions waking walk whole
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Сторінка 104 - Though thy slumber may be deep, Yet thy spirit shall not sleep, There are shades which will not vanish, There are thoughts thou canst not banish...
Сторінка 120 - I have seen a dreadful vision since I saw you: I have seen my dear wife pass twice by me through this room, with her hair hanging about her shoulders, and a dead child in her arms : this I have seen since I saw you.
Сторінка 316 - Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages. Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves.
Сторінка 286 - I keep the subject constantly before me, and wait till the first dawnings open slowly by little and little into a full and clear light.
Сторінка 95 - Man is a weed in those regions. The vast empires also, into which the enormous population of Asia has always been cast, give a further sublimity to the feelings associated with all Oriental names or images. In China, over and above what it has in common with the rest of southern...
Сторінка 97 - I was stared at, hooted at, grinned at, chattered at, by monkeys, by paroquets, by cockatoos. I ran into pagodas; and was fixed for centuries at the summit, or in secret rooms; I was the idol; I was the priest; I was worshipped; I was sacrificed.
Сторінка 60 - Buildings, landscapes, etc., were exhibited in proportions so vast as the bodily eye is not fitted to receive. Space swelled, and was amplified to an extent of unutterable infinity. This, however, did not disturb me so much as the vast expansion of time ; I sometimes seemed to have lived for seventy or a hundred years in one night ; nay, sometimes had feelings representative of a millenium passed in that time, or, however, of a duration far beyond the limits of any human experience.
Сторінка 97 - Hitherto the human face had mixed often in my dreams, but not despotically, nor with any special power of tormenting. But now that which I have called the tyranny of the human face began to unfold itself. Perhaps some part of my London 'life might be answerable for this.
Сторінка 65 - In the summer of the year 1797, the Author, then in ill health, had retired to a lonely farm-house between Porlock and Linton, on the Exmoor confines of Somerset and Devonshire. In consequence of a slight indisposition, an anodyne had been prescribed, from the effects of which he fell asleep in his chair at the moment that he was reading the following sentence, or words of the same substance, in "Purchas's Pilgrimage": "Here the Khan Kubla commanded a palace to be built, and a stately garden thereunto....
Сторінка 131 - ... of the vision, he inquired whether he remembered having conducted such a matter for his deceased father. The old gentleman could not at first bring the circumstance to his recollection, but on mention of the Portugal piece of gold, the whole returned upon his memory ; he made an immediate search for the papers, and recovered them, — so that Mr. B d carried to Edinburgh the documents necessary to gain the cause which he was on the verge of losing.