| 1877 - 798 sider
...version of his pains : — " At night, whcu 1 lay awake in bed, vast processions moved along continually, in mournful pomp, friezes of never-ending stories that, to my feelings, were as sad and solemn as stories drawn from times before (Edipus or Priam, before Tyre, before Memphis. And concurrently with... | |
| 1821 - 724 sider
...that he had almost as unlimited a command over apparitions, as a Roman centurion over his soldiers.— In the middle of 1817, I think it was, that this faculty...solemn as if they were stories drawn from times before CEdipus or Priam — before Tyre — before Memphis. And, at the same time, a corresponding change... | |
| Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 sider
...' I can tell them to go, and they go ; but sometimes they come when I don't tell them to come, .... At night, when I lay awake in bed, vast processions...solemn as if they were stories drawn from times before Oedipus or Priam, before Tyre, before Memphis, and, at the same time, a corresponding change took place... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1824 - 478 sider
...when awake, of painting, as it were upon the darkness, all sorts of phantoms. * At night,' he says, ' when I lay awake in bed, vast processions passed along in mournful pomp ; friezes of never ending stories, that to my feelings were as sad and solemn, as if they were stories drawn from... | |
| Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1826 - 208 sider
...darkness, became so frequent and effective, as to be positively distressing to him. At night when he lay awake in bed, vast processions passed along in...mournful pomp ; friezes of never-ending stories, that to his feelings were sad and solemn, he informs us, as if they were stories drawn from times before Oedipus... | |
| Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1831 - 544 sider
...according to nature. His mind created all sorts of phantoms, especially in the dark. At night when he lay awake in bed, vast processions passed along in...mournful pomp ; friezes of never-ending stories, that to his feelings were sad and solemn, he informs us, as if they were stories drawn from times before Oedipus... | |
| William Hone - 1832 - 852 sider
...« I can tell them to go, and they go; but sometimes they come when I don't tell them to come.' ... At night, when I lay awake in bed, vast processions...solemn as if they were stories drawn from times before Oedipus or Priam, before Tyre, before Memphis, and, at the same time, a corresponding change took place... | |
| William Hone - 1832 - 874 sider
...' I can tell them to go, and they go; but sometime» they come when I don't tell them to come.' ... storiet, that to my feelings were as sad and solemn as if they were stories drawn from limes before... | |
| John Lauris Blake - 1834 - 1028 sider
...dark ness, became so frequent and effective, as to be positively distressing to him. At night when he lay awake in bed, vast processions passed along in...mournful pomp ; friezes of never-ending stories, that to his feelings were sad and solemn, he informs us, as if they were stories drawn from time? before Oedipus... | |
| William Hone - 1841 - 840 sider
...them to go, and they go; but sometime? they come when I don't tell them to come.' ... At night, when 1 lay awake in bed, vast processions passed along in...solemn as if they were stories drawn from times before Oedipus or Priam, before Tyre, before Memphis, and, at the same time, a corresponding change took place... | |
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