 | 1718 - 360 pages
...f»r my Devotions : but our grojjer Memories have then fa IMe hold cf our abjlratted Underflandings, that they forget the Story, and can only relate to our awaked Souls a confufed and broken Tale of that that has faffed. , . Thus it is obfervedi that Men fometimes, ufon... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1802 - 314 pages
...I would never study but in my dreams ; and this time also would I choose for my devotions ; but our grosser memories have then so little hold of our abstracted...awaked souls a confused and broken tale of that that has passed. Thus it is observed, that men sometimes upon the hour of their departure, do speak and... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 408 pages
...I would never study but in my dreams ; and this time also would I choose for my devotions ; but our grosser memories have then so little hold of our abstracted...can. only relate to our awaked souls a confused and bfoken tale of that that has passed Thus it is observed that men sometimes, upon the hour of their... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pages
...I would never study but in my dreams ; and this time also would I chuse for my devotions : but our grosser memories have then so little hold of our abstracted...awaked souls, a confused and broken tale of that that has passed. Thus it is observed that men sometimes, upon the hour of their departure, do speak and... | |
 | George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 548 pages
...I would never study but in my dreams ; and this time also would I choose for my devotions ; but our grosser memories have then so little hold of our abstracted...confused and broken tale of that that hath passed. The Heligio Medici was, on its publication, much talked of in the literary world. It exhibits various... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
...dreams ; and this time also would I choose for my devotions ; but our grosser memories have then sq little hold of our abstracted understandings, that...confused and broken tale of that that hath passed. The Religio Medici was, on its publication, much talked of in the literary world. It exhibits various... | |
 | Robert Gray - Dreams - 1808 - 362 pages
...fruitful, I would never study but in my dreams; and this time also would I chuse for my devotions: but our grosser memories have then so little hold of our abstracted...confused and broken tale of that that hath passed *." Allowing what we please for the elaborate extravagancies of this learned and ingenious writer,... | |
 | Robert Gray - Dreams - 1808 - 170 pages
...would never study but in my dreams ; and this time also •would I chuse for my devotions : but our grosser memories have then so little hold of our abstracted...awaked souls a confused and broken tale of that that ha th passed *." Allowing what we please for the elaborate extravagancies of this learned and ingenious... | |
 | Spectator The - 1808 - 348 pages
...would I chouse for my devotions; imt our grusser memories have then so little hold of our ahstracted understandings, that they forget the story, and can only relate to our awakened souls a confused aod hroken taU: of that that has parsed. Thus it is ohserved, that men sometimes,... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - English literature - 1810 - 314 pages
...I would never study but in my dreams ; and this time also would I choose for my devotions ; but our grosser memories have then so little hold of our abstracted...awaked souls a confused and broken tale of that that has passed. Thus it is observed that men sometimes, upon the hour of their departure, do speak and... | |
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Were my memory as faithful as my reason is then fruitful, I would never study but in my dreams ; and this time also would I choose for my devotions ; but our grosser memories have then so little hold of our abstracted understandings that they forget the... 
