 I think it was, that this faculty became positively distressing to me: at night, 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...  Thoughts on the Future Civil Policy of America - Page 186by John William Draper - 1865 - 325 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 pages
...they come when I don't tell them to come, .... At night, when I lay awake in bed, vast processions passed along in mournful pomp; friezes of neverending...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 - American fiction - 1824 - 478 pages
...' 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 the times before Oedipus — before Tyre — before Memphis. A corresponding change took place in my... | |
 | Asia - 1822 - 658 pages
...exercises in cases of exalted irritability. " At night, when I lay in bed," he says, " vast processions passed along in mournful pomp ; friezes of never-ending...solemn as if they were stories drawn from times before (Edipus, or Priam — before Tyre — before Memphis." He notices some remarkable facts observed by... | |
 | William Hone - Almanacs, English - 1832 - 852 pages
...they come when I don't tell them to come.' ... At night, when I lay awake in bed, vast processions passed along in mournful pomp; friezes of never-ending...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 pages
...lay awake in bed, vast processions passed along in mournful pomp; friezes of never-ending storiet, that to my feelings were as sad and solemn as if they were stories drawn from limes before Oedipus or Priam, before Tyre, before Memphis, and, at the same time, a corresponding... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1841 - 586 pages
...processions p:issed along in mournful pomp ; friezes of never-ending stories, that to my feelings were as and and solemn as if they were stories drawn from times...before CEdipus or Priam, before Tyre, before Memphis. Ami, at the same time, a corresponding change took place in my dreams , u theatre seemed suddenly opened... | |
 | 1844 - 1128 pages
...affected in a most remarkable manner. " At night," says he, " when I lay awake in bed, vast processions passed along in mournful pomp; friezes of never-ending...solemn as if they were stories drawn from times before (Edipus or Priam, before Tyre, before Memphis. * * * The sense of space, and, in the end, the sense... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - Opium abuse - 1847 - 270 pages
...this faculty became positively distressing to me : at night, when I lay awake in bed, vast processions passed along in mournful pomp ; friezes of never-ending...solemn as if they were stories drawn from times before (Edipus or Priam — before Tyre — before Memphis. And, at the same time, a corresponding change... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - Authors, English - 1850 - 300 pages
...this faculty became positively distressing to me : at night, when I lay awake in bed, vast processions passed along in mournful pomp ; friezes of never-ending...solemn as if they were stories drawn from times before (Edipus or Priam, before Tyre, before Memphis. And, at the same time, a corresponding change took place... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - Authors, English - 1850 - 324 pages
...vast processions passed along in mournful pomp ; friezes of never-ending stories, that to my feelirigs were as sad and solemn as if they were stories drawn from times before QEdipus or Priam, before Tyre, before Memphis. And, at the same time, a corresponding change took place... | |
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