| 1821 - 724 pages
...aud fascinated. And so often did this hideous reptile haunt my dreams, that many times the very same dream was broken up in the very same way : I heard gentle voices speaking to me (I hear every thing when I am sleeping) ; and instantly I awoke : it was broad noon ; and my children were... | |
| 1822 - 962 pages
...sleeping1) ; and instantly I awoke : it wag broad noon ; and my children were standing, hand in hand, ;tt my bed-side ; come to show me their coloured shoes...frocks, or to let me see them dressed for going out. I protest that so awful was the transition from the damned crocodile, and the other unutterable monsters... | |
| England - 1823 - 478 pages
...and fascinated. And so often did this hideous reptile haunt my dreams, that many times the very same dream was broken up in .the very same way : I heard gentle voices speaking to me (I hear every thing when I am sleeping) ; and instantly I awoke : it was broad noon ; and my children were... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1824 - 478 pages
...thousand repetitions. And so often did this hideous reptile haunt my dreams, that many times the very same dream was broken up in the very same way ; I heard gentle voices speaking to me ; and I awoke and it was broad noon ; and my children were standing at my bed side, come to shew me... | |
| Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1841 - 588 pages
...gentle voices speaking to me, (f hear every thin^ when I am sleeping,) and instantly I awoke : it wag broad noon ; and my children were standing, hand in hand, at my bed-side ; come to show me thoir colored shew*, or new frocks, or to let me see them dressed for coing out. I protest thut so... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - Opium abuse - 1847 - 270 pages
...and fascinated. And so often did this hideous reptile haunt my dreams, that many times thevery same dream was broken up in the very same way : I heard...frocks, or to let me see them dressed for going out. I protest that so awful was the transition from the damned crocodile, and the other unutterable monsters... | |
| Half hours - 1847 - 560 pages
...and fascinated. And so often did this hideous reptile haunt my dreams, that many times the very same dream was broken up in the very same way : I heard gentle voices speaking to me, (I hear every thing when I am sleeping ;) and instantly I awoke : it was broad noon ; and my children were... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - Authors, English - 1850 - 324 pages
...dream was broken up in the very same way : I heard gentle voices speaking to me, (I hear every thing when I am sleeping,) and instantly I awoke : it was...hand in hand, at my bedside ; come to show me their colored shoes, or new frocks, or to let me see them dressed for going out. I protest that so awful... | |
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