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" So delightsome these toys are at first, they could spend whole days and nights without sleep, even whole years alone in such contemplations, and fantastical meditations, which are like unto dreams, and they will hardly be drawn from them, or willingly... "
Illustrations of Sterne: With Other Essays and Verses - Page 88
by John Ferriar - 1812
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The Anatomy of Melancholy,: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes ..., Volume 1

Robert Burton - 1804 - 622 pages
...pleasant things sometimes, ъ present, past, or lo come, as Rhasis speaks. So delightsome these toyes are at first, they could spend whole days and nights...even whole years alone in such contemplations, and phantastical meditations, which arc like unto dreams; and they \\ill hardly be drawn from I hem, or...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the ..., Volume 2

George Burnett - 1807 - 970 pages
...conceive and meditate of such pleasant things sometimes, present, past, or to come, as Rhasis speaks. So delightsome these toys are at first, they could...they will hardly be drawn from them, or willingly interrupt. So pleasant their vain conceits are, that they hinder their ordinary tasks and necessary...
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Specimens of English prose-writers, from the earliest times to the ..., Volume 2

George Burnett - 1807 - 528 pages
...conceive and meditate of such pleasant things sometimes, present, past, or to come, as Rbasis speaks. So delightsome these toys are at first, they could...they will hardly be drawn from them, or willingly interrupt. So pleasant their vain conceits are, that they hinder their ordinary tasks and necessary...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ...

George Burnett - 1807 - 528 pages
...conceive and meditate of such pleasant things sometimes, present, past, or to come, as Rhasis speaks. So delightsome these toys are at first, they could...they will hardly be drawn from them, or willingly interrupt. So pleasant their vain conceits are, that they hinder their ordinary tasks and necessary...
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The Literary Journal, Volume 1

1821 - 770 pages
...parts, which they suppose and strongly imagine they represent, or that they see acted and done.—So delightsome these toys are at first, they could spend...even whole years, alone in such contemplations and tustastical meditations, whichjare like unto dreams, and they will hardly be drawn from them, or willingly...
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The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes ...

Robert Burton - 1821 - 612 pages
...pleasant things sometimes, h present, past, or to come, as Rhasis speaks. So delightsome these toyes are at first, they could spend whole days and nights...even whole years alone in such contemplations, and phanta»tical meditations, which are like unto dreams ; and they will hardly be drawn from them, or...
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The anatomy of melancholy, by Democritus iunior, Volume 1

Robert Burton - 1821 - 614 pages
...pleasant things sometimes, *> present ¿ past, or to come, as Rhasis speaks. So delightsome these toyes are at first, they could spend whole days and nights...even whole years alone in such contemplations, and phantaetical meditations, which are like unto dreams ; and they will hardly be drawn from them, or...
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The Spirit of the English Magazines, Volume 9

1821 - 370 pages
...variety of parts, which they suppose and strongly imagine they represent, or that they see acted and done. — So delightsome these toys are at first,...like unto dreams, and they will hardly be drawn from, or willingly interrupted ; so pleasant their vain conceits are, that they hinder their oidinary tasks...
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The Republic of Letters: A Weekly Republication of Standard Literature, Volume 3

1835 - 432 pages
...which they suppose and strongly imagine, they act, or that they sec done. So delightsome these toys at first, they could spend whole days and nights without sleep, even whole years in such contemplations, and fantastical meditations, which arc like so many dreams, and will hardly...
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Essays of Elia

Charles Lamb - 1835 - 440 pages
...they suppose, and strongly imagine, they act, or that they see done. — So delightsome these toys at first, they could spend whole days and nights without sleep, even whole years in such contemplations, and fantastical meditations, which are like so many dreams, and will hardly...
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