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" Dreams are but interludes which fancy makes; When monarch Reason sleeps, this mimic wakes; Compounds a medley of disjointed things, A court of cobblers, and a mob of kings. "
About in the World: Essays - Page 231
by James Hain Friswell - 1880 - 312 pages
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A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art ..., Volume 15

Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 820 pages
...Dim Sebastian. Dreams are but interludes, which fancy makes, When monarch reason sleeps, this mimick wakes ; Compounds a medley of disjointed things, A court of cobblers, and a mob of kings. Dryden. The mobile are uneasy without a ruler, they are restless with one. L'Estrange. Long experience...
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Melton De Mowbray; or, The banker's son [by W.H. Merle].

William Henry Merle - 1838 - 1034 pages
...MAN, AND FIRE ! FIRE ! " Dreams are but interludes which fancy makes. When monarch Reason sleeps, this mimic wakes, Compounds a medley of disjointed things, A court of cobblers, and a mob of kings. Light fumes are merry, grosser fumes are sad,— Both are the reasonable soul run mad : And many monstrous...
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Chambers's Miscellany of Useful and Entertaining Tracts

William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1845 - 900 pages
...being quoted : — " Dreams are but interludes which fancy makes : When monarch reason sleeps, this mimic wakes ; Compounds a medley of disjointed things, A court of cobblers, and a mob of kings : Light fumes are mem', grosser fumes are sad : Both are the reasonable sonl run mad ; And many monstrous...
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Notes and Queries

1884 - 668 pages
...CHAS. A. РУКЕ. " Dreams are the interlude which fancy makes ; When monarch Reason sleeps, thie mimic wakes, Compounds a medley of disjointed things, A court of cobblers, or a mob of kings." I believe they are Drydeu'e ; but where 1 С. М. I. "The naked Briton here hath...
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An Essay on Physiological Psychology

Robert Dunn - 1858 - 138 pages
...run riot when the controlling influence of the will is withdrawn, and, as in dreams, — " To combine a medley of disjointed things — A court of cobblers, and a mob of kings." At all times, indeed, the imaginative are less amenable to the dominion of volition than are the reasoning...
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The Journal of Psychological Medicine and Mental Pathology, Volume 11

1858 - 754 pages
...run riot when the controlling influence of the will is withdrawn, and, as in dreams,— " To combine a medley of disjointed things— A court of cobblers, and a mob of kings." At all times, indeed, the imaginative are less amenable to the dominion of volition than are the reasoning...
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About in the World: Essays by the Author of "The Gentle Life".

James Hain Friswell - 1864 - 376 pages
...dream. If we have a vision in the night, when our lids are closed, which is " mendax, inane, fallax, vanum, leve " (lying, empty, deceptive, shallow, and...disjointed things, A court of cobblers and a mob of kings." 1'hese images are very incongruous ; for when Reason is asleep, as in the brain of a madman, Fancy...
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About in the world, essays, by the author of 'The gentle life'.

James Hain Friswell - 1864 - 340 pages
...Dryden very well describes :— " Dreams are but interludes which Fancy makes : When Monarch Season sleeps, the Mimic wakes, Compounds a medley of disjointed...present moment, jumble themselves together in dreams. So they do in the brain of a madman. In London, in the present year, a young fellow declared that he was...
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All the Year Round, Volume 10

1864 - 632 pages
...couplets of Dryden : Dreams are the interlndes which fancy makes; When monarch reason sleeps, this mimic wakes, Compounds a medley of disjointed things, A court of cobblers, or a mob of kings. A belief in their prophetic power was universal amongst the ancients, and still...
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The Literature and Curiosities of Dreams: A Commonplace Book of ..., Volume 1

Alexander Henley Grant - 1865 - 416 pages
...has written, — v " Dreams are but interludes which fancy makes : When monarch Reason Bleeps, this mimic wakes ; Compounds a medley of disjointed things, A court of cobblers and a mob of kings. Light fumes are merry, grosser fumes are sad, Both are the reasonable soul run mad ; 4 And many monstrous...
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