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" I feared to exercise this faculty ; for, as Midas turned all things to gold, that yet baffled his hopes and defrauded his human desires, so whatsoever things capable of being visually represented I did but think of in the darkness, immediately shaped... "
Constructive Rhetoric - Page 302
by Edward Everett Hale (Jr.) - 1896 - 352 pages
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 122

1877 - 798 pages
...by a voluntary act upon the darkness, was very apt to transfer itself to my dreams ; and at length I feared to exercise this faculty, for as Midas turned...darkness, immediately shaped themselves into phantoms for the eye ; and by a process no less inevitable, when thus once traced in faint and visionary colours,...
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The London Magazine, Volume 4

1821 - 724 pages
...happened to call up and to trace by a voluntary act upon the darkness was very apt to transfer itself to my dreams ; so that I feared to exercise this faculty...for, as Midas turned all things to gold, that yet baflled liis hopes and defrauded his human desires, so whatsoever things capable of being visually...
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The perennial calendar, and companion to the almanack, revised and ed. [or ...

Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 pages
...for, as Midas turned all things to fold that yet baffled his hopes and defrauded his human esires, so, whatsoever things capable of being visually represented...a process apparently no less inevitable when thus once traced in faint and visionary colours, like writings in sympathetic ink, they were drawn out,...
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The Year Book of Daily Recreation and Information

William Hone - 1832 - 852 pages
...happened to call up and to trace by a voluntary act upon the darkness, was very apt to transfer itself to my dreams; so that I feared to exercise this faculty—...a process apparently no less inevitable when thus once traced in faint and visionary colors, like writings in sympathetic ink, they were drawn out, by...
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The Year Book, of Daily Recreation & Information: Concerning Remarkable Men ...

William Hone - 1832 - 874 pages
...defrauded his luman desires, so, whatsoever things сяpable of being visually represented I did out think of in the darkness, immediately shaped themselves...a process apparently no less inevitable when thus once traced in faint and visionary colors, like writings in sympathetic ink, they were drawn out I...
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The Year Book of Daily Recreation and Information: Concerning Remarkable Men ...

William Hone - 1841 - 840 pages
...happened to call up and to trace by a voluntary act upon the darkness, was very apt to transfer itself to my dreams; so that I feared to exercise this faculty—...defrauded his human desires, so, whatsoever things сяpable of being visually represented I c"id but think of in the darkness, immediately shaped themselves...
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The Phrenological Journal, and Magazine of Moral Science, Volumes 15-16

1842 - 840 pages
...opened and lighted up in my brain which presented mighty spectacles of more than earthly grandeur ; and whatsoever things capable of being visually represented...darkness, immediately shaped themselves into phantoms." Amongst handicrafts in which the operation of Form is appreciable, that of house-painting may be noticed....
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The Phrenological Journal, and Magazine of Moral Science, Volume 16

1843 - 454 pages
...opened and lighted up in my brain which presented mighty spectacles of more than earthly grandeur ; and whatsoever things capable of being visually represented...darkness, immediately shaped themselves into phantoms.'' Amongst handicrafts in which the operation of Form is appreciable, that of house-painting may be noticed....
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Half-hours with the best authors, selected by C. Knight, Volume 2

Half hours - 1847 - 560 pages
...happened to call up and to trace by a voluntary act upon the darkness was very apt to transfer itself to my dreams ; so that I feared to exercise this faculty...a process apparently no less inevitable, when thus once traced in faint and visionary colours, like writings in sympathetic ink, they were drawn out by...
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Confessions of an English Opium-eater

Thomas De Quincey - 1847 - 270 pages
...happened to call np and to trace by a voluntary act upon the darkness was very apt to transfer itself to my dreams ; so that I feared to exercise this faculty...all things to gold, that yet baffled his hopes and I defrauded his human desires, so whatsoever things capable of being visually represented I did but...
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