| Sir Adolphus William Ward - 1921 - 496 էջ
...the Religio Medici, though he speaks of it only as of a visionary fancy. "In one dream," he says, " I can compose a whole comedy, behold the action, apprehend...jests, and laugh myself awake at the conceits thereof." Rather more to the point is, perhaps, another passage in the same book, in which he half-reluctantly... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1920 - 784 էջ
...is, then fruitful, I would never study, but in my dreams. ... I am no way facetious, nor disposed to the mirth and galliardise of company ; yet in one dream I can compose a whole comedy, behold the actors, apprehend the jests, and laugh myself awake at the deceits thereof.' Truly Number Two is a... | |
| 1843 - 422 էջ
...I was born in the planetary hour of Saturn, and I think I have a piece of that leaden planet within me. I am no way facetious, nor disposed for the mirth and galliardize of company ; yet in one dream I can compose a whole comedy, behold the action, apprehend... | |
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