 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 the jests, and laugh myself awake at the conceits thereof. Were my memory as faithful as my reason...  American Quarterly Review - Side 477redigeret af - 1837Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 sider
...compose a whole comedy, behold the action, apprehend the jests, and laugh myself awake at the conceits thereof. Were my memory as faithful as my reason is...study but in my dreams ; and this time also would I chuse for my devotions : but our grosser memories have then so little hold of our abstracted understandings,... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 556 sider
...pose a whole comedy, behold the action, apprehend the jests, and laugh myself awake at the conceits thereof. Were my memory as faithful as my reason is...my devotions ; but our grosser memories have then sq little hold of our abstracted understandings, that they forget the story, and can only relate to... | |
 | Robert Gray - 1808 - 170 sider
...compose a whole comedy, behold the action, apprehend the jests, and laugh myself awake at the conceits thereof: were my memory as faithful as my reason is...study but in my dreams ; and this time also •would I chuse for my devotions : but our grosser memories have then so little hold of our abstracted understandings,... | |
 | Robert Gray - 1808 - 362 sider
...compose a whole comedy, behold the action, apprehend the jests, and laugh myself awake at the conceits thereof: were my memory as faithful as my reason is...study but in my dreams; and this time also would I chuse for my devotions: but our grosser memories have then so little hold of our abstracted understandings,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 318 sider
...compose a whole comedy, behold the action, apprehend the jests, and laugh myself awake at the conceits thereof. Were my memory as faithful as my reason is...never study but in my dreams; and this time also would 1 choose for my devotions; but our grosser memories have then so little hold of our abstracted understandings,... | |
 | Spectator The - 1808 - 348 sider
...would I chouse for my devotions; imt our grusser memories have then so little hold of our ahstracted understandings, that they forget the story, and can only relate to our awakened souls a confused aod hroken taU: of that that has parsed. Thus it is ohserved, that men sometimes,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 314 sider
...compose a whole comedy, behold the action, apprehend the jests, and laugh myself awake at the conceits thereof. Were my memory as faithful as my reason is...memories have then so little hold of our abstracted understandings,-that they forget the story, and can only relate to our awaked souls •A confused and... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - 1810 - 348 sider
...compose a whole comedy, behold the action, apprehend the jests, and laugh myself awake at the conceits thereof. Were my memory as faithful as my reason is...and this time also would I choose for my devotions J but our grosser memories have then so little hold of our abstracted understandings, that they forget... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 316 sider
...compose a whole comedy,, behold the action, apprehend the jests, aad laugh myself awake at the conceits thereof. Were my memory as faithful as my reason is then fruitful, I would never study bnt in my dreams,; and this time also would I choose for my devotions; but our grosser memories have... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 522 sider
...compose a whole comedy, behold the action, comprehend the jests, and laugh myself awake at the conceits thereof. Were my memory as faithful as my reason is...study but in my dreams; and this time also would I chuse for my devotions : but our grosser memories have then so little hold of our abstracted understandings,... | |
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