She converses with numberless beings of her own creation, and is transported into ten thousand scenes of her own raising. She is herself the theatre, the actor, and the beholder. The World and Its Inhabitants - Pągina 183per Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1845 - 328 pąginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| 1803 - 408 pągines
...occasions. She converses with numberless beings of her own creation, and is transported into ten thousand scenes of her own raising. She is herself the theatre, the actor, and the beholder. This puts me in mind of a saying which I am infinitely pleased with, and which Plutarch ascribes to... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pągines
...occasions. She converses with numberless beings of he;r own creation, and is transported into ten thousand scenes of her own raising. She is herself the theatre, the actor, and the beholder. This puts me in mind of a saying which I am infinitely pleased with, and which Plutarch ascribes to... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 342 pągines
...occasions. She converses with numberless beings of her o\vn creation, and is transported into ten thousand scenes of her own raising. She is herself the theatre, the actor, and the beholder. This puts me in mind of a say ing which I am infinitely pleased with, and which Plutarch ascribes to... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 314 pągines
...occasions. She converses with numberless beings of her own creation, and is transported into ten thousand scenes of her own raising. She is herself the theatre, the actor, and the beholder. This puts me in mind of a saying which I am infinitely pleased with, and which Plutarch ascribes to... | |
| Walter Whiter - 1819 - 544 pągines
...converges/' says he, with numberless " beings of her own creation.1and is transport" ed into ten thousand scenes of her own " raising. She is herself the theatre, the " actor and the beholder." This train of ideas reminds him of the snying of Heraclitus, " that all men, whilst they are awake,... | |
| Samuel Hibbert - 1825 - 500 pągines
...adds, " she converses with numberless beings of her own creation, and is transported into ten thousand scenes of her own raising. She is herself the theatre, the actor, and the beholder." The same view has been made the subject of Dr Young's reveries. But Sir Thomas Brown had previously... | |
| Robert Anderson - 1828 - 508 pągines
...compositions of another. She converses with beings of her own creation, and is transported into ten thousand scenes of her own raising. She is herself the theatre, the actor, and the beholder. In these instances not entirely unfettered from the body, but she seems gathered within herself, and recovers... | |
| Henry Duncan - 1836 - 430 pągines
...the soul converses with numberless beings of her own creation, and is transported into ten thousand scenes of her own raising: she is herself the theatre,...intensity of the feeling, or in the duration of the delusion, might be attended with fatal effects. Sometimes a deed of horror is supposed to be done,... | |
| Henry Duncan - 1847 - 430 pągines
...the soul converses with numberless beings of her own creation, and is transported into ten thousand scenes of her own raising ; she is herself the theatre,...intensity of the feeling, or in the duration of the delusion, might be attended with fatal effects. Sometimes, a deed of horror is supposed to be done,... | |
| Henry Duncan (D.D.) - 1847 - 430 pągines
...the soul converses with numberless beings of her own creation, and is transported into ten thousand scenes of her own raising : she is herself the theatre,...time, to have given up the reins to fancy, it seems as » Should the reader wish to prosecute this subject, he may^c referred to the interesting observations... | |
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