As gentle dreams our waking thoughts pursue; Or, one dream past, we slide into a new; So close they follow and such wild order keep, We think ourselves awake and are asleep; So softly death succeeded life in her: She did but dream of heaven and she was there.

Besides the réveries of the day, already spoken of, we have, in a moral view, our waking-dreams, which are not less chimerical, and impossible to be realized, than the imaginations of the night.

I find it difficult to define the difference between a waking vision and a mental image, although the difference is very apparent to myself.

It was in no normal state of ordinary waking senses that the work went onwith never a downward look, nor even up, eyes riveted to the patch of snow on which the mittened hands fell as steady and untrembling as steel hammers.

Among the names of the Arum may be noticed "parson in the pulpit," "cows and calves," "lords and ladies," and "wake-robin."

Yet at that the sharp-nosed craft was making the best of it, leaving a long wake astern, the waves cresting within a few feet of her rail as she swept gloriously forward.

When Mr. Tylor wrote his book, the study of the occasional waking hallucinations of the sane and healthy was in its infancy.

In the early stage of my malady the splendours of my dreams were indeed chiefly architectural; and I beheld such pomp of cities and palaces as was never yet beheld by the waking eye, unless in the clouds.

We shall, however, give the reader a single verse of a song which Swiss feeling has rendered so celebrated, and which is said often to induce the mountaineer in foreign service to desert the mercenary standard and the tame scenes of towns; to return to the magnificent nature that haunts his waking imagination and embellishes his dreams.

If only they both come to realise it in their normal waking states his Double will cease these nocturnal excursions.

every possible plan adopted to occupy every waking hour, and to prevent the men from brooding over their position.

To the savage, I doubt not, the food he eats, the foes he grapples with, in dreams, are as real as any waking impressions.

In the first place he must dine with the colleagues with whom his whole waking life is passedexcellent fellows and capital companybut nature demands an occasional enlargement of the mental horizon.

Long ago, almost the moment he arrived, he had set his wheel in order, and got his waking-machine into working trim.

So with us, when, in our waking misery, we try to think we dream!

" By little and little he got tired of the bustle of the day, the noise of carriages and carts, and people passing and re-passing; and would fall asleep, or be troubled with a restless, and uneasy sense againthe child could hardly tell whether this were in his sleeping or his waking momentsof that rushing river.

He perceived the colour of her hair, and eyes, and hands, and of the pale dress she wore; but her presence seemed revealed to him through the exaltation of some sense latent or non-existent in him in his waking moods.

what you heard was the wind, The feet of the wind through the leaves, Or the sigh of the waking night as it stirred.

It is a rich man who only exchanges the fever fancies of being pinched with hot pincers for waking pains.

The haughty king walked on the terrace heights of Babylon, and, beneath the calm splendor of an Assyrian sky, voiced the complacent feeling which dulled his sense of dependence upon Godas the perfumes of the East lull into waking-slumber the faculties of the soul.

Such was the dream of my waking soul, and I prayed, and such was my prayer: "Father, if thou deemest me worthy, take the cup from my people, and give it in their stead to me."

For the first who adventured got a stamp from my riding-boot which caused him to squeal out like a stuck pig, and but for the waking thunder of the organ might have gotten him a month's penance in addition.

She slept the strange deep sleep of those who dare not face the waking truth.

Again 'In the trances of this medium I cannot resist the conviction that knowledge appears which she has never gained by the ordinary waking use of her eyes, ears, and wits.

He could not even tell when the night gave way to cold day-break, for the fog cloaked everything from the sun's waking warmth.