It was not until the first trance of bliss was over, that I began to think seriously on the course of life I was to pursue.

He tried to com-fort her, and to smile through his tears, as he put on his hat with a re-so-lute thump, seiz-ed up-on his stick and wal-let, and lift-ed the latch of the door that was to o-pen for his bold en-trance in-to the world, so full of pro-mise to him.

"I am indeed rejoiced," returned the king, "as thou now wilt without doubt proceed to heal my son, who has lain in a trance for twenty-nine days.

He was taken even to the palace of Afrásiyáb, unknown to all but to the emissaries and domestics of the princess, and there he awoke from the trance into which he had been thrown, and found himself clasped in the arms of his idol.

I had been talking of the power of communicating in states of trance with the angelical and faery beings,the children of the day and of the twilightand he had been contending that we should only believe in what we can see and feel when in our ordinary everyday state of mind.

"Know," pursued the spirit, "that the king's son will revive from his trance at the expiration of the thirtieth day, which takes place at noon to-morrow.

I don't mean really die, but go into a trance like death; she looked as if she was in one when I first saw her; I would not leave her, but I would sit by her, and watch her, and watch her." "Her lips would be always fresh and red," interrupted Nancy.

She hath her train: There thou may'st choose thy love: If world-wide lore Shall please thee, and the Cherub's glance of fire, Let Catharine lift thy soul, and rapt with her Question the mighty dead, until thou float Tranced on the ethereal ocean of her spirit.

He moved often along the water-fronts and through abandoned districts; a curious sense of unreality often came over him in these night rambles, as if he were tranced among the perversions of astral light.

And all about the opulent shelves Littered with porcelain beyond price: Imari pots arrayed themselves Beside Ming dishes; grain-of-rice Vied with the Royal Satsuma, Proud of its sallow ivory beam; And Kaga's Thousand Hermits lay Tranced in some punch-bowl's golden gleam.

Blake, the painter, whose life was almost as much a series of trances as that of our Seherin, in his designs of the Resurrection, represents spirits as rising from, or hovering over, their bodies in the same way.

[Footnote a: Compare Tennyson's way of attaining a state of trance by repeating to himself his own name.]

The grocer himself, despite his sober judgment, could scarcely believe he had not been in a trance during the whole period.

I feared for his reason if he saw you, except in a trance from his trance he will wake to happiness!"

And when I looked at Ham, I saw that no help was needed, for the old man was coming out of his twenty-five-years' trance over Percy.

Who will say that they are not sustained on fictions wilder than his own Glendoveer, that they are not the daring creations of a mind curbed by no law, tamed by no fear, that they are not rather like the trances than the waking dreams of genius, that they are not the very paradoxes of poetry?

What I felt that successful night, and what I did, I no more expected to feel and do than to be lifted in a trance to the seventh heaven.