 I used to wish the Arabian Tales were true : my imagination ran on unknown influences, on magical powers, and talismans I thought life might be a dream, or I an Angel, and all this world a deception, my fellow-angels by a playful device concealing themselves...  The Age of Tennyson - Page 149by Hugh Walker - 1904 - 309 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1870 - 846 pages
...Arabian Tales were true ; my imngina.Mnii ran on unknown influences, on magical powers and talismans. ... I thought life might be a dream, or I an angel, and...all this world a deception, my fellow-angels by a playlul device concealing themselves from me, and deceiving me with the semblance of a material world."... | |
 | John Henry Newman (card.) - 1864 - 598 pages
...Arabian Tales were true : my imagination ran on unknown influences, on magical powers, and talismans I thought life might be a dream, or I an Angel, and...deceiving me with the semblance of a material world." Again, "Reading in the Spring of 1816 a sentence from [Dr. Watts's] 'Remnants of Time,' entitled 'the... | |
 | 1864 - 808 pages
...'Arabian Nights' were true; my imagination ran on unknown influences, on magical powers and talismans. ... I thought life might be a dream, or I an angel, and...deceiving me with the semblance of a material world ; and I was very superstitious, and for some time previous to my conversion (when I was fifteen) used... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1864 - 600 pages
...universal doubt. Here are a few passages of the character we have described : — ' In my school-days I thought life might be a dream, or I an angel, and...deceiving Me with the semblance of a material world.' — Apol. p. 56. ' When I was fourteen I read Paine's Tracts against the Old Testament, and found pleasure... | |
 | 1864 - 610 pages
...universal doubt. Here are a few passages of the character we have described : — 'In my school-days I thought life might be a dream, or I an angel, and...deceiving me with the semblance of a material world.' — Apol. p. 5G. ' When I was fourteen I read Paine's Tracts against the Old Testament, and found pleasure... | |
 | 1864 - 890 pages
...day-dreaming. His imagination ran upon magical powers and the like. " I thought life might be a drearn. or I an angel, and all this world a deception, my...deceiving me with the semblance of a material world," p. 56. That tb;s was not a mere passing trait, appears from other statement.-, For instance, the strong... | |
 | 1864 - 808 pages
...Nights' were true ; my imagination ran on unknown influences, on magical powers and talismans. ... I thought life might be a dream, or I an angel, and...playful device, concealing themselves from me, and deeeiving me with the semblance of a material world; and I was very snperBtitious, and fur some time... | |
 | 1864 - 602 pages
...universal doubt. Here are a few passages of the character we have described : — ' In my school-days I thought life might be a dream, or I an angel, and all this world a deception, my fellow-angols by a playful device concealing themselves from me, and deceiving Me with the semblance... | |
 | 1864 - 990 pages
...talismans I thought life might bo a dream, or I an angel, and all the world a deception, my fellow angels, by a playful device, concealing themselves from me,...deceiving me with the semblance of a material world. . . . Heading, in the spring of 1816, from Dr. Watts' Remnants of Time, entitled ' The Saints Unknown... | |
 | John Henry Newman - 1865 - 448 pages
...Arabian Tales were true : my imagination ran on unknown influences, on magical powers, and talismans I thought life might be a dream, or I an Angel, and...deceiving me with the semblance of a material world." Again : " Reading in the Spring of 1816 a sentence from [Dr. Watts's] 'Remnants of Time,' entitled... | |
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