 | 1794 - 450 pages
...undress, feed and wax hungry, work or play, and are weary, and then we lie down again, and the circle returns. We spend the day in trifles, and when the...night comes we throw ourselves into the bed of folly, amongst dreams, and broken thoughts, and wild imaginations. — Our leason lies asleep by us, and we... | |
 | Sir Richard Joseph Sullivan (bart.) - Philosophy - 1794 - 518 pages
...undress ; feed and wax hungry ; work or play, and are weary ; and then we lie down again, and the circle returns. We spend the day in trifles ; and when the night comes, we throw ourselves into the bed of repose, among dreams and broken thoughts, and wild imaginations. Our reason lies asleep with us, and... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 322 pages
...undress, feed and wax hungry, work or play, and are weary, and then we lie down again, and the circle returns. We spend the day in trifles, and when the night comes we throw ourselves into the hed of folly, amongst dreams, and broken thoughts, and wild imaginations. Our reason lies asleep by... | |
 | 1808 - 306 pages
...and wax hungry, work or play, and are weary, and then we lie down again, and the circle returns. \Vc spend the day in trifles, and when the night comes, we throw ourselves into the hed of folly amongst dreams and hroken thoughts and wild imaginations. Our reason lies asleep hy os,... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - English literature - 1809 - 312 pages
...spend the day in trifles ; and when the night conies, we throw ourselves into the bed of folly amongst dreams, and broken thoughts, and wild imaginations....reason lies asleep by us, and we are for the time as arrant brutes as those that sleep in the stalls or in the field. Are not the capacities of man higher... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1810 - 324 pages
...undress, feed and wax hungry, work or play, and are weary, and then we lie down again, and the circle returns. We spend the day in trifles, and when the...night comes we throw ourselves into the bed of folly, amongst dreams and broken thoughts, and wild imaginations. Our reason lies asleep by us, and we are... | |
 | Spectator The - 1811 - 802 pages
...undress, feed and wax hungry, work or play, nnd are weary, and then we lie down again, and the circle returns, We spend the day in trifles, and when the...night comes we throw ourselves into the bed of folly, amongst dreams, and broken thoughts, and wild imagination«. Our reason lies asleep by i», and we... | |
 | British essayists - 1819 - 316 pages
...undress, feed and wax hungry, work or play, and are weary,, and then we lie down again, and the circle returns. We spend the day in trifles, and when the...night comes we throw ourselves into the bed of folly, amongst dreams, and broken thoughts, and wild imaginations. Our reason lies asleep by us, and we are... | |
 | 1819 - 896 pages
...undress; feed, and wax hungry ; work or play, and are weary ; and then we lie down again, and the circle returns. We spend the day in trifles ; and when the night comes we throw ourselves into our beds, among dreams, and broken thoughts, and wild imaginations. Our reason lies asleep by us; and... | |
 | Spectator (London, England : 1711) - 1822 - 788 pages
...and wax hungry, work or play, and are weary, and then we lie down again, and the circle returns. \V"e in matter, and at the same time works •fter-so odd a manner, that one cannot >ed of folly, amongst dreams, and broken thoughts, and wild imaginations. Our reason lies asleep by... | |
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Earth in the following manner : " For what is this life but a circulation of little mean actions? We lie down and rise again, dress and undress, feed and wax hungry, work or play, and are weary, and then we lie down again, and the circle returns. We spend... 
