The author hastens to confess echoings from bygone days, hintings of vagrant fancies, and whimsical reveries wherein appeared the vague evasive outlines of half-remembered things.
At first the reveries into which she often sank, and which were so unlike her former self, had been still worse.
Highland civility of his attendant had not permitted him to disturb the reveries of our hero.
You certainly know the time when astrology and the philosopher's stone were in fashion; the believers in these reveries were men of science.
Ignorance of this is the cause of all reveries in science, as in religion; it is only superstition that incites men to launch beyond their conceptions.
One day his reveries were disturbed by a visitor who presented a bill.
In the retirement of his own room, his reveries grew longer, and his prayers shorter and less inspired by faith and earnestness.
In spite of her purpose to the contrary, she caught herself continually thinking of Dennis, and indulging in strange, delicious reveries in regard to him.
Defend me therefore, common sense, say I, From reveriesso airy, from the toil Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up!
A definite literary ambition grew up in me, and in the long reveries of the afternoon, when I was distributing my case, I fashioned a future of overpowering magnificence and undying celebrity.
This saved me a great deal of heated controversy with my contemporaries, but I had it out in many angry reveries with Dr.
The gossiping stories and mystifications of Herodotus, and the reveries of the good Rollin, are worth as much, and have not cost so dear.
With respect to the zodiacal light, that rock against which so many reveries have been wrecked, it consists of the most volatile parts of the primitive nebula.
Hers was the only face that he recalled distinctly; to her and to her only were devoted his long reveries when on watch; that time when he formerly composed his love verses, tender or angry, or full of despair.
For that reason I do not attach myself to this world, nor indulge as others do in reveries about the future.
One must examine closely the reveriesof human pride to be able to judge of them.
A sentence of more than a hundred and fifty words that follows quite graphically depicts a walk taken with this friend, and the child continued: "From such reveries of the past was I awakened by the stopping of the cars at Albany.
The excitement of travelling and the loved home to which I was hastening were alike forgotten in these reveries of the past.
Genial and tender at times, amidst their sadness, his reveries are nevertheless darkened by the shadow of coming death; and it is not until the opening of "The Dolliver Romance" that the darkness breaks away.
I might fill a volume with the reveries of a sea voyage; for with me it is almost a continual reverie--but it is time to get to shore.
THERE are certain half-dreaming moods of mind in which we naturally steal away from noise and glare, and seek some quiet haunt where we may indulge our reveries and build our air castles undisturbed.
These hydrographic reveries have for the most part disappeared; but the lakes Cassipa and Dorado have been long simultaneously preserved on our maps.
It was natural that suchreveries should produce morbid romances.
I could have remained there for hours; I could have gone again and again, for I had not found a more interesting spot in Greece; but my reveries were disturbed by the appearance of my muleteer and my juvenile escort.
Our servant had talked so much of the hotel at Corinth, that perhaps the idea of bed and lodging was rather too prominent in our reveries as we approached the fallen city.
I often let my boat float at the mercy of the wind and water, abandoning myself to reveries without object, and which were not the less agreeable for their stupidity.
In the midst of my reveries I had a visit from Madam d'Houdetot, the first she had ever made me, but which unfortunately was not the last, as will hereafter appear.
This choice was so agreeable to my peaceful inclinations, and my solitary and indolent disposition, that I consider it as one of the pleasing reveries of which I became the most passionately fond.
All the dreams of those musing hours of her hidden reveries had been realised.
His dreaming reveries had never pictured a being half so beautiful!
The produce of one of these reveries you have read above.
My reveries on my good and evil fortune were suddenly interrupted by a letter which reached me that evening, having been forwarded from Callonby by a special messenger.
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