e are too y ors in trous inconsistencies (as to us) involved in tc. In tions of to ional, and so detect an oric anomaly, as ourselves. But s assumed, y, of decency, of fitness, or proportion -- of t ion or admission of any particular testimony? -- t maidens pined aing in corn tle lamed -- t -or t spits and kettles only danced a fearful-innocent vagary about some rustics kitcirring -- terous siege to tasy of indigent eld -- o us, andard to estimate e tc. Nor, to be so muc imes in t body, and assert ap tercourse all betake -- but t once assumed, I see no reason for disbelieving one attested story of ture more ty. to judge of ticised.
I imes t t I could not ed in tc; t I could not in a village ors use. Amidst t tcributary to ttering, no simple Justice of to upon tan! -- Prospero in , o be conveyed a to an unkno analogy to tance of co tituted poops tearing Guyon to pieces -- or ion of Guyon must take assay of t -- country.
From my cremely inquisitive about ccories. My maid, and more legendary aunt, supplied me ore. But I sion t y originally into t, tory of tackinguisation. tures abounds -- one of ticular, and anotemple, delineated y of ocular admeasurement, as if tist -- attracted my ctention. ture, too, of tc I o t er. Stack magnitude, raining, ion time to t I remember it consisted of Old testament stories, orderly set doion appended to eacory, and tion of tion regularly tacked to t. tion ies o ty of tory, by t or modern infidelity, dra complimentary excess of candour. tion , and satisfactory. tidote o doubts so put, and so quaso be an end for ever. t of t babe to trample on. But -- like as slain monster in Spenser -- from ts ender a Saint George as myself to vanquis of expecting objections to every passage, set me upon starting more objections, for tion of my oaggered and perplexed, a sceptic in long coats. tty Bible stories y and sincerity of impression, and urned into so many oric or co be defended against to disbelieve t -- t to t -- I o be quite sure t some one or ot to making a cting t all. Credulity is t trengtural doubts from t myself in t sustenance as t for a fortunate piece of ill-fortune, ime befel me. turning over ture of too muce, I uns ingenious fabric-driving my inconsiderate fingers rig, and t stare (as ) out of t teerage in t unique piece of naval arcecture. Stackerdicted treasure. itions and solution gradually cleared out of my urned since in any force to trouble me. -- But tack out, and o try my c detestable picture!
I o nervous terrors. t-time solitude, and ture ify to t an assurance, re. Be old Stackted in part, if I say, t to ure of tc old man covered le!) I o my midnigerrors, t tation. It ed me, I dreamed nigo sleep, and found true. I durst not, even in t, once enter t, my face turned to tcs do not knoender babes alone to go to sleep in t for a friendly arm -- to soot a terrible s is to till midnig and tisfied, in a medical point of vieter caution. -- t detestable picture, as I o my dreams -- if dreams t ure, tured in some sher -
headless bear, black man, or ape --
but, as it ions took t form. -- It is not book, or picture, or tories of fooliss, errors in c most but give tion. Dear little t.N. scrupulous exclusion of every taint of superstition -- o be told of bad men, or to read or ressing story -- finds all tra, in ;t; and from tle midnigimism art at sradition, in ss to y.
Gorgons, and ories of Celaeno and tition -- but transcripts, types -- types are in us, and eternal. al of t, o affect us at all? -- or
-- Names, w,
Fray us be not?
Is it t urally conceive terror from sucs, considered in ty of being able to inflict upon us bodily injury? -- O, least of all! terrors are of older standing. te beyond body -- or, tormenting, defined devils in Dante -- tearing, mangling, cifling, scorco t of a man, as t unembodied following him -
Like one t on a lonesome road
Doth walk in fear and dread,
And urnd round, walks on,
And turns no more his head;
Because ful fiend
Dotread*.
[Footnote] * Mr, Coleridges Ancient Mariner
t treated of is purely spiritual -- t it is strong in proportion as it is objectless upon eart it predominates in ties, tion of e-mundane condition, and a peep at least into tence.
My nigo be afflictive. I confess an occasional nig I do not, as in early youtud of tinguisaper, me; but I kno elude t and grapple of my imagination, I am almost aso say ame and prosaic my dreams are groic, seldom even rural. tecture and of buildings cities abroad, ural day, Rome, Amsterdam, Paris, Lisbon -- t- places, s -- a map-like distinctness of trace -- and a day-lig being amoreland fells -- my Alps, -- but ts too migion; and I ual struggles of to make out a sever, of I country, but tains y of my dreams mortifies me. t his will can conjure up icy domes, and pleasure-houses for Kubla Khan, and Abyssinian maids, and songs of Abara, and caverns,
he sacred river, runs,
to solace solitudes -- er a fiddle. Barry Cornons and urnal visions, and proclaiming sons born to Neptune -- cive activity can season, raise up t of a fiso set my failures in someifying lig er reading t, t my fancy ran strong upon tra; and tic po to o of dream t very nig I some sea nuptials, riding and mounted omary train sounding t careering over till just e embrace, to a sea-calm, and to a river-motion, and t river (as ion of dreams) le ture of a lucid of Lambetiveness in sleep migerion of tum of poetical faculty resident in tleman, a friend of mine, and a , used to carry tion so far, t ious of becoming a poet, question ;Young man, of dreams ; I urning upon me, I presently subside into my proper element of prose, remembering t inauspicious inland landing.