| Robert Gray - Dreams - 1808 - 362 pages
...our sleep. "• At my nativity," says he, " my ascendant was the watery sign of Scorpius; I was born in the planetary hour of Saturn, and I think I have...am no way facetious, nor disposed for the mirth and galliardise of company; yet in one dream I can compose a whole comedy, behold the action, apprehend... | |
| Spectator The - 1808 - 348 pages
...ascendant was the watery sign of Scorpius : I was horn in the planetary hour of Saturn, and I thint I have a piece of that leaden planet in me. I am no way factions, nor dispused for the mirth and gallisrdize of company; yet in one dream I can compuse i whole... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1810 - 316 pages
...the fancies of our sleeps, At my nativity my ascendant was the watery sign of Scorpius : I was born in the planetary hour of Saturn, and I think I have...whole comedy,, behold the action, apprehend the jests, aad laugh myself awake at the conceits thereof. Were my memory as faithful as my reason is then fruitful,... | |
| Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - English literature - 1810 - 348 pages
...the fancies of our sleeps. At my nativity, my ascendant was the watery sign of Scorpius : I was born in the planetary hour of Saturn, and I think I have a piece of that leaden planet in me ; I am noway facetious, nor disposed for the mirth and galliardize of company ; yet in one dream I can compose... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1811 - 522 pages
...the fancies of our sleeps. At my nativity my ascendant was the watery sign of Scorpius : I was born in the planetary hour of Saturn, and, I think, I have...dream I can compose a whole comedy, behold the action, comprehend the jests, and laugh myself awake at the conceits thereof. Were my memory as faithful as... | |
| Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 522 pages
...fancies of our sleeps. At my nativity my ascendant was the watery sign of Scorpius :• I was born in the planetary hour of Saturn, and, I think, I have...dream I can compose a whole comedy, behold the action, comprehend the jests, and laugh myself awake at the conceits thereof. Were my memory as faithful as... | |
| Encyclopaedia Perthensis - 1816 - 772 pages
...exuberant gaiety. Not in ufe.— At my nativity m> afcendant was the watery fign of Scorpius; I •was born in the planetary hour of Saturn, and I think I have a piece of that leaden planet in rnr: I am no way facetious, nor difpofcd>for the mirth; and %al/i(irtiift of company. Erewo. GALLIC;... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1818 - 288 pages
...my nativity," says Sir Thomas Browne, " my ascendant was the earthly sign of Scorpius ; I was born in the planetary hour of Saturn, and I think I have a piece of that leader! planet in me." One would think that he were anatomizing a tailor ! save that to the latter's... | |
| James Ferguson - English essays - 1823 - 394 pages
...the fancies of our sleeps. At my nativity my ascendant was the watery sign of Scorpius ; I was born in the planetary hour of Saturn, and I think I have...for the mirth and galliardize of company ; yet in * By Sir T. Brown, MD one dream I can compose a whole comedy, behold the action, apprehend the jests,... | |
| Thomas Byerley - 1823 - 528 pages
...At my nativity," says Sir Thomai Browne, "my ascendant was the earthly sign of Scorpius; I was born in the planetary hour of Saturn, and I think I have a piece of that leaden planet In me." One would think that he were anatomizing л tailor ! save to the latter's occupation, methinks, a woollen... | |
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