 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1879 - 820 pages
...the brain retains impressions of many things of which the conscious memory has entirely passed away. not be said to recollect them, for if I had been told...I should not have been able to acknowledge them as part of my past experience. But placed as they were before me in dreams like intuitions, and clothed... | |
 | J. Allan Hobson - 2002 - 358 pages
...give: The minutest incidents of childhood, or forgotten scenes of later years, were often revived: I could not be said to recollect them; for if I had...been able to acknowledge them as parts of my past Figure 14.1 The author of Confessions of an English Opium Eater, Thomas de Quincey (1785-1859) was... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 2003 - 356 pages
...experience. 4. The minutest incidents of childhood, or forgotten scenes of later years, were often revived: I could not be said to recollect them; for if I had...me, in dreams like intuitions, and clothed in all their evanescent circumstances and accompanying feelings. I recognized them instantaneously. I was... | |
 | Francis Moraes, Debra Kita - 2003 - 146 pages
...show up in his opium dreams. During his waking hours, however, he had no recollection of them at all. "But placed as they were before me, in dreams like intuitions, and clothed in all their evanescent circumstances and accompanying feelings, I [recognized] them instantaneously." OPIUM... | |
 | George Sampson (Editor of Berkeley's Works.) - 1931 - 348 pages
...experience. 4. The minutest incidents of childhood, or forgotten scenes of later years, were often revived. I could not be said to recollect them; for, if I had...before me in dreams like intuitions, and clothed in all their evanescent circumstances and accompanying feelings, I recognised them instantaneously. I was... | |
 | 308 pages
...experience. 4. The minutest incidents of childhood, or forgotten scenes of later years, were often revived. I could not be said to recollect them ; for, if I...before me in dreams like intuitions, and clothed in all their evanescent circumstances and accompanying feelings, I recognised them instantaneously. I was... | |
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The minutest incidents of childhood, or forgotten scenes of later years, were often revived : I could not be said to recollect them ; for if I had been told of them when waking, I should not have been able to acknowledge them as parts of my past experience.... 
