...Hailey tickling my nose with a feather I Kind reader, 1 had been dreaming. Well might Byron say — " A slumbering thought is capable of years, And curdles a long life ioto one hour." THE DAISY. What little flow'rct yonder gleams, Amid the tall grass sleeping ? Kaeli...

...With beings brighter than have been, and give A breath to forms which can outlive all flesh. * * * * A thought, A slumbering thought, is capable of years, And curdles a long life into one hour. Byron. IMAGINATION. THE effects of foreign travel have been often rei not only in rousing the curiosity...

...formation, and the character of the country is admirably described by Byron in his " Dream :" — « A hill, a gentle hill, Green, and of mild declivity, the last As t' were the cape of a long ridge of such, Save that there was no sea to lave its base, But a most living...

...been, and give A breath to forms which can outlive all flesh. I would recall a vision which I dream'd Perchance in sleep ; for in itself a thought, A slumbering...capable of years, And curdles a long life into one hour. I saw two beings in the hues of youth Standing upon a hill, a gentle hill, Green and of mild declivity,...

...been, and give A breath to forms which can outlive all flesh. I would recall a vision which I dream'd Perchance in sleep — for in itself a thought, A...capable of years, And curdles a long life into one hour. n. I saw two beings in the hues of youth Standing upon a hill, a gentle hill, Green and of mild declivity,...

...ESCAPE FROM THE EXECUTIONER O rif in • 1 . AN ESCAPE FROM THE EXECUTIONER. BT JOHN c. M'C.VBE, MD " A slumbering thought is capable of years, And curdles a long life into one hour." — Byron. MURDER ! The deep forest, and the far off hills sent back the horrid cry. Thrice I essayed...

...reality, And dreams in their development have breath, And tears, mid tortures, and the touch of joy ; for in itself a thought, A slumbering thought, is...of years, And curdles a long life into one hour." GREEN was the forest glade, for summer now On every flower, plant and tree, had marked The season as...

...seasons of agony, 414 ESSAYS. BY AN INVALID. whether of mind or body. Byron says to the purpose — " A slumbering thought is capable of years, And curdles a long life into one hour." Pain or joy become, in their several ways, the gauges of duration — the former lengthening it out...

...dreams in their development have breath, And tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy ; for in iiselfa thought, A slumbering thought, is capable of years, And curdles a long life into one hour.'1 GREEN was the forest glade, for summer now On every flower, plant and tree, had marked The...

...— and give A breath to forms which can outlive all flesh. I would recall a vision which I dream'd Perchance in sleep, — for in itself a thought, A...capable of years, And curdles a long life into one hour. I saw two beings in the hues of youth Standing upon a hill, a gentle hill, Green and of mild declivity,...