 | Spectator The - 1853 - 558 pages
...undress, feed and wax hungry, work or play, and are weary, and then we lie down again, and the circle returns. We spend the day in trifles; and when the...night comes, we throw ourselves into the bed of folly amongst dreams, and broken thoughts, and wild imaginations. Our reason lies asleep by us, and we are... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - Quotations, English - 1853 - 442 pages
...undress, feed and wax hungry, work or play, and are weary, and then we lie down again, and the circle returns. We spend the day in trifles, and when the...night comes we throw ourselves into the bed of folly, amongst dreams, and broken thoughts, and wild imaginations. Our reason lies asleep by us, and we are... | |
 | Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 570 pages
...undress, feed and wax hungry, work or play, and are weary, and then we lie down again, and the circle returns. We spend the day in trifles, and when the...reason lies asleep by us, and we are for the time as arrant brutes as those that sleep in the stalls, or in the field. Are not the capacities of man higher... | |
 | Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 372 pages
...hungry, work or play, and are weary, and then we lie down again, and the circle returns. We spend tne day in trifles, and when the night comes we throw ourselves into the bed of folly, amongst dreams, and broken thoughts, and wild imaginations. Our reason lies asleep by us, and we are... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 374 pages
...hungry, work or play, and are weary, and then we lie down again, and the circle returns. We spend tne day in trifles, and when the night comes we throw ourselves into the bed of folly, amongst dreams, and broken thoughts, and wild imaginations. Our reason lies asleep by us, and we are... | |
 | Spectator The - 1857 - 780 pages
...undress, feed and wax hungry, work or pi iy, and are weary, and then we lie down again, and the circle returns. We spend the day in trifles, and when the...night comes we throw ourselves into the bed of folly, amongst dreams, and broken thoughts, and wild imaginations. Our reason lies asleep by us, and we are... | |
 | John Richardson Major - 1858 - 216 pages
...undress, feed and wax hungry, work or play, and are weary, and then we lie down again, and the circle returns. We spend the day in trifles, and when the...night comes we throw ourselves into the bed of folly, amongst dreams, and broken thoughts, and wild imaginations. Our reason lies asleep by us, and we are... | |
 | John Henry Freese - Immortality - 1864 - 292 pages
...undress, feed and wax hungry, work or play, and are weary, and then we lie down again, and the circle returns. We spend the day in trifles, and when the...thoughts, and wild imaginations. Our reason lies asleep beside us, and we are for the time as arrant brutes as those that sleep in the stall, or in the field.... | |
 | Joseph Addison - English essays - 1864 - 472 pages
...spend the day in trifles, and when the night comes we throw ourselves into the bed of folly, amongst dreams, and broken thoughts, and wild imaginations....reason lies asleep by us, and we are for the time as arrant brutes as those that * Dr. Thomas Burnet, Master of the Charter-house, author of -Telluris sacra... | |
 | 1867 - 602 pages
...undress, feed and wax hungry, work or play, and are weary, and then we lie down again, and this circle returns. We spend the day in trifles, and when the...night comes we throw ourselves into the bed of folly, amongst dreams, and broken thoughts, and wild imaginations. Our reason lies asleep by us, and we are... | |
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Earth in the following manner : " For what is this life but a circulation of little mean actions? We lie down and rise again, dress and undress, feed and wax hungry, work or play, and are weary, and then we lie down again, and the circle returns. We spend... 
