10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SLUMBEROUSNESS»
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slumberousness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
slumberousness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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the sunday school teachers' magazine, and journal of education
J In the " Teachers' Magazine" for 1864, (page 589 et. seq.,) " A Bible Class
Teacher" objects to the interpretation so commonly given of the sleep of the Ten
Virgins, namely, that it represents some kind of spiritual slumberousness and
want of ...
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Breakfast in Bed: Or, Philosophy Between the Sheets. A ...
I have been to bed over and over again. I have carried my slumberousness about
with me, as Christian, in Cunyan's allegory, did his burden of sins ; but I cannot
depose that grim fardel. Leaden weights hang to PHILOSOPHY BETWEEN THE
...
George Augustus Sala, 1863
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The Greek Christian Poets and English Poets by Elizabeth ...
But the general level of the work is a dull talkativeness, a prosy adversity, who is
no “ Daughter of Jove,” and a slumberousness without a dream. We adjudge to
our reader the instructive history of the Phoenix. A phoenix is a single bird and ...
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1863
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My friends and acquaintance: memorials of deceased celebrities
... and action being congenial to the somewhat torpid and sluggish character of
his temperament ; for, when sitting still alone, his thoughts were apt to brood and
hover, in an uneasy slumberousness, over dangerous and intractable questions,
...
Peter George Patmore, 1854
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The Characteristics and Laws of Figurative Language: ...
Leaden is used also by a metaphor to denote the weightiness and
slumberousness of her reign. In the fourth line, dead and profound are used by a
metaphor to express absoluteness. In the next line, sleeps is used by a metaphor.
Pulse is ...
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The Greek Christian Poets and the English Poets
But the general level of the work is a dull talkativeness, a prosy adversity, who is
no " Daughter of Jove," and a slumberousness without a dream. We adjudge to
our reader the instructive history of the Phoenix. A phoenix is a single bird and ...
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1863
The good people did not remember it, having listened always with a certain
amount of distraction and slumberousness ; but Dr. Somers did, and had noted in
his pocket-book the times he had heard it. " Very good, with that story about John
...
Margaret Oliphant Oliphant, 1871
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Memorials of Theophilus Trinol, student
Meditative thought, that as a western wind brought me feelings so mildly glowing,
and of such gentle flow, brings me, if it continues too long, haze, gloom, and
slumberousness. The clear cold mathematics relieve me. Then, how bright and ...
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The Young Man and the World
Everybody, therefore, is literally "putting in his best licks" in America. In other
countries there is in comparison a general atmosphere of "what's the use?"—a
comparative slumberousness of activity and effort. Then, again, the American
people ...
Albert Jeremiah Beveridge, 2012
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Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning ...
Elizabeth Barrett Browning. would not be a bad thing were its traces only more
extended. But the general level of the work is a dull talkativeness, a prosy
adversity, who is no “Daughter of Jove,” and a slumberousness without a dream.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 2013
