Dreams. Grocott's Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?

Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.

Dreams


Dreams in their development have breath, And tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy, They have a weight upon our waking thoughts, They take a weight from off our waking toils, They do divide our being. Byron.—The Dream, Line 5.	1
Led by those waking Dreams of Thought, That warm the young unpractis’d breast. Langhorne.—Owen of Carron, Verse 19.	2
Like the dreams, Children of night, of indigestion bred. Churchill.—The Candidate, Line 784.	3
But if, as morning rises, dreams are true. Dante.—Inferno, Canto XXVI. Line 7. Ben Jonson.—Love Restored, a song. Bruce.—Elegy, written in Spring, Verse 19.	4
A vision after midnight, when dreams are true. Horace.—Book I. Sat. 10. Page 179. Bohn’s Ed. by Buckley.	5
Towards dawn, the lamp now flickering, (at the time when true visions are wont to be seen.) Ovid.—Epi. XIX, page 219, Bohn’s Ed. by Riley.	6
Like the dream That o’ertook me at my waking hour, This morn; and dreams they say are then divine. Dryden.—Don Sebastian, Act IV. Scene 1.	7
At break of day, when dreams, they say, are true. Dryden.—The Spanish Friar, Act III. Scene 2.	8