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" ... and surely it is not a melancholy conceit to think we are all asleep in this world, and that the conceits of this life are as mere dreams to those of the next; as the phantasms of the night to the conceits of the day. "
Bentley's Miscellany - Page 434
edited by - 1864
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Religio medici. To which is added, sir Digby's Observations. Also critical notes

sir Thomas Browne - 1754 - 420 pages
...content with a fit of happinefs ; and furely it is not a melancholy conceit to think we are all afleep in this world, and that the conceits, of this life are as mere dreams to thofe of the next, as the phantafmes of the night, to the conceits of of the day. There is an equal...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the ..., Volume 3

George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 1152 pages
...tisfaction in them unto reasonable desires, and such as can be content with a fit of happiness. And surely it is not a melancholy conceit to think we...of the next, as the phantasms of the night to the conceits of the day. There is an equal delusion in both, and the one doth but seem to be the emblem...
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Specimens of English prose-writers, from the earliest times to the ..., Volume 3

George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
...tisfactiou in them unto reasonable desires, and such as can be content with a fit of happiness. And - surely it is not a melancholy conceit to think we...of the next, as the phantasms of the night to the conceits of the day. There is an equal delusion in both, and the one doth but seem to be the emblem...
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Fire-side scenes, by the author of the Bachelor and married man. 3vols

Fireside scenes - 1825 - 920 pages
...satisfaction in them unto reasonable desires, and such as can be content with a fit of happiness ; and surely it is not a melancholy conceit to think we...are as mere dreams to those of the next, — as the phantasmas of the night, to the conceits of the day. There is an equal delusion in both, and the one...
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Miscellaneous Works of Sir Thomas Browne: With Some Account of the Author ...

Sir Thomas Browne - 1831 - 362 pages
...satisfaction in them unto reasonable desires, and such as can be content with a fit of happiness ; and surely it is not a melancholy conceit to think we...of the next, as the phantasms of the night to the conceits of the day. There is an equal delusion in both, and the one doth but seem to be the emblem...
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The Library of the Old English Prose Writers ...: Works of Sir Thomas Browne

English literature - 1831 - 370 pages
...satisfaction in them unto reasonable desires, and such as can be content with a fit of happiness ; and surely it is not a melancholy conceit to think we...of the next, as the phantasms of the night to the conceits of the day. There is an equal delusion in both, and the one doth but seem to be the emblem...
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Religio Medici: To which is Added Hydriotaphia, Or Urn-burial; a Discourse ...

Sir Thomas Browne - Christian ethics - 1841 - 346 pages
...is a satisfaction unto reasonable desires, and such as can be content with a fit of happiness. And surely it is not a melancholy conceit to think we...of the next, as the phantasms of the night, to the conceits of the day. There is an equal delusion in both, and the one doth but seem to be the emblem...
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 20

Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, Timothy Flint, John Holmes Agnew - Periodicals - 1842 - 614 pages
...wotld, and that the conceits of this life nre as mere dreams to those of the next, as the phantaums of the night to the conceit of the day. There is an equil delusion in both, and the one doth bnt seem to be the cmhlc-m or picture of the other: we are...
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Christian Examiner and Theological Review, Volume 33

Theology - 1843 - 424 pages
...satisfaction in them unto reasonable desires, and such as can be content with a fit of happiness ; and surely it is not a melancholy conceit to think we...this world, and that the conceits of this life are as meer dreams to those of the next, as the phantasms of the night to the conceit of the day. There is...
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Religio Medici [and] Its Sequel Christian Morals

Sir Thomas Browne - Christian ethics - 1844 - 238 pages
...satisfaction in them unto reasonable desires, and such as can be content with a fit of happiness ; and surely it is not a melancholy conceit to think we...of the next, as the phantasms of the night to the conceits of the day. There is an equal delusion in both, and the one doth but seem to be the emblem...
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