"But it is urged, that in sleep, the soul is passive, and haunted by visions, which she would gladly get rid of if she could"
— Beattie, James (1735-1803)
Author
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell ... and W. Creech
Date
1783
Metaphor
"But it is urged, that in sleep, the soul is passive, and haunted by visions, which she would gladly get rid of if she could"
Metaphor in Context
... --But it is urged, that in sleep, the soul is passive, and haunted by visions, which she would gladly get rid of if she could. And it may be urged in answer, for it is not less true, that persons afflicted with anxiety and melancholy too often find, to their sad experience, that their soul is almost equally passive, when they are awake; for that they are, even then, haunted with tormenting thoughts, from which all their powers of reason, all the exertions of their will, and all the exhortations of their friends, cannot effectually relieve them.
(p. 229)
(p. 229)
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Reading
Citation
Beattie, James. Dissertations Moral and Critical. Printed for Strahan, Cadell, and Creech: London, 1783. Facsimile-Reprint: Friedrich Frommann Verlag, Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt, 1970.
Date of Entry
07/26/2005
