“ Our life is no dream; but it ought to become one, and perhaps will. ”
George MacDonald, Phantastes (1858). copy citation
| Author | George MacDonald |
|---|---|
| Source | Phantastes |
| Topic | life dream |
| Date | 1858 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/325/325-h/325-h.htm |
Context
“Soon as my senses have all come back, and have grown accustomed to this new blessed life, I will be among you with the love that healeth.»
With this, a pang and a terrible shudder went through me; a writhing as of death convulsed me; and I became once again conscious of a more limited, even a bodily and earthly life.
CHAPTER XXV «Our life is no dream; but it ought to become one, and perhaps will.» —NOVALIS. «And on the ground, which is my modres gate, I knocke with my staf; erlich and late, And say to hire, Leve mother, let me in.» CHAUCER, The Pardoneres Tale.
Sinking from such a state of ideal bliss, into the world of shadows which again closed around and infolded me, my first dread was, not unnaturally, that my own shadow had found me again, and that my torture had commenced anew.” source
With this, a pang and a terrible shudder went through me; a writhing as of death convulsed me; and I became once again conscious of a more limited, even a bodily and earthly life.
CHAPTER XXV «Our life is no dream; but it ought to become one, and perhaps will.» —NOVALIS. «And on the ground, which is my modres gate, I knocke with my staf; erlich and late, And say to hire, Leve mother, let me in.» CHAUCER, The Pardoneres Tale.
Sinking from such a state of ideal bliss, into the world of shadows which again closed around and infolded me, my first dread was, not unnaturally, that my own shadow had found me again, and that my torture had commenced anew.” source
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