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But what gave to this spot a strange and almost weird character was the number of great hoary willows, thirty or forty feet high, with gnarled and twisted boles, scattered over the dark green grass. It was a melancholy grove of fantastic dream-haunted willows, such as belongs to the South and the Virgilian muse: 'Umbrarum hic locus est, somni noctisque soporae.
"You have guessed right, most learned sir; we are, as you say, wanderers seeking our fortunes, and trust yet to find them still we have a weary journey before us, 'Haustus horâ somni sumendum, as Aristotle hath it; which I need not translate to so learned a person as yourself." "Nay, indeed, there is no occasion; yet am I pleased to meet with one who hath scholarship," replied the other.
By far the greater number, to a very great degree. Really, that is very alarming! Sunt geminoe somni portoe. There are two gates through which ghosts find their way to the upper air: fraud and self-delusion. In the latter case, a ghost is a deceptio visus, an ocular spectrum, an idea with the force of a sensation. I have seen many ghosts myself.
Urgebat praecipue subsistens prorsus et intercepta respiratio ad prima somni initia; unde somnus prorsus prohibebatur, cum formidabili strangulationis molestia. Hinc hydrops pedum, crurum, femorum, scroti, praeputii, et abdominis. Quae tamen omnia sublata.
You know, master, that the secret of keeping well, according to Hippocrates; id est: cibi, potus, somni, venus, omnia moderata sint." "So you have no care, Master Pierre?" resumed the archdeacon, gazing intently at Gringoire. "None, i' faith!" "And what are you doing now?" "You see, master. I am examining the chiselling of these stones, and the manner in which yonder bas-relief is thrown out."
"You have guessed right, most learned sir; we are, as you say, wanderers seeking our fortunes, and trust yet to find them still we have a weary journey before us. `Haustus hora somni sumendum, as Aristotle hath it; which I need not translate to so learned a person as yourself." "Nay, indeed, there is no occasion; yet am I pleased to meet with one who hath scholarship," replied the other.
One of her sisters had 2 twin terms, 1 child surviving; like her own children, all were females. A second sister had a twin term, both males, 1 surviving. The other sister aborted female twins after a fall in the eighth month of pregnancy. The name of the patient was Mussamat Somni, and she was the wife of a respectable Indian carpenter.
Sunt geminae somni portae, quarum altera fertur Cornea, qua veris facilis datur exitus umbris: Altera candenti perfecta nitens elephanto, Sed falsa ad coelum mittunt insomnia manes. 'So if we put on sobriety and attention we shall find it a sure maxim in knowledge, that the more pleasant liquor of wine is the more vaporous, and the braver gate of ivory sendeth forth the falser dreams.
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