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" I have seen a dreadful vision since I saw you. I have seen my dear wife pass twice by me through this room with her hair hanging about her shoulders and a dead child in her arms. This I have seen since I saw you. "
Ecclesiastical Biography: Or, Lives of Eminent Men, Connected with the ... - Page 427
1818
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The History of the Life and Adventures of Mr. Duncan Campbell: A Gentleman ...

Daniel Defoe, William Bond - Deaf - 1720 - 366 pages
...dreadful Vifion, fince I faw you : I have feen my dear Wife pafs Twice by me, through this Room , with her Hair hanging about her Shoulders , and a dead Child in her Arms .• This I have feen, fince I faw you. To which Sir Robert reply 'd, Sure, Sir, you have flept fince I faw you ; and...
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The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland, to the Time ..., Volume 1

Robert Shiells, Theophilus Cibber - Poets, English - 1753 - 366 pages
...flept fince you faw me, and this is the refult of fome melancholy dream, which I defire you to forger, for you are now awake. To which Mr. Donne's reply was : I cannot be furer that I now live, thau that I have not flept fmce I faw you ; and am as fure that at her fecond...
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Miscellanies Upon Various Subjects

John Aubrey - Folklore - 1784 - 324 pages
...I faw you, and this is the refult of .jf/"j(bme melancholy dream, which I defire you " to . fo/get, for you are now awake." To which Mr. Donne's reply was, " I cannot be . -tc;furer that J now live, . than ; that I have not " flept fince I faw you, and am fure that at...
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Lives of Dr. John Donne; Sir Henry Wotton; Mr. Richard Hooker; Mr. George ...

Izaak Walton, Thomas Zouch - Authors, English - 1796 - 640 pages
..." yon have flept fince I faw you, and this is the refult of fome melancholy " dream, which I defire you to forget, for you are now awake." To which Mr. Donne's reply was, " I cannot be furer that I now live, than that I *' have not flept fince I faw you ; and I am as fure, thaf at her...
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News from the invisible world; or, Interesting anecdotes of the dead

John Tregortha - 1800 - 462 pages
...seen a dreadful vision. I have seeh *ays he, my dear wife pass twice by me, through this room, with her hair hanging about her shoulders, "and a dead child in her arms. A messenger \v:s immediately dispatched to Eng'and, to enquire after Mrs. Donne, and it appeared, that...
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The Christian guardian (and Church of England magazine).

1828
...dreadful vision since I saw you : I have seen my dear wife pass twice by me through this room, with her hair hanging about her shoulders, and a dead child in her arms. This I have seen since I saw you." Sir Robert, who was doubtless aware that his friend, at all times highly imaginative, had recently...
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The Lives of Dr. John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr. Richard Hooker ..., Volume 1

Izaak Walton - 1805 - 426 pages
...you have flept fince I faw " you; and this is the refult of fonie me" lancholy dream, which I defire you to " forget, for you are now awake." To which Mr. Donne's reply was, " I can" not be furer that I now live, than that " I have not flept fince I faw you : and I " am as fure,...
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The Lives of John Donne: Sir Henry Wolton, Mr. Richard Hooker, Mr ..., Volume 1

Izaak Walton - 1805 - 438 pages
...you have flept fince I faw " you; and this is the refult of fome me" lancholy dream, which I defire you to " forget, for you are now awake." To which Mr. Donne's reply was, " I can" not be furer that I now live, than that " I have not flept fince I faw you : and I " am as fure,...
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Biographia evangelica; or, An historical account of ... the most ..., Volume 2

Erasmus Middleton - 1810 - 556 pages
...since I " saw you." To which Sir Robert answered : * Sure, * sir, you have slept since I went out i and this is the « result of some melancholy dream,...I desire you « to forget, for you are now awake.' Mr Donne answered i " I cannot be surer thnt 1 now live, than that I " have not slept since I saw you...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Volume 5

Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 746 pages
...biographers. He saw, or fancied he saw, his wife pass through the room in which he was sitting alone, with her hair hanging about her shoulders, and a dead child in her arms. This story he often repeated, and with so much confidence and anxiety, that sir Robert sept a messenger...
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