 | John Brand, Henry Ellis - Christian antiquities - 1849 - 520 pages
...befalls him. Another seer, driving home his cattle, or wandering in idleness, or musing in the sunshine, is suddenly surprised by the appearance of a bridal...the dresses. Things distant are seen at the instant when they happen. Of things future I know not that there is any rule for determining the time between... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - Folklore - 1882 - 368 pages
...befalls him. Another seer, driving home his cattle, or wandering in idleness, or musing in the sunshine, is suddenly surprised by the appearance of a bridal...if he knows them not he can describe the dresses." Woodrow tells of " a popish lady," living near Boroughbridge, who dreamed that she saw a coach, and... | |
 | William Henry Kearley Wright - Cornwall (England : County) - 1882 - 276 pages
...him. Another seer driving home fiii cattle, or wandering in idleness, or musing in the eu ash mo, ¡s suddenly surprised by the appearance of a bridal ceremony,...he relates the names, if he knows them not, he can di scribe the dresses. Things distant are aeon at the instant when they happen. Of things future I... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1897 - 918 pages
...befalls him. Another seer, driving home his cattle, or wandering in idleness, or musing in the sunshine, is suddenly surprised by the appearance of a bridal...the dresses. Things distant are seen at the instant when they happen ' (Dr. Johnson's Journey^ to the Hebrides). ' The vision makes such a lively impression... | |
 | Thomas Firminger Thiselton Dyer - Ghosts - 1898 - 470 pages
...befalls him. Another seer, driving home his cattle, or wandering in idleness, or musing in the sunshine, is suddenly surprised by the appearance of a bridal...the dresses. Things distant are seen at the instant when they happen.' ' At the Literary Club,' says Boswell, ' before Johnson came in, we talked of his... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1898 - 978 pages
...befalls him. Another seer, driving home his cattle, or wandering in idleness, or musing in the sunshine, is suddenly surprised by the appearance of a bridal...the dresses. Things distant are seen at the instant when they happen" (Johnson's Journey to (he Hebrides). With respect to things future, Johnson thought... | |
 | John Brand, Henry Ellis - Christian antiquities - 1900 - 886 pages
...idleness, or musing in the sunshine, is suddenly surprised by the appearance of a bridal ceremony, or a funeral procession, and counts the mourners or attendants,...the dresses. Things distant are seen at the instant when they happen. Of things future I know not that there is any rule for determining the time between... | |
 | John Brand, Henry Ellis - Christian antiquities - 1900 - 808 pages
...suddenly surprised by the ea ranee of a bridal ceremony, or a funeral procession, and counts the turners or attendants, of whom, if he knows them, he relates the names, if knows them not, he can describe the dresses. Things distant are seen at the rant when they happen.... | |
 | John Brand, Henry Ellis, William Carew Hazlitt - Fasts and feasts - 1905 - 366 pages
...befalls him. Another seer, driving home his cattle, or wandering in idleness, or musing in the sun-shine, is suddenly surprised by the appearance of a bridal...the dresses. Things distant are seen at the instant when they happen. Of things future I know not that there is any rule tor determining the time between... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1906 - 270 pages
...befalls him. Another seer, driving home his cattle, or wandering in idleness, or musing in the sunshine, is suddenly surprised by the appearance of a bridal...the dresses. Things distant are seen at the instant when they happen. Of things future I know not that there is any rule for determining the time between... | |
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... A man on a journey far from home falls from his horse ; another, who is perhaps at work about the house sees him bleeding on the ground, commonly with a landscape of the place where the accident befalls him. Another seer, driving... 
