Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1844-02-16
From the Columbian for February.
MOODS OF THE MIN D.
THE OLD PORTRAIT.
BY MRS. EMMA c. EMBURY.

1--WE are the stuff
That dreams are made of and our little life
Is rounded bya Sleep
was amused and interested by discus
sion which | heard a few days since, be-
tween two persons who were my near neigh
bors on board - ferry boat. They
had been in close conversation when they
entered the cabin, and as they did not lower
tones | soon discovered that the dapper,
neatly whiskered, dogmalic little man be-
side me was young physician who had just
been ground out by the saw bones mill and
was not yet sfted, if one might Judge by
the husks of learning which seemed mingled
with the good grain. His companion, "A
modest, pale faced, sickly seeming German,
evidently regarded him with much respect
and listened TO him as if there were no pos
sib|o appeal from his opinions.
Depend upon it, SIR said the doctor,
depend upon 1t there is great deal of mis-
conception about this matter person who
dreams cannot be said to be asleep; (this
was startling proposition, by the way, to
one who is an accomplished sleeper, and a
most inveterate dreamer y yon may rely
upon it that no person ever enjoys quiet,
natural, healthful sleep if his mental ficul-
ties are awake he continued, tapping his
little cane most determnedly against the toe
Of his boot.
But said the German timidly, you
surely do not mean to say that the habit of
dreaming argues an unsound state Of the
physical system; there are persons who en-
Joy the most robust health and yet whose
faculty for dreaming is almost an idiosyn-
cracy.'
Impossible, my dear sir = and the doc
tor compressed his lips with the air of a man
who knows he is right; the mental faculties
slumber with the corporeal functions; the
man who is under the influence of profund
heal.lful sleep is, in manner, dead to all
Impressions Inconsistencies, total forget
funess of every mental and bodily capacity,
are necessary to the enjoyment of repose.-
No, sir; slumber may bring dreams, but
sleep must be unbroken by the vagaries of
the Imagination therefore man is not
asleep when he Dreams
This was uttered in such Johnsonian STYLE
there was such bridling up of the neck,
such peculiar pigeon-breasted swelling out
of the speakers person, as if he would have
saio:
Ma Nam 1,S Sir Oracle r., and and wi when ope
A., ~, "o1'": "' ~ u'e pa'N'
W." ",' 'o"Pa".o" was s'e"eeu " not con,
r"'eu' ~ '','S moment .''e ooa' 'oncneo
Tue ~"ar' anu soon 'os' s'sht OF the 'h'er,
'oo"'o,s' W, as "ended my way cou'o
no' "eiP ,.''"N'"9 now muc' cause nau 10
'ee' ply 'or Myself 'or' " 'ne doctors the
10y ~',e uue' from my cn''ohoou 10 Inc
PI p:''. "our "aa ne'er S.ept'
.. 80. sly s"''u 1 oe 70 oe'eVe any
ue" "ass s;'., ut r. I"u '"u'eu won',
oe NY P'V""o" 'o'"Pe"eu :" 'e',"q"'S'
ny noc'"'n'' w""ne''"g'' /" '"c 'a'ry''aho
dreams surrey ""e"
W. Da neNe, ss SHOWS Tvs Us realms OF light
mo NAV re;n;ce IN ,ho hr;rh,,os, and h,,.,,
of ,h,; sn;r;, l;c, .h;c,, ,',o D."u''
wh;,s ,he f,,o,s of ola, o,;aa ". ,aa I"'e -
,bev do !, onr wst inn onns 10y "a; a
c.res md tolls ito aav;a,;as ,,d j., J"''h ~
-. 'o -. o' ""n 10 u'u"''
en-, .;,. ,J a., ,,,;,l. .I I:
81" rIss anu SET WITHOUT the destruction
some Idif scheme, the whitening OF SOM
GREEN hope Amid tho ,I,,o or s,,.l;,,
O.. H., ~
W. H'e d"u move anu suHer; II brings u
active, seniient life; but It is all external
the world claims nc and tho .na.,;a. e A.
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