...A JOURNEY HOMEWARD ; THE AUTHOR HAVING RECEIVED INTELLIGENCE OF THE BIRTH OF A SON, SEPT. 20, 1796. Oft o'er my brain does that strange fancy roll Which...past, Mixed with such feelings, as perplex the soul Sclf-ciueslioned in her sleep : and some have said We lived, ere yet this robe of flesh we wore. O...

...JOURNEY HOMEWARD ; THE AUTHOR HAVING RECEIVED INTELLIGENCE OF THE BllU'H OF A SON, SEPT. 20, 1796. Oft o'er my brain does that strange fancy roll Which...past, Mixed with such feelings, as perplex the soul Sell-questioned in her sleep : and some have said We lived, ere yet this robe of flesh we wore. O my...

...immortality has probably a psychological basis in this strange feeling of familiarity. Coleridge writes : " And some have said we lived ere yet this robe of flesh we wore." One writer speaks of these ' 'convictions of metempsychosis difficult to shake off. ' ' Sir James Crichton-Browne,...

...to, — Oft o'er my brain does that strange rapture roll Which makes the present (while its brief fit last) Seem a mere semblance of some unknown past, Mixed with such feelings as distress the soul When dreaming that she dreams.1 Next as to "mystical." Now that the thinking part...

...immortality has probably a psychological basis in this strange feeling of familiarity. Coleridge writes: "And some have said we lived ere yet this robe of flesh we wore." One writer speaks of these "convictions of metempsychosis difficult to shake off." Sir James Crichton-Browne,...

...sorts and sizes, seems to have been disposed to take this view of their hidden meaning, for he said : " Oft o'er my brain does that strange fancy roll, Which...such feelings as perplex the soul Self-questioned in its sleep ; and some have said We lived ere yet this robe of flesh we wore. " And Russell Lowell was...

...JOURNEY HOMEWARD; THE AUTHOR HAVING RECEIVED INTELLIGENCE OF THE BIRTH OF A SON, SEPT. 20, 1796 OKT o'er my brain does that strange fancy roll Which makes...unknown past, Mixed with such feelings, as perplex thc soul Self-questioned in her sleep ; and some have said We lived, ere yet this robe of flesh we...

...JOURNEY HOMEWARD ; THE AUTHOR HAVING RECEIVER INTELLIGENCE OF THE BIRTH OF A ' SON, SEPT. 2O, 1796 OFT o'er my brain does that strange fancy roll Which...last) Seem a mere semblance of some unknown past, (hat face offeeble ¡nf:mcy . For dimly on my thoughtful spirit burst All I had been, and all my child...

...much to forget Ere the time be come for taking you. Coleridge, in " On a Homeward Journey : " Oft in my brain does that strange fancy roll Which makes the present (while the flash does last) Seem a mere semblance of some unknown past, Mixed with such feelings as perplex the soul...

...•= — TT- H . S. OLCOTT REBIRTH. As TATTGHT IN ANCIENT INDIA AND BELIEVED IN MODERN EUROPE. Oft in my brain does that strange fancy roll Which makes the present (while the flash does last) Seem a mere semblance of some unknown past, Mixed with sitch feelings as perplex the soul...