单词 | dream figure |
释义 | > as lemmasdream figure b. With the sense ‘that is seen or experienced in a dream’; ‘that is dreamed about’; (also) ‘that is illusory, unreal, etc., as in a dream’, as dream-child, dream country, dream figure, dream-hall, dream image, dream-kingdom, dream-light, dream scenery, etc. Sometimes coloured by sense B. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > dream > [noun] > image which appears in phantom1557 phantasma1598 dream vision1702 dream figurec1819 dream imagec1819 dream-picture1840 dream landscape1865 dreamscape1876 c1819 S. T. Coleridge Marginalia (1998) IV. 781 In sleep the Sensations..are the causes of our Dream-images. 1821 Morning Chron. 31 Dec. (advt.) Dream-Children; a Reverie, by Elia. 1834 T. De Quincey S. T. Coleridge in Tait's Edinb. Mag. Sept. 511/1 It is very possible..that..he had meditated a poem on delirium, confounding its own dream scenery with external things. 1835 E. S. Wortley Travelling Sketches 35 All shall be mine again! and fitly seen, By pale, pure Dream-light. 1844 E. B. Barrett Poems II. 115 The bird shall be my harper in the dream-hall I have won. 1852 Examiner 13 Nov. 724/3 Compared with such creations [sc. those of Fielding] we too often find in Mr Thackeray's works dream figures only. 1869 G. M. Hopkins Jrnls. & Papers (1959) 194 The dream-images also appear to have little or no projection. 1882 Cent. Mag. Mar. 661/1 These stair-ways still stand, and make a curious picture, breaking in like dream-views of the past upon the busy modern street. 1904 Westm. Gaz. 26 Apr. 8/1 Ariadne, pale and dainty as a dream-flower. 1918 E. Sitwell Clowns' Houses 11 Then, mirage-waters as they flow, Or dream-perfumes, they fade and go. 1925 T. S. Eliot Poems 1909–25 96 Eyes I dare not meet in dreams In death's dream kingdom. 1926 M. Leinster Dew on Leaf 114 Dream-son be all that I shall ever know. 1989 J. Updike Self-consciousness vi. 242 Now the dog heaves in his sleep, woofing at some dream-prey. 2003 S. Feld tr. J. Rouch Ciné-ethnography 132 It was a dream country. The cliffs of Bandiagara were like the cliffs in Salvador Dali's paintings. < as lemmas |
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