, xi. 51 (1824).
At length my enemy appeared, and I went forward some yards like a Drawcansir, but found myself seized with a panic as Paris was when he presented himself to fight with Menelaus.—Lesage, Gil Blas, vii. (1735).
Dream Authorship. Coleridge says that he wrote his Kubla Khan from his recollection of a dream.
Condillac (says Cabanis) concluded in his dreams the reasonings left incomplete at bed-time.
Dreams. The Indians believe all dreams to be revelations, sometimes made by the familiar genius, and sometimes by the "inner or divine soul." An Indian, having dreamt that his finger was cut off, had it really cut off the next day.—Charlevoix, Journal of a Voyage to North America.
Dream´er (The Immortal), John Bunyan, whose Pilgrim's Progress is said by him to be a dream (1628-1688).
The pretense of a dream was one of the most common devices of mediaeval romance, as, for example, the Romance of the Rose and Piers Plowman, both in the fourteenth century.
Dreary (Wat), alias BROWN WILL, one of Macheath's gang of thieves. He is described by Peachum as "an irregular dog, with an underhand way of disposing of his goods" (act i.1).—Gay, The Beggar's Opera (1727).