"As in madness, the senses, from struggling with the imagination, are at length forced to submit, so, in sleep, they seem for a while soothed into the like submission: the smallest violence exerted upon any one of them, however, rouzes all the rest in their mutual defence; and the imagination, that had for a while told its thousand falshoods, is totally driven away, or only permitted to pass under the custody of such as are every moment ready to detect its imposition."
An History of the Earth: and Animated Nature
At least 11 entries in ESTC (1774, 1776, 1777, 1779, 1782, 1785, 1790, 1791, 1795).<br>
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<u>An History of the Earth: and Animated Nature: by Oliver Goldsmith.</u> 8 vols.
(London: Printed for J. Nourse, 1774). &lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004897225.0001.002">Link to vol. II, ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;