rêverie

plural rêveries

1. alternativecountableuncountableAlternative spelling of reverie.

   The most important aspect of the Ile de St. Pierre accounts—that of the state of rêverie itself—also attains, in the Fifth Promenade, a literary rendering free from all references to the external social world and from concern for the reader’s comprehension.

   1978, Essays in Literature, page 249

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   The different habits and commercial purſuits of the modern world have rendered it neceſſary to diſcard the rêveries of the philoſophers and ſchoolmen, who have argued and fulminated againſt the practice of lending money for gain; and, indeed, ſome ſpeculators have plauſibly maintained the abſurdity and impolicy of any legal interference with reſpect to the terms of pecuniary negotiations.

   1797, The Critical Review; or, Annals of Literature, volume the twentieth, London: Printed for A. Hamilton, […], page 87

   Though imperfect, it was the foundation of the rêveries of Brown, and of the very reſpectable work before us.[…]If we differ, therefore, in this firſt ſtep, from our author, it is not likely that we ſhall co-incide with him in the following opinion, which we can only ſtyle an ingenious rêverie.[…]The neceſſity and exiſtence, however, of external objects, are evinced by this circumſtance, that the ideas excited in rêveries and dreams are only repetitions of ſenſible impreſſions from external objects, weakened, diſtorted, or differently combined.[…]The facts which reſpect the catenation of motions are well connected and correctly deſcribed; and thoſe relating to ſleep, rêverie, vertigo, and drunkenneſs, are highly worthy of attentive peruſal.[…]A rêverie is that ſtate, in which, from volition or diſeaſe, the mind is ſo fully engaged with an object, that external ſtimuli have no effect.[…]After a ſhort rêverie, he ordered a large baſon to be ſo filled with water, that the addition of a ſingle drop would ſpill the liquor; then he gave a ſign for the introduction of the candidate, who made his appearance with that ſimple and modeſt air, which almoſt always announces true merit.

   1798, The Critical Review; or, Annals of Literature, volume the twenty-second, London: Printed for A. Hamilton, […], pages 121, 128, 402, 404, 406, 504

   He demands that every reader endeavor to participate actively and freely in the rêverie of the poet; that a man in his creative dreaming has become a poet for him is the most valuable indication of the distance between his original point of view (when he thought of dreamers as “esprits sans netteté)” and his present one.[…]The first article of the surrealist program is that expression must be kept plastique if it is to communicate (in the rêverie guided by anima) the constant fluctuations of desire.

   1966, Mary Ann Caws, Surrealism and the Literary Imagination: A Study of Breton and Bachelard, Mouton & Co., →ISBN, pages 22, 56

   I would like now to linger on the part prior to the encounter: the poet describes the setting: the nature, with the babbling of water and the peace and amenity of the spot, while he himself was sitting under a tree (resedi sub arbore)—everything contributes to suggesting that the man is asleep; the time of day, nocte iam emerita, is enhanced by the prestige of the topos of the rêverie: then, concentus avium / et susurri fontium / garriente rivulo / per convexa montium / removerent tedium, and just at this moment the girl appears. / The suspicion that the girl’s appearing in this no man’s land at twilight is only the result of a rêverie or a fantasy would be quite uncertain if we were to rely on this poem alone.

   1983, Carlos Miralles, Jaume Pòrtulas, “The Young Girl from Paros”, in Archilochus and the Iambic Poetry, Edizioni dell’Ateneo, page 141