 | Johann Georg Zimmermann - Loneliness - 1808 - 430 pages
...imperious, and in time despotic : then fictions begin to operate as realities, false opinions fasten on the mind, and life passes in dreams of rapture or of anguish. This is one of the dangers of Solitude." These observations bring us to consider the character of the fanatical... | |
 | Nathan Drake - Adventurer - 1809 - 524 pages
...the luscious falsehood, whenever she is offended with the bitterness of truth. By degrees the reign of Fancy is confirmed ; she grows first imperious,..." This, Sir, is; one of the dangers of solitude."* In the paragraphs which we have just quoted there is much reason to suppose, that our moralist - '... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1809 - 530 pages
...the luscious falsehood, whenever she is offended with the bitterness of truth. By degrees the reign of Fancy is confirmed ; she grows first imperious,...anguish. " This, Sir, is one of the dangers of solitude." * In the paragraphs which we have just quoted there is much reason to suppose, that our moralist *... | |
 | Nathan Drake - Adventurer - 1809 - 520 pages
...the luscious falsehood, whenever she is offended with the bitterness of truth. By degrees the reign of Fancy is confirmed ; she grows first imperious,...false opinions fasten upon the mind, and life passes iii dreams of rapture or of anguish. " This, Sir, is one of the dangers of solitude."* In the paragraphs... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 458 pages
...the luscious falsehood, whenever she is offended with the bitterness of truth. By degrees the reign of fancy is confirmed; she grows first imperious,...despotick. Then fictions begin to operate as realities, fulse opinions fasten E F. 4 upon upon the mind, and life passes in dreams of rapture or of anguish.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1815 - 272 pages
...truth. By degrees the reign of fancy is confirmed ; she grows first imperious, and in time despotic. Then fictions begin to operate as realities, false...and life passes in dreams of rapture or of anguish. tc This, Sir, is one of the dangers of solitude, which the Hermit has confessed not always to promote... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English fiction - 1816 - 250 pages
...truth. By degrees the reign of fancy is confirmed ; she grows first imperious, and in time despotic: then fictions begin to operate as realities, false...of solitude, •which the hermit has confessed not alw.aya to promote goodness, and the astronomer's misery has proved to be not always propitious to... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1817 - 194 pages
...truth. By degrees the reign of fancy is confirmed ; she grows first imperious, and in time despotic : Then fictions begin to operate as realities, false...passes in dreams of rapture or of anguish. " This, s:.r, is one of the dangers of solitude, which the hermit has confessed not always to promote goodness,... | |
 | English literature - 1820 - 286 pages
...rejected. By degrees the reign of fancy is confirmed; she grows first imperious, and in time despotic ; then fictions begin to operate as realities, false opinions fasten upon the mind, and life passes away in dreams of rapture or of anguish.". Hasselas is, perhaps, of all its author's works, that in... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 278 pages
...truth. By degrees the reign of fancy is confirmed : she grows first imperious, and in time despotic. Then fictions begin to operate as realities, false opinions fasten upon the L3 mind, and life passes in dreams of rapture or of anguish. This, sir, is one of the dangers of solitude... | |
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By degrees the reign of fancy is confirmed ; she grows first imperious, and in time despotic: then fictions begin to operate as realities, false opinions fasten upon the mind, and life passes in dreams of rapture or of anguish. 
