 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 162 pages
...attention, all other intellectual Gratifications are rejected, the mind,in weariness or leisure,recurs constantly to the favourite conception, and feasts...the luscious falsehood whenever she is offended with th& bitterness of truth. By degrees the reign of fancy is confirmed ; she grows first imperious, and,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 376 pages
...fortune, with all their bounty, cannot bestow. " In time, some particular train of ideas fixe* the attention, all other intellectual gratifications are rejected, the mind, in weariness or leisure, re. curs constantly to the favourite conception, and feasts on the luscious falsehood, whenever she... | |
 | Johann Georg Zimmermann - Loneliness - 1808 - 430 pages
...and fortune, with all their bounty, cannot bestow. In tiine some particular train of ideas fixes the attention ; all other intellectual gratifications...constantly to the favourite conception, and feasts on the Inscious falsehood whenever she is offended with the bitterness of truth. By degrees the reign of fancy... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Historical fiction - 1809 - 210 pages
...and fortune, with all their beauty, cannot bestow. " In time some particular train of ideas fixes the attention, all other intellectual gratifications are...confirmed ; she grows first imperious, and in time despotic. Then fictions begin to operate as realities, false opinions fasten upon the mind, and life... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 458 pages
...fortune, with all their bounty, cannot bestow. " In time, some particular train of ideas fixes the attention, all other intellectual gratifications are...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 - Ethiopia - 1810 - 230 pages
...fortune, with all their bounty, cannot bestov/. " In time, some particular train of ideas fixes the attention, all other intellectual gratifications are...in weariness or leisure, recurs constantly to the favorite conception, and feasts on the luscious falsehood, whenever she is offended with the bitterness... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English fiction - 1811 - 194 pages
...fortune, with all their bounty, cannot bestow. " In time, some particular train of ideas fixes the attention, all other intellectual gratifications are...confirmed; she grows first imperious, and in time despotic. Then fictions begin to operate as realities, false opinions fasten upon the mind, and life... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1815 - 272 pages
...and fortune, wilh all their bounty, cannot bestow"In time, some particular train of ideas fixes the attention ; all other intellectual gratifications...confirmed ; she grows first imperious, and in time despotic. Then fictions begin to operate as realities, false opinions fasten upon the mind, and life... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English fiction - 1816 - 250 pages
...fortune, with all their bounty, cannot bestow. " In time, some particular train of ideas fixes the attention ; all other intellectual gratifications...confirmed ; she grows first imperious, and in time despotic: then fictions begin to operate as realities, false opinions fasten upon the mind, and life... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1817 - 194 pages
...train of ideas fixes the attention ; all other intellectual gratifications are rejected ; the mind, itl weariness or leisure, recurs constantly to the favourite...confirmed ; she grows first imperious, and in time despotic : Then fictions begin to operate as realities, false opinions fasten upon the mind, and life... | |
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In time some particular train of ideas fixes the attention ; all other intellectual gratifications are rejected ; the mind, in weariness or leisure, recurs constantly to the favourite conception, and feasts on the luscious falsehood whenever she is offended... 
