 | 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
...and 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
...nature 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... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1809 - 530 pages
...and 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 despotick. Then fictions begin to operate as realities, false opinions fasten upon the mind, and life... | |
 | Nathan Drake - Adventurer - 1809 - 524 pages
...and 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 despotick. Then fictions begin to operate as realities, false opinions fasten upon the mind, and life... | |
 | Nathan Drake - Adventurer - 1809 - 520 pages
...and 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 despotick. Then fictions begin to operate as realities, false opinions fasten upon the mind, and life... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Ethiopia - 1810 - 230 pages
...and fortune, with all their bounty, cannot bestov/. " In time, some particular train of ideas fixes the attention, all other intellectual gratifications...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 - 1811 - 428 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 despotick. Then fictions begin to operate as realities, false opinions fasten upon the mind; and life... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Francis William Blagdon - English fiction - 1811 - 250 pages
...and 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 despotick. Then fictions begin to operate as realities, false opinions fasten upon the mind, and life... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 484 pages
...and 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 despotick. 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... 
