 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...  The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D. - 339. oldalszerző: Samuel Johnson - 1806Teljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 162 oldal
...feasts on 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, in time, despotic. Then fictions begin to operate as realities, false opinions fasten upon the mind, and life... | |
 | Johann Georg Zimmermann - 1808 - 430 oldal
...feasts on the Inscious falsehood whenever she is offended with the bitterness of 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 on the mind, and life... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1809 - 524 oldal
...feasts on the luscious falsehood, whenever she is offended with the bitterness of truth. By degrees the reign of Fancy is confirmed ; she grows first..." 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 - 1809 - 530 oldal
...feasts on the luscious falsehood, whenever she is offended with the bitterness of truth. By degrees the reign of Fancy is confirmed ; she grows first...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 - 1809 - 520 oldal
...feasts on the luscious falsehood, whenever she is offended with the bitterness of truth. By degrees the reign of Fancy is confirmed ; she grows first...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 - 1809 - 210 oldal
...feasts on the luscious falsehood whenever she is offended with the bitterness of 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 mind, and life... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 458 oldal
...feasts on 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 - 1810 - 230 oldal
...feasts on the luscious falsehood, whenever she is offended with the bitterness of 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 mind, and life... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 194 oldal
...feasts on the luscious falsehood, whenever she is offended with the bitterness of 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 mind, and life... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1815 - 272 oldal
...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... | |
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