 | Samuel Johnson - 1759 - 184 oldal
...conditions that which for the prefent moment he mould moft defire, amufes his defires with impoffible enjoyments, and confers upon his pride unattainable dominion. The mind dances from fcene to fcene, unites all pleafures in all combinations, and riots in delights which nature and fortune,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1783 - 324 oldal
...conditions that which for the prefent moment he Ihould moft defire, amufes his defines with impoflible enjoyments, and confers upon his pride unattainable dominion. The mind dances from fcene to fcene, unites all pleafures in all combinations, and riots in delights, which nature and fortune,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 534 oldal
...conditions that which for the prefent moment he fliould moft defire, amufes his defires with impoffible enjoyments, and confers upon his pride unattainable dominion. The mind dances from fcene to fcene, unites all pleafures in all combinations, and riors in delights, which nature and fortune,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 560 oldal
...conditions that which for the prefent moment he fhould moft defire, amufes his defires with impoffible enjoyments, and confers upon his pride unattainable dominion. The mind dances from fcene to fcene, unites all pleafures in all combinations, and riots in delights, which nature and fortune,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 546 oldal
...conditions that which for the prefent moment he fhould moft defire, amufes his defires with impoflible enjoyments, and confers upon his pride unattainable dominion. The mind dances from fcene to icene, unites all pleafures in all combinations, and riots in delights, which nature and fortune,... | |
 | 1788 - 778 oldal
...upon his priJe unattainable ' dominion. The mind dances from ' fcene tolcene, unites all pleafiires in all ' combinations, and riots in delights, ' which...nature and fortune, with all ' their bounty, cannot bellow. ' In time, fnme particular train of ' ideas fixes the attention, all other in• telUch;al... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1790 - 318 oldal
...conditions that which for the prefent moment he fhould moft defire, amufes his defires with impoffible enjoyments, and confers upon his pride unattainable dominion. The mind dances from fcene to fcene, unites all pleafures in all combinations, and riots in delights, which nature and fortune,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 586 oldal
...conditions that which for the prefent moment he fhould moft defire, amufes his defires with impofiible enjoyments, and confers upon his pride unattainable dominion. The mind dances from fcene to fcene, unites all pleafures in all combinations, and riots in delights, which nature and fortune,... | |
 | Johann Georg Zimmermann - 1799 - 390 oldal
...conditions that which for the prefent moment he fhould moft defire, amufes his defires with impoffible enjoyments, and confers upon his pride unattainable dominion. The mind dances from fcene to fcene, unites all pleafures in all combinations, riots in delights which nature and fortune,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 458 oldal
...confers upon his pride unattainable dominion. The mind dances from fcene to fcenc, unites all pleafures in all combinations, and riots in delights, which nature and fortune, with all their bounty, cannot beftow. . " In time, tome particular train of ideas fixes the attention, all other intellectual gratifications... | |
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He who has nothing external that can divert him must find pleasure in his own thoughts, and must conceive himself what he is not ; for who is pleased with what he is? He then expatiates in boundless futurity, and culls from all imaginable conditions that... 
