Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »
Sign in
Books Books
" 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. - Page 339
by Samuel Johnson - 1806
Full view - About this book

Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia

Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 162 pages
...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...
Full view - About this book

Solitude

Johann Georg Zimmermann - 1808 - 430 pages
...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...
Full view - About this book

Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical: Illustrative of ..., Volume 1

Nathan Drake - 1809 - 524 pages
...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 - '...
Full view - About this book

Essays: Biographical, Critical, and Historical; Illustrative of ..., Volume 1

Nathan Drake - 1809 - 530 pages
...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 *...
Full view - About this book

Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical Illustrative of the ..., Volume 1

Nathan Drake - 1809 - 520 pages
...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...
Full view - About this book

Rasselas: A Tale

Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 210 pages
...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...
Full view - About this book

The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and ..., Volume 3

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 458 pages
...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....
Full view - About this book

Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia: A Tale

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 230 pages
...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...
Full view - About this book

Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia: A Tale

Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 194 pages
...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...
Full view - About this book

The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia: A Tale

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...
Full view - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search
  4. Download EPUB
  5. Download PDF