| Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 162 pages
...apparently influences speech or action. "To indulge the power of fiction, and send imagination out upon the wing, is often the sport of those who delight...speculation. When we are alone we are not always busy - f the labour of excogitation is too violent to last long; the ardour of inquky will sometimes give... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 376 pages
...apparently influences Speech or action. " To indulge the power of fiction, and send, imagination out upon the wing, is often the sport of those who delight...violent to last long ; the ardour of inquiry will sonjetimes give way to idleness or satiety. He who has nothing external that can divert him, must find... | |
| Johann Georg Zimmermann - 1808 - 430 pages
...tyrannize. " To indulge the power of fiction," says a celebrated writer, f< and send imagination out upon the wing, is often the sport of those who delight...inquiry will sometimes give way to idleness or satiety. lie who has nothing external that can divert him, must find pleasure in his own thoughts, and must... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1809 - 530 pages
...apparently influences speech or action. " To indulge the power of fiction, and send imagination out upon the wing, is often the sport of those who delight...nothing external that can divert him, must find pleasure in his own thoughts, and must conceive himself what lit is not; for who is pleased with what he is?... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1809 - 524 pages
...apparently influences speech or action. " To indulge the power of fiction, and send imagination out upon the wing, is often the sport of those who delight...nothing external that can divert him, must find pleasure in his own thoughts, am) must conceive himself what he is not ; for who is pleased with what he is?... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 210 pages
...apparently influences speech or action. " To indulge the power »f fiction, and send imagination out upon the wing, is often the sport of those who delight...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 ?... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1809 - 520 pages
...apparently influences speech or action. " To indulge the power of fiction, and send imagination out upon the wing, is often the sport of those who delight...the labour of excogitation is too violent to last l°ng; the ardour of inquiry will sometimes give way to idleness or satiety. He who has nothing external... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 458 pages
...apparently influences speech or action. " To indulge the power of fiction, and send imagination out upon the wing, is often the sport of those who delight...inquiry will sometimes give way to idleness or satiety. lie who has nothing external that can divert him, must find pleasure in his own thoughts, and must... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 230 pages
...apparently influences speech or aftion. " To indulge the power of fiction, and send imagination out upon the wing, is often the sport of those who delight...speculation. When we are alone we are not always busy ; the labor of excogitation is too violent to last long ; the ardor of inquiry will sometimes give way to... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Francis William Blagdon - 1811 - 250 pages
...apparently influences speech or action. " To indulge the power of fiction, and send imagination out upon the wing, is often the sport of those who delight...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 ?... | |
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