| Samuel Johnson - 1783 - 324 pages
...riots in delights, which nature and fortune, with all their bounty, cannot bellow. ** In time, fome particular train of ideas fixes the attention, all...intellectual gratifications are rejected, the mind, in wearinefs or leifure, recurs conftantly to the favourite conception, and feafts on the lufcious falfehood,whenever... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 546 pages
...riots in delights, which nature and fortune, with all their bounty, cannot beftow. " In time, fome particular train of ideas fixes the attention, all...intellectual gratifications are rejected, the mind, in wearinefs or leifure, recurs conftantly to the favourite conception, and feafts on the lufcious falfehobd,... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 534 pages
...riors in delights, which nature and fortune, with all their bounty, cannot beftow. " In time, fome particular train of ideas fixes the attention, all...intellectual gratifications are rejected, the mind, in wearinefs or leifure, recurs conftantly to the favourite conception, and feafts on the lufcious falfehood,... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 560 pages
...riots in delights, which nature and fortune, with all their bounty, cannot beftow. " In time, fome particular train of ideas fixes the attention, all other intellectual gratifications are rejefted, the mind, in wearinefs or leifure, recurs conftantly to ^he favourite conception, and feafts... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1790 - 318 pages
...riots in delights, which nature and fortune, with all their bounty, cannot beftow. " In time, fome particular train of ideas fixes the attention ; all other intellectual gratifications are rejected ; themind, in wearinefs or leifure, recurs conftantly to the favourite conception, and feafts on the... | |
| Johann Georg Zimmermann - 1799 - 390 pages
...combinations, riots in delights which nature and fortune, with all their bounty, cannot beftow. In time fome particular train of ideas fixes the attention; all...intellectual gratifications are rejected ; the mind, in wearinefs or leifure, recurs conftantly to the favourite conception, and feafts on the lufcious falfehood,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 462 pages
...riots in delights, which nature and fortune, with all their bounty, cannot beftow. " In time,f'ome particular train of ideas fixes the attention, all...intellectual gratifications are rejected, the mind, in wearinefs or leilure, recurs conftantly to the favourite conception, and feafts on the lufcious falfehood,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 162 pages
...combinations* and riots in delights which nature and fortune, with all their bounty, cannot bestow. In time some particular train of ideas fixes the attention,...other intellectual Gratifications are rejected, the mind,in weariness or leisure,recurs constantly to the favourite conception, and feasts on the luscious... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 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 - 1808 - 430 pages
...combinations, riots in delights which nature and fortune, with all their bounty, cannot bestow. In tiine some particular train of ideas fixes the attention...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... | |
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