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" The mind dances from scene to scene, unites all pleasures in all combinations, and riots in delights which nature and fortune, with all their bounty cannot bestow. "
The Works of Samuel Johnson.LL.D..: A dissertation upon the Greek comedy ... - Page 327
by Samuel Johnson - 1792
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The Prince of Abissinia: A Tale : in Two Volumes, Volume 2

Samuel Johnson - 1759 - 184 pages
...conditions that which for the prefent moment he mould moft defire, amufes his defires with impoffible enjoyments, and confers upon his pride unattainable...particular train of ideas fixes the attention, all other intelleftual gratifications are rejeded, the mind, in wearinefs or leifure, recurs conftantly to the...
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The prince of Abissinia [by S. Johnson].

Samuel Johnson - 1783 - 324 pages
...conditions that which for the prefent moment he Ihould moft defire, amufes his defines with impoflible enjoyments, and confers upon his pride unattainable...nature and fortune, with all their bounty, cannot bellow. ** In time, fome particular train of ideas fixes the attention, all other intellectual gratifications...
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The history of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia. The vision of Theodore. The ...

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 560 pages
...conditions that which for the prefent moment he fhould moft defire, amufes his defires with impoffible enjoyments, and confers upon his pride unattainable...the attention, all other intellectual gratifications are rejefted, the mind, in wearinefs or leifure, recurs conftantly to ^he favourite conception, and...
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The history of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia. The vision of Theodore. The ...

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 534 pages
...conditions that which for the prefent moment he fliould moft defire, amufes his defires with impoffible enjoyments, and confers upon his pride unattainable...fcene, unites all pleafures in all combinations, and riors in delights, which nature and fortune, with all their bounty, cannot beftow. " In time, fome...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Tales and visions: The history of ...

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 546 pages
...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, with...
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The Novelist's Magazine, Volume 23

1788 - 778 pages
...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...
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The Prince of Abissinia: A Tale

Samuel Johnson - 1790 - 318 pages
...conditions that which for the prefent moment he fhould moft defire, amufes his defires with impoffible enjoyments, and confers upon his pride unattainable...attention ; all other intellectual gratifications are rejected ; themind, in wearinefs or leifure, recurs conftantly to the favourite conception, and...
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Solitude. Or the Effect of Occasional Retirement on the Mind, the ..., Volume 2

Johann Georg Zimmermann - 1799 - 390 pages
...conditions that which for the prefent moment he fhould moft defire, amufes his defires with impoffible enjoyments, and confers upon his pride unattainable...to fcene, unites all pleafures in all combinations, riots in delights which nature and fortune, with all their bounty, cannot beftow. In time fome particular...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 462 pages
...boundlefs futurity, and culls from all imaginable conditions that which for the prefent moment he mould moft defire, amufes his defires with impofiible enjoyments,...fortune, with all their bounty, cannot beftow. " In time,f'ome particular train of ideas fixes the attention, all other intellectual gratifications are...
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Dissertation on Greek comedy fr. Brumoy. Observations on Macbeth. Adventurer ...

Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 458 pages
...conditions that which for the prefent moment he fhould moft defire, amufes hi*.defires with impoffible enjoyments, and 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...
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