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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. "
Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia: A Tale - Page 154
by Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 179 pages
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The Prince of Abissinia: A Tale : in Two Volumes, Volume 2

Samuel Johnson - 1759 - 184 pages
...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, with all their bounty cannot beftow. " In time fome particular train of ideas fixes the attention, all other intelleftual gratifications...
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The prince of Abissinia [by S. Johnson].

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...
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The history of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia. The vision of Theodore. The ...

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,...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Tales and visions: The history of ...

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 546 pages
...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 all their bounty, cannot beftow. " 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
...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, with all their bounty, cannot beftow. " In time, fome particular train of ideas fixes the attention, all other intellectual gratifications...
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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
...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, with all their bounty, cannot beftow. " In time, fome particular train of ideas fixes the attention ; all other intellectual gratifications...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson.LL.D..: A dissertation upon the Greek comedy ...

Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 586 pages
...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, with all their bounty, cannot beftow. " In time, fome particular train of ideas fixes the attention, all other intellectual gratifications...
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Solitude. Or the Effect of Occasional Retirement on the Mind, the ..., Volume 2

Johann Georg Zimmermann - 1799 - 390 pages
...unattainable dominion. The mind dances from fcene 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 train of ideas fixes the attention; all other intellectual gratifications...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 462 pages
...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, with all their bounty, cannot beftow. " In time,f'ome particular train of ideas fixes the attention, all other intellectual gratifications...
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