 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 pages
...the mind frequent, and how they were contracted. CHAP. XLIV. THE DANGEROUS PREVALENCE OF IMAGINATION. no human mind is in its right state". There is no...will be found, in whose mind airy notions do not, sotaetimes, tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability. All power... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Johnson - 1825 - 508 pages
...contracted. CHAP. XLIV. THE DANGEROUS PREVALENCE OF IMAGINATION. •"DISORDERS of intellect," answered Imlac, "happen much more often than superficial observers...who can regulate his attention wholly by his will, and-whose ideas will come and go at his command. No man will be found, in whose mind airy notions do... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 508 pages
...contracted. CHAP. XLIV. THE DANGEROUS PREVALENCE OF IMAGINATION. "DISORDERS of intellect," answered Imlac, "happen much more often than superficial observers...rigorous exactness, no human mind is in its right state6. There is no man, whose imagination does not, sometimes, predominate over his reason, who can... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 750 pages
...CHAPTER XLIV. The dangerous Prevalence of ImaginatiMi. *' DISORDERS of intellect," answered Jmlac, " happen much more often than superficial observers...believe. Perhaps if we speak with rigorous exactness, no huumn mind is in its right state. There is no man whose imagination does not ben» time» predominate... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1827 - 160 pages
...? CHAP. XLIV. The dangerous Prevalence of Imagination. " DISORDERS of intellect," answered Imlac, " happen much more often than superficial observers...found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannise, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability. All power of fancy... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 402 pages
...visitation he has ascribed principally to the indulgence of imagination in the shades of solitude : — " Disorders of intellect," he remarks, " happen much...found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannise, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability. All power of fancy... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 460 pages
...visitation he has ascribed principally to the indulgence of imagination in the shades of solitude : — " Disorders of intellect," he remarks, " happen much...found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannise, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability. All power of fancy... | |
 | John Wilson Croker - 1836 - 656 pages
...visitation he has ascribed principally to the indulgence of imagination in the shades of solitude : — " Disorders of intellect," he remarks, " happen much...who can regulate his attention wholly by his will, anil whose ideas will come and go at his command. No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do... | |
 | 1830 - 1112 pages
...prostrate before well-grounded fears of mental alienation. " Disorders of intellect," answered Imlac, " happen much more often than superficial observers...reason, who can regulate his attention wholly by his mill, and whose ideas will come and go at his command. No man will be found in whose mind airy notions... | |
 | John Wilson Croker - 1842 - 544 pages
...visitation he has ascribed principally to the indulgence of imagination in the shades of solitude: — " Disorders of intellect," he remarks, " happen much...found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannise, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability. All power of fancy... | |
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DISORDERS of intellect,' answered Imlac, ' happen much more often than superficial observers will easily believe. Perhaps, if we speak with rigorous exactness, no human mind is in its right state. There is no man whose imagination does not sometimes predominate... 
