 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 612 pages
...sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability. All power Xj of fancy over reason is a degree of insanity, but...bestow. " In time, some particular train of ideas fixes attention, all other intellectual gratifications are rejected, the mind, in weariness or leisure, recurs... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 64 pages
...impossible enjoyments, and confers upon his pride unattainable dominion. The mind dances from scene to scene, unites all pleasures in all combinations,...and feasts on the luscious falsehood, whenever she in offended with the bitterness of truth. By degrees the reign of fancy is confirmed; si is grows first... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 514 pages
...impossible enjoyments, and confers upon his pride unattainable dominion. The mind dances from scene to scene, unites all pleasures in all combinations,...and fortune, with all their bounty, cannot bestow. " lu time, some particular train of ideas fixes the attention ; all other intellectual gratifications... | |
 | Johann Georg Zimmermann - 1830 - 416 pages
...unattainable dominion. The mind dances from scene to scene, unites all pleasures ill all combinations, riots in delights which nature and fortune, with all...in weariness or leisure, recurs constantly to the favorite conception, and feasts on the luscious falsehood whenever she is offended with the bitterness... | |
 | John Abercrombie - 1835 - 296 pages
...impossible enjoyments, and confers upon his pride unattainable dominion. The mind dances from scene to scene, unites all pleasures in all combinations,...in weariness or leisure, recurs constantly to the favorite conception, and feasts on the luscious falsehood whenever she is offended with the bitterness... | |
 | 1835 - 616 pages
...sets. One mind has adorned it perhaps with all the magnificence and splendor of wealth. It has united all pleasures in all combinations, and riots in delights which nature and fortune with all their bounty, could not bestow. Another has admitted into her paradise nothing that can disturb her peace or annoy... | |
 | John Abercrombie - 1838 - 298 pages
...impossible enjoyments, and confers upon his pride unattainable dominion. The mind dances from scene to scene, unites all pleasures in all combinations,...in weariness or leisure, recurs constantly to the favorite conception, and feasts on the luscious falsehood whenever she is offended with the bitterness... | |
 | 1838 - 274 pages
...The mind dances from scene to scene, unites all pleasures in all combinations, and riots in delight which nature and fortune, with all their bounty, cannot...constantly to the favourite conception, and feasts on the luseious falsehood whenever she is offended with the bitterness of truth. By degrees the reign of |... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1838 - 128 pages
...impossible enjoyments, and confers upon his pride unattainable dominion. The mind dances from scene to scene, unites all pleasures in all combinations,...bounty, cannot bestow. In time, some particular train of idea? fixes the attenmind, in weariness cr leisure, recurs constantly to the favourite conception,... | |
 | John Gideon Millingen - 1839 - 630 pages
...impossible enjoyments, and confers upon his pride unattainable dominion. The mind dances from scene to scene, unites all pleasures, in all combinations,...are rejected ; the mind, in weariness or leisure, returns constantly to the favourite conception, and feasts on the luscious falsehood whenever she is... | |
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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. 
