 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 548 pages
...futurity, and culls from all imaginable conditions that which for the present moment he should most desire, amuses his desires with impossible enjoyments,...other intellectual gratifications are rejected ; the mind, in weariness or leisure, recurs constantly to the favourite conception, and feasts on the luscious... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 508 pages
...futurity, and culls, from all imaginable conditions, that which, for the present moment, he should most desire ; amuses his desires with impossible enjoyments,...other intellectual gratifications are rejected ; the mind, in weariness or leisure, recurs constantly to the favourite conception, and feasts on the luscious... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 728 pages
...futurity, and culls from all imaginable conditions that which for the present moment he should most desire, amuses his desires with impossible enjoyments,...other intellectual gratifications are rejected, the mind, in weariness or leisure, recurs constantly to the favourite conception, and feasts on the luscious... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 750 pages
...imaginable conditions that which for the present moment he should most desire, amuses his desire« hold it impossible that an action of months or...till he whom they saw courting his mistress, shall mind, in weariness or leisure, recurs constantly to the favourite conception, and feasts on the luscious... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 514 pages
...futurity, and culls, from all imaginable conditions, that which, for the present moment, he should most desire ; amuses his desires with impossible enjoyments,...and fortune, with all their bounty, cannot bestow. " lu time, some particular train of ideas fixes the attention ; all other intellectual gratifications... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 pages
...futurity, and culls, from all imaginable conditions, that which, for the present moment, he should most desire ; amuses his desires with impossible enjoyments,...pleasures in all combinations, and riots in delights, w_hjcb. »ature and fortune, with all 1 heir liomil y, (Mimul bestow, " In time, some particular train... | |
 | Johann Georg Zimmermann - 1830 - 416 pages
...futurity, and culls from all imaginable conditions that which for the present moment he should most desire, amuses his desires with impossible enjoyments,...mind dances from scene to scene, unites all pleasures ill all combinations, riots in delights which nature and fortune, with all their bounty, cannot bestow.... | |
 | John Abercrombie - 1832 - 392 pages
...futurity, and culls from all imaginable conditions that which for the present moment he should most desire ; amuses his desires with impossible enjoyments,...dances from scene to scene, unites all pleasures in all combina* Pouter's Essays. tions, and riots in delights which nature and fortune, with all theifcbounty,... | |
 | John Abercrombie - 1833 - 370 pages
...dominion. The mind dances from scene to scene, unites all pleasures in all combina* Tostert Essays. tions, and riots in delights which nature and fortune, with...other intellectual gratifications are rejected ; the mind, in weariness or leisure, recurs constantly to the favourite conception, and feasts on the luscious... | |
 | John Abercrombie - 1834 - 388 pages
...futurity, and culls from all imaginable conditions that which for the present moment he should most desire ; amuses his desires with impossible enjoyments,...dances from scene to scene, unites all pleasures in all combina* Foster's Enayt. 'tions, and riots in delights which nature and fortune, with all their bounty,... | |
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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. 
