In time, some particular train of ideas fixes the attention, all other intellectual gratifications are rejected, the mind, in weariness or leisure, recurs constantly to the favourite conception, and feasts on the luscious falsehood, whenever she is offended... The Imperial Magazine, Or, Compendium of Religious, Moral, & Philosophical ... - Page 7451822Full view - About this book
| Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 162 pages
...attention, all other intellectual Gratifications are rejected, the mind,in weariness or leisure,recurs constantly to the favourite conception, and feasts...the luscious falsehood whenever she is offended with th& bitterness of truth. By degrees the reign of fancy is confirmed ; she grows first imperious, and,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 376 pages
...attention, all other intellectual gratifications are rejected, the mind, in weariness or leisure, re. curs constantly to the favourite conception, and feasts on the luscious falsehood, whenever she i» offended with the bitterness of truth. By degree* the reign of fancy is confirmed ; she grows first... | |
| Johann Georg Zimmermann - 1808 - 430 pages
...cannot bestow. In tiine some particular train of ideas fixes the attention ; all other intellectual gratifications are rejected ; the mind, in weariness...constantly to the favourite conception, and feasts on the Inscious falsehood whenever she is offended with the bitterness of truth. By degrees the reign of fancy... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 210 pages
...cannot bestow. " In time some particular train of ideas fixes the attention, all other intellectual gratifications are rejected, the mind, in weariness...; she grows first imperious, and in time despotic. Then fictions begin to operate as realities, false opinions fasten upon the mind, and life passes in... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1809 - 520 pages
...cannot bestow. " In time, some particular train of ideas fixes the attention; all other intellectual gratifications are rejected ; the mind, in weariness...confirmed ; she grows first imperious, and in time despotick. Then fictions begin to operate as realities, false opinions fasten upon the mind, and life... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1809 - 524 pages
...cannot bestow. " In time, some particular train of ideas fixes the attention; all other intellectual gratifications are rejected ; the mind, in weariness...confirmed ; she grows first imperious, and in time despotick. Then fictions begin to operate as realities, false opinions fasten upon the mind, and life... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1809 - 530 pages
...cannot bestow. " In time, some particular train of ideas fixes the attention; all other intellectual gratifications are rejected ; th.e mind, in weariness...confirmed ; she grows first imperious, and in time despotick. Then fictions begin to operate as realities, false opinions fasten upon the mind, and life... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 230 pages
...cannot bestov/. " In time, some particular train of ideas fixes the attention, all other intellectual gratifications are rejected ; the mind, in weariness or leisure, recurs constantly to the favorite conception, and feasts on the luscious falsehood, whenever she is offended with the bitterness... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 194 pages
...cannot bestow. " In time, some particular train of ideas fixes the attention, all other intellectual gratifications are rejected; the mind, in weariness...confirmed; she grows first imperious, and in time despotic. Then fictions begin to operate as realities, false opinions fasten upon the mind, and life passes in... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 428 pages
...bestow. .. •• " In time, some particular train of ideas fixes the attention, all other intellectual gratifications are rejected, the mind, in weariness...confirmed : she grows first imperious, and in time despotick. Then fictions begin to operate as realities, false opinions fasten upon the mind; and life... | |
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