 | Samuel Johnson - 1759 - 184 pages
...places, that the iilufions of one are not diftinguifheJ from the dictates of the ether. If fancy prefents images not moral or religious, the mind drives them...melancholick notions take the form of .duty, they lay hoU on the faculties without oppofuion, becaufe we are afraid to exclude or banifh them. For this reafon... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 560 pages
...importance, how dreadful is my crime!" " No difeafe of the imagination, anfwered Imlac, is fo difficult of cure, as that which is complicated •with the dread of guilt: fancy and confcience then act interchangeably upon us, and fo often fhift their places, that the iilunons of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 546 pages
...importance, how dreadful is my crime!" " No difeafe of the imagination, anfwered Imlac, is fo difficult of cure, as that which is complicated with the dread of guilt: fancy and confcience then act interchangeably upon us, and fo often fhift their places, that (he illufions of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 534 pages
...importance, how dreadful is my crime!" " No difeafe of the imagination, anfwered Imlac, is fo difficult of cure, as that which" is complicated with the dread of guilt; fancy and confcience then ' act interchangeably upon us, and fo often fhift their places, that the illufions... | |
 | 1788 - 778 pages
...dreadful is my crime !* 1 No «lifeafe of the imagination,' anfwered Imlac, ' is fo difficult of cure, 4 as that which is complicated with the • dread of guilt : fancy and confcience 4 then afl interchangeably upon us, and 4 fo often mift their places, that the ¡14 lufionsofonearenotdiitin... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 586 pages
...importance, how dreadful is my crime !" " No difeafe of the imagination, anfwered Imlac, is fo difficult of cure, as that which is complicated with the dread of guilt : fancy and confcience then act interchangeably upon us, and fo often fhift their places, that the illufions of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 162 pages
...importance, how dreadful is my crime!" "No disease of the imagination," answered 1mlac, "is so difficult of cure, as that which is com*plicated with the dread...presents' images not moral or religious, the mind drives thenvaway when they give it pain; but when melancholic notions take the form of duty, they lay hold... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 376 pages
...importance, how dreadful is my crime!" " No disease of the imagination," answered Imlac, " is so difficult of cure, as that which is complicated with the dread...presents images not moral or religious, the mind drives VoL.IIJ. Hfc them away when they give it pain, but when melancholick notions take the form of duty,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 210 pages
...importance, how dreadful is my crime!" , " No disease of the imagination," answered Imlac, " is so difficult of cure, as that which is complicated with the dread...so often shift their places, that the illusions of the one are not distinguished from the dictates of the other. If fancy presents images not moral or... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 230 pages
...importance, how dreadful is my crime !" " No disease of the imagination, ansv/ered Imlac, is so difficult of cure, as that which is complicated with the dread of guilt : fancy and conscience then aC\ interchangeably upon us, and so often shift their places, that the illusions of one are not distinguished... | |
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No disease of the imagination,' answered Imlac, 'is so difficult of cure as that which is complicated with the dread of guilt: fancy and conscience then act interchangeably upon us, and so often shift their places that the illusions of one are not distinguished... 
