 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...  Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia - Página 115por Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 135 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 460 páginas
...to the favourite conception, and feasts on the luscious falsehood, whenever she is offended with the bitterness of truth. By degrees the reign of fancy...anguish. " This, Sir, is one of the dangers of solitude." (1) In the paragraphs which we have just quoted, there is much reason to suppose, that Johnson was... | |
 | John Abercrombie - 1835 - 296 páginas
...feasts on the luscious falsehood whenever she is offended with the bitterness of truth. By degress the reign of fancy is confirmed ; she grows first...life passes in dreams of rapture or of anguish."* SECTION IV. OF REASON OR JUDGMENT. THE most simple view which we can take of reason probably is, that... | |
 | John Wilson Croker - 1836 - 656 páginas
...to the favourite conception, and feasts on the luscious falsehood, whenever she is offended with the bitterness of truth. By degrees the reign of fancy...anguish. " This, Sir, is one of the dangers of solitude." (i) In the paragraphs which we have just quoted, there is much reason to suppose, that Johnson was... | |
 | Johann Georg Zimmermann - 1836 - 202 páginas
...to the favorite conception, and feasts on the luscious falsehood whenever she is offended with the bitterness of truth. By degrees the reign of fancy Is confirmed ; she grows first p h imperious, and in time despotic : then fictions begin to operate as;realities, faUe opinions fasten... | |
 | 1838 - 544 páginas
...to the favourite conception, and feasts on the luscious falsehood whenever she is offended with the bitterness of truth. By degrees the reign of fancy...and life passes in dreams of rapture or of anguish. [ABKRCROMBIE on the Intellectual Power».] WHATKVKR God himself has pleased to think worthy of his... | |
 | 1838 - 274 páginas
...to the favourite conception, and feasts on the luseious falsehood whenever she is offended with the bitterness of truth. By degrees the reign of | fancy...and life passes in dreams of rapture or of anguish. [AuEBCnOMBiE on the Intellectual PouYrs.] WHATEVER God himself has pleased to think worthy of his making,... | |
 | John Abercrombie - 1838 - 298 páginas
...feasts on the luscious falsehood whenever she is offended with the bitterness of truth. By degress the reign of fancy is confirmed ; she grows first...life passes in dreams of rapture or of anguish."* SECTION IV. OF SEASON OR JUDGMENT. THE most simple view which we can take of reason probably is, that... | |
 | 1838 - 272 páginas
...to the favourite conception, and feasts on the luscious falsehood whenever she is offended with the bitterness of truth. By degrees the reign of fancy...despotic. Then fictions begin to operate as realities, fal&o opinions fasten upon the mind, and life passes in dreams of rapture or of anguish. [ADERCROMBIE... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1838 - 128 páginas
...to the favourite conception, and feasts on the luscious falsehood, whenever she is offended with the bitterness of truth. By degrees the reign of fancy...confirmed ; she grows first imperious, and in time despotick. Then fictions begin to operate as realities, false opinions fasten upon the mind, and life... | |
 | John Abercrombie - 1838 - 484 páginas
...feasts on the luscious falsehood whenever she is offended with the bitterness of truth. By decrees the reign of fancy is confirmed ; she grows first imperious, and in time despotic. Then fictions * Foster's Essays. begin to operate as realities, false opinions fasten upon the mind, and life passes... | |
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