 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 Infirmities of Genius - Էջ 94Richard Robert Madden - 1833Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 162 էջ
...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 էջ
...and fortune, with all their bounty, cannot bestow. " In time, some particular train of ideas fixe* the 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... | |
 | Johann Georg Zimmermann - 1808 - 430 էջ
...nature and fortune, with all their bounty, cannot bestow. In tiine some particular train of ideas fixes the attention ; all other intellectual gratifications...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... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1809 - 524 էջ
...and fortune, with all their bounty, cannot bestow. " In time, some particular train of ideas fixes the attention; all other intellectual gratifications...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 - 520 էջ
...and fortune, with, all their bounty, cannot bestow. " In time, some particular train of ideas fixes the attention; all other intellectual gratifications...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 էջ
...and fortune, with all their bounty, cannot bestow. " In time, some particular train of ideas fixes the attention; all other intellectual gratifications...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 էջ
...and fortune, with all their bounty, cannot bestov/. " In time, some particular train of ideas fixes the attention, all other intellectual gratifications...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, Francis William Blagdon - 1811 - 250 էջ
...and fortune, with all their bounty, cannot bestow. " In time, some particular train of ideas fixes the attention, all other intellectual gratifications...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 - 1811 - 428 էջ
...fortune, with all their bounty, cannot bestow. .. •• " In time, some particular train of ideas fixes the attention, all other intellectual gratifications...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 - 1816 - 484 էջ
...and fortune, with all their bounty, cannot bestow. " In time, some particular train of ideas fixes the attention, all other intellectual gratifications...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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