 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...  Solitude - Page 74de Johann Georg Zimmermann - 1836Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Samuel Johnson - 1759 - 184 pages
...unattainable dominion. The mind dances from fcene to fcene, unites all pleafures in all combinations, and riots in delights which nature and fortune, with all their bounty cannot beftow. " In time fome particular train of ideas fixes the attention, all other intelleftual gratifications... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1783 - 324 pages
...riots in delights, which nature and fortune, with all their bounty, cannot bellow. ** In time, fome particular train of ideas fixes the attention, all...intellectual gratifications are rejected, the mind, in wearinefs or leifure, recurs conftantly to the favourite conception, and feafts on the lufcious falfehood,whenever... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 534 pages
...riors in delights, which nature and fortune, with all their bounty, cannot beftow. " In time, fome particular train of ideas fixes the attention, all...intellectual gratifications are rejected, the mind, in wearinefs or leifure, recurs conftantly to the favourite conception, and feafts on the lufcious falfehood,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 546 pages
...unattainable dominion. The mind dances from fcene to icene, unites all pleafures in all combinations, and riots in delights, which nature and fortune, with all their bounty, cannot beftow. " In time, fome particular train of ideas fixes the attention, all other intellectual gratifications... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 560 pages
...unattainable dominion. The mind dances from fcene to fcene, unites all pleafures in all combinations, and riots in delights, which nature and fortune, with all their bounty, cannot beftow. " In time, fome particular train of ideas fixes the attention, all other intellectual gratifications... | |
 | 1788 - 778 pages
...' dominion. The mind dances from ' fcene tolcene, unites all pleafiires in all ' combinations, and riots in delights, ' which nature and fortune, with all ' their bounty, cannot bellow. ' In time, fnme particular train of ' ideas fixes the attention, all other in• telUch;al... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1790 - 318 pages
...unattainable dominion. The mind dances from fcene to fcene, unites all pleafures in all combinations, and riots in delights, which nature and fortune, with all their bounty, cannot beftow. " In time, fome particular train of ideas fixes the attention ; all other intellectual gratifications... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 586 pages
...unattainable dominion. The mind dances from fcene to fcene, unites all pleafures in all combinations, and riots in delights, which nature and fortune, with all their bounty, cannot beftow. " In time, fome particular train of ideas fixes the attention, all other intellectual gratifications... | |
 | Johann Georg Zimmermann - 1799 - 390 pages
...combinations, riots in delights which nature and fortune, with all their bounty, cannot beftow. In time fome particular train of ideas fixes the attention; all...intellectual gratifications are rejected ; the mind, in wearinefs or leifure, recurs conftantly to the favourite conception, and feafts on the lufcious falfehood,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 462 pages
...unattainable dominion. The mind dances from fcene to fcene, unites all pleafures in all combinations, and riots in delights, which nature and fortune, with all their bounty, cannot beftow. " In time,f'ome particular train of ideas fixes the attention, all other intellectual gratifications... | |
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