 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 162 pagina’s
...to the favourite conception, and feasts on the luscious falsehood whenever she is offended with th& bitterness of truth. By degrees the reign of fancy...and life passes in dreams of rapture or of anguish. "This, Sir, is one of the dangers of solitude, which the hermit has confessed not always to promote... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 376 pagina’s
...truth. By degree* the reign of fancy is confirmed ; she grows first imperious, and in time despotick. Then fictions begin to operate as realities, false...and life passes in dreams of rapture or of anguish. " This, Sir, is one of the dangers of solitude, which the hermit has confessed not always to promote... | |
 | Johann Georg Zimmermann - 1808 - 430 pagina’s
...imperious, and in time despotic : then fictions begin to operate as realities, false opinions fasten on the mind, and life passes in dreams of rapture or of anguish. This is one of the dangers of Solitude." These observations bring us to consider the character of the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 210 pagina’s
...pleasures in all combinations, and riots in delights which nature and fortune, with all their beauty, cannot bestow. " In time some particular train of...and life passes in dreams of rapture or of anguish. " This, Sir, is one of the dangers of solitude, which the hermit has confessed not always to promote... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1809 - 524 pagina’s
...truth. By degrees the reign of Fancy is confirmed ; she grows first imperious, and in time despotick. Then fictions begin to operate as realities, false...and life passes in dreams of rapture or of anguish. ••• . . " This, Sir, is; one of the dangers of solitude."* In the paragraphs which we have just... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1809 - 530 pagina’s
...truth. By degrees the reign of Fancy is confirmed ; she grows first imperious, and in time despotick. Then fictions begin to operate as realities, false...and life passes in dreams of rapture or of anguish. " This, Sir, is one of the dangers of solitude." * In the paragraphs which we have just quoted there... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1809 - 520 pagina’s
...truth. By degrees the reign of Fancy is confirmed ; she grows first imperious, and in time despotick. Then fictions begin to operate as realities, false opinions fasten upon the mind, and life passes iii dreams of rapture or of anguish. " This, Sir, is one of the dangers of solitude."* In the paragraphs... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 230 pagina’s
...gratifications are rejected ; the mind, in weariness or leisure, recurs constantly to the favorite conception, and feasts on the luscious falsehood,...and life passes in dreams of rapture or of anguish. " This, sir, is one of the dangers of solitude, which the hermit has confessed not always to promote... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 458 pagina’s
...and in time despotick. Then fictions begin to operate as realities, fulse opinions fasten E F. 4 upon upon the mind, and life passes in dreams of rapture or of anguish. " This, Sir, is one of the dangers of solitude, which the hermit has confessed not always to promote... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 194 pagina’s
...pleasures in all combinations, and riots in delights which nature and fortune, with all their bounty, cannot bestow. " In time, some particular train of...and life passes in dreams of rapture or of anguish. " This, sir, is one of the dangers of solitude, which the hermit has confessed not always to promote... | |
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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... 
