 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 Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D. - Página 339por Samuel Johnson - 1806Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | 1854 - 652 páginas
...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 imperious, and in time despotic. Then fictions begin to operate as realities, false opinions fasten upon the mind, and life... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1886 - 180 páginas
...truth. By degrees the reign of fancy is confirmed ; she grows first imperious, and in time despotic. Then fictions begin to operate as realities, false...hermit has confessed not always to promote goodness, and"j the astronomer's misery has proved to be not always propitious to wisdom." ""I will no more,"... | |
 | Henry C. Sheppard - 1919 - 340 páginas
...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 imperious and in time despotic. Then fictions begin to operate as realities, false opinions fasten upon the mind, and life... | |
 | Cyril Burt - 1925 - 670 páginas
...daydreamers. Hour after hour they moon, unoccupied and idle, making castles in the air. "By degrees the reign of fancy is confirmed ; she grows first imperious and in time despotic. Soon fictions begin to operate as facts; false opinions fasten on the mind, and what the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1927 - 258 páginas
...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...always to promote goodness, and the astronomer's misery fets proved to be not always propitious to wisdom." " I will no more, said the favourite, imagine myself... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1927 - 260 páginas
...whenever she is offended with the bitterness of truth. By degrees the reign of jfancy_is__cpnfirmed ; she grows first imperious, and in time despotick....anguish/) " This, Sir, is one of the dangers of solitude, I which the hermit has confessed not always to/ promote goodness, and the astronomer's misery ' has... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1927 - 268 páginas
...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...and life passes in dreams of rapture or of anguish. " ThiSj_SirJJs_one of jthe dangers of jolitudej which the hermit has confessed not always to promote... | |
 | 1907 - 550 páginas
...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 imperious, and in time despotic. Then fictions begin to operate as realities, false opinions fasten upon the mind, and life... | |
 | Leopold Damrosch - 1989 - 276 páginas
...and go at his command. . . . All power of fancy over reason is a degree of insanity. ... By degrees the reign of fancy is confirmed; she grows first imperious, and in time despotic. Then fictions begin to operate as realities, false opinions fasten upon the mind, and life... | |
 | Terry Castle Professor of English Stanford University - 1995 - 294 páginas
...that once the mind "riots in delights which nature and fortune, with all their bounty, cannot bestow," the reign of fancy is confirmed: "she grows first imperious, and in time despotic. Then fictions begin to operate as realities, false opinions fasten upon the mind, and life... | |
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