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... Victoria Magazine - Página 5671868Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 162 páginas
...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...she grows first imperious, and, in time, despotic. Then fictions begin to operate as realities, false opinions fasten upon the mind, and life passes in... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 376 páginas
...feasts on the luscious falsehood, whenever she i» offended with the bitterness of 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 opinions fasten upon the mind, and life... | |
| Johann Georg Zimmermann - 1808 - 430 páginas
...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...; she grows first imperious, and in time despotic : then fictions begin to operate as realities, false opinions fasten on the mind, and life passes in... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 210 páginas
...constantly 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...; she grows first imperious, and in time despotic. Then fictions begin to operate as realities, false opinions fasten upon the mind, and life passes in... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1809 - 524 páginas
...constantly 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... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1809 - 530 páginas
...constantly 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... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1809 - 520 páginas
...constantly 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... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 230 páginas
...constantly 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...; she grows first imperious, and in time despotic. Then fictions begin to operate as realities, false opinions fasten upon the mind, and life passes in... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 194 páginas
...constantly 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 despotic. Then fictions begin to operate as realities, false opinions fasten upon the mind, and life passes in... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 428 páginas
...constantly 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... | |
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