 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. - الصفحة 339بواسطة Samuel Johnson - 1806عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
 | 1870 - عدد الصفحات: 496
...how "by degrees the reign of fancy is confirmed; how she grows first imperious, and in time despotic. Then fictions begin to operate as realities, false...the mind, and life passes in dreams of rapture or anguish." Multitudes of writers of less note than Johnson, have asserted that the habit of reading... | |
 | John Abercrombie - 1872 - عدد الصفحات: 388
...truth. By degrees the reign of fancy is confirmed; she grows first imperious, and in tune despotic. Then fictions begin to operate as realities, false...fasten upon the mind, and life passes in dreams of raptiue or of anguish."* SECTION IV. OF REASON OR JUDGMENT. THE most simple view which we can take... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, William Alexander Clouston - 1875 - عدد الصفحات: 346
...and feasts on the luscious falsehood whenever it 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... | |
 | Henry Kiddle, Alexander Jacob Schem - 1876 - عدد الصفحات: 900
...bitterness of truth. By degrees the reign of fancy is confirmed ; she grows imperious, and in time despotic. Then fictions begin to operate as realities, false...and life passes in dreams of rapture or of anguish." (See IMAGINATION, CULTURE OF.) FINE ARTS, a term which has, of late, undergone considerable modification.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1876 - عدد الصفحات: 430
...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... | |
 | Henry Lowndes - 1877 - عدد الصفحات: 72
...and riots in delights which nature and fortune, with all their bounty, cannot bestow." " 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 - 1879 - عدد الصفحات: 510
...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... | |
 | Henry Kiddle, Alexander Jacob Schem - 1881 - عدد الصفحات: 378
...bitterness of truth. By degrees the reign of fancy is confirmed; she grows imperious, apd in time despotic. Then fictions begin to operate as realities, false...and life passes in dreams of rapture or of anguish". (See IMAGINATION, CCLTCRE OF!) FORM, one of the most important branches of object teaching, since,... | |
 | عدد الصفحات: 618
...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... | |
 | Bayard Tuckerman - 1882 - عدد الصفحات: 426
...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... | |
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