 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
 | 1854 - عدد الصفحات: 652
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 180
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 340
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 670
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 258
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 260
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 268
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 550
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 276
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 294
...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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