 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 Imperial Magazine, Or, Compendium of Religious, Moral, & Philosophical ... - Página 7451822Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Samuel Johnson - 1846 - 416 páginas
...enchaînement particulier d'idées, et rejette toute autre jouissance intellectuelle : dans la lassitude comme recurs constantly to the favourite conception, and...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 - 1846 - 194 páginas
...cannot bestow. "In time, some particular train of ideas fixes the attention: all other intellectual gratifications are rejected; the mind, in weariness...favourite conception , and feasts on the luscious falshood, whenever she is offended with the bitterness of truth. By degrees the reign of fancy is confirmed;... | |
 | John Gideon Millingen - 1848 - 496 páginas
...attention; all other intellectual gratifications are rejected ; the mind, in weariness or leisure, returns constantly to the favourite conception, and feasts...; she grows first imperious, and in time despotic. Thus fictions begin to operate as realities — false opinions fasten upon the mind — and life passes... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1851 - 228 páginas
...cannot bestow. " 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 favorite conception, and feasts on the luscious falsehood, whenever she is offended with the bitterness... | |
 | 1852 - 596 páginas
...can not bestow. 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 favorite conception, and feasts in the luscious falsehood, whenever she is offended with the bitterness... | |
 | John Abercrombie - 1853 - 300 páginas
...cannot bestow. 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 favorite conception, and feasts on the luscious falsehood whenever she is offended with the bitterness... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1853 - 588 páginas
...proceeds : — "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 favorite conception, and feasts on the luscious falsehood whenever she is offended with the bitterness... | |
 | 1854 - 652 páginas
...his companions : " In time some particular train of ideas fixes the attention; all other intellectual gratifications are rejected; the mind, in weariness...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... | |
 | George Peck - 1854 - 312 páginas
...fixes the attention ; all other intellectual gratifications are rejected ; the mind, in weariness of leisure, recurs constantly to the favourite conception,...; 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... | |
 | Francis Wharton - 1855 - 252 páginas
...gratifications are rejected ; the mind, in weariness or leisure, returns constantly to the favorite conception, and feasts on the luscious falsehood whenever...; she grows first imperious, and in time despotic. Then fictions begin to operate as realities — false opinions fasten upon the mind — and life passes... | |
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