 | Samuel Johnson - 1860 - 250 trang
...combinations, and riots in delights, which nature and fortune, with all their bounty, cannot bestow. 346 " In time some particular train of ideas fixes the attention...and life passes in dreams of rapture or of anguish. " This, sir, is one of the dangers of solitude, which the hermit has confessed not always to promote... | |
 | Forbes Benignus Winslow - 1860 - 796 trang
...By degrees, the reign of fancy is confirmed. She grows first imperious, and in time despotic. These fictions begin to operate as realities, false opinions...life passes in dreams of rapture or of anguish."* THE PERCEPTIVE FACULTIES. — The perceptive powers are often the first to yield to the influence of... | |
 | Forbes Benignus Winslow - 1860 - 618 trang
...By degrees, the reign of fancy is confirmed. She grows first imperious, and in time despotic. These fictions begin to operate as realities, false opinions...the mind, and life passes in dreams of rapture or of anguish."3 THE PERCEPTIVE FACULTIES. — The perceptive powers are often the first to yield to the... | |
 | John Abercrombie - 1866 - 308 trang
...truth. By degress the reign of fancy is confirmed ; she grows first imperious, and in time des potic. Then fictions begin to operate as realities, false...life passes in dreams of rapture or of anguish."* -\ (p '£, f,f 'f SECTION IV. > ' ^ OF REASON OR JUDGMENT. THE most simple view which we can take of... | |
 | 1868 - 596 trang
...imperious, and in time despotic. These fictions begin to operate as realities, false opinions fasten on the mind, and life passes in dreams of rapture or of anguish. In Chapter XII., while considering the importance of the faculty of attention, Dr. Forbes Winslow depreciates... | |
 | 1870 - 496 trang
...pernicious effects of indulgence in revery, and shows how "by degrees the reign of fancy is confirmed; how she grows first imperious, and in time despotic. Then...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 - 388 trang
...bitterness of truth. By degrees the reign of fancy is confirmed; she grows first imperious, and in tune despotic. Then fictions begin to operate as realities,...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 - 346 trang
...leisure, recurs constantly to the favourite conception, and feasts on the luscious falsehood whenever it is offended with the bitterness of truth. By degrees...and life passes in dreams of rapture or of anguish. Many have no happier moments than those that they pass in solitude, abandoned to their own imagination,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1876 - 430 trang
...which nature and fortune, with all their bounty, cannot bestow. "In time some particular train of ideaa fixes the attention ; all other intellectual gratifications...and life passes in dreams of rapture or of anguish. " This, sir, is one of the dangers of solitude, which the hermit has confessed not always to promote... | |
 | Henry Kiddle, Alexander Jacob Schem - 1876 - 900 trang
...she is offended with the bitterness of truth. By degrees the reign of fancy is confirmed ; she grows imperious, and in time despotic. Then fictions begin...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.... | |
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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... 
