 | 1841 - 908 trang
...literature, in one of his most interesting productions, that I hope to be excused for quoting his words. " To indulge the power of fiction and send imagination out upon the wing, is often the delight of those who delight too much in silent speculation. He who has nothing external that can divert... | |
 | John Wilson Croker - 1842 - 544 trang
...pronounced madness but when it becomes ungovernable, and apparently influences speech or action. " To indulge the power of fiction, and send imagination...those who delight too much in silent speculation. When we are alone we are not always busy; the labour of excogitation is too violent to last long; the... | |
 | John Wilson Croker - 1842 - 546 trang
...pronounced madness but when it becomes ungovernable, and apparently influences speech or action. " To indulge the power of fiction, and send imagination...those who delight too much in silent speculation. When we are alone we are not always busy; the labour of excogitation is too violent to last long; the... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1862 - 604 trang
...Imlac. (Husseins, chap. 49.) Fancy and Pride reign together where Truth does not preside. " He who las nothing external that can divert him, must find pleasure...thoughts and must conceive himself what he is not ; fur who is pleased with ichtit he is ? He then expatiates in boundless futurity, and culls from all... | |
 | John Abercrombie - 1846 - 300 trang
...Essays. Srtate of mind Induced by a perverted imagination? Foster's description of 111 •fleets :' To the same purpose are the words of another writer...own thoughts, and must conceive himself what he is not,—for who is pleased with what he is? He then expatiates in boundless futurity, and culls from... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1846 - 194 trang
...not pronounced madness but when it becomes ungovernable, and apparently influences speech or action. "To indulge the power of fiction, and send imagination...those who delight too much in silent speculation. When we are alone we are not always busy; the labour of excogitation is too violent to last long; the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1846 - 416 trang
...when it becomes ungovernable , and apparently influences speech or action. « To indulge the pover of fiction , and send imagination out upon the wing,...those who delight too much in silent speculation. When we are alone, we are not always busy; the labour of excogitation is too violent to last long ;... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1856 - 118 trang
...iioJLpro^ounced'lh'adiiess^lJLit wnefl 1t*4jUi.'»iimij"Tffl^overnable) and apparentlyjnfiuenc^ss ' ''lU raflUlge""nie power of fiction, and send imagination out upon the...those who delight too much in silent speculation. When we are alone we are not always busy; the labor of excogitation is too violent to last longi the... | |
 | John Abercrombie - 1859 - 302 trang
...Foster's Essays. State of mind induced by a perverted imagination? Foster's description of lit effects 1 To the same purpose are the words of another writer...own thoughts, and must conceive himself what he is not,—for who is pleased with what he is ? He then expatiates in boundless futurity, and culls from... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1860 - 250 trang
...apparently influences speech or action. " To indulge the power of fiction, and send imagination 345 out upon the wing, is often the sport of those who delight too much in silent speculation. When we are alone we are not always busy; the labour of excogitation is too violent to last long ;... | |
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To indulge the power of fiction, and send imagination out upon the wing, is often the sport of those who delight too much in silent speculation. 
