 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...  Victoria Magazine - Seite 5671868Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Samuel Johnson, Francis William Blagdon - 1811 - 250 Seiten
...constantly to the favourite conception, and feasts on the luscious falsehood, whenever she is offended with the bitterness of truth. By degrees the reign of fancy...confirmed : she grows first imperious, and in time despotick. Then fictions begin to operate as realities, false opinions fasten upon the mind, and life... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 250 Seiten
...constantly to the favourite conception, and feasts on the luscious falsehood, whenever she is offended with the bitterness of truth. By degrees the reign of fancy...; 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 - 1816 - 484 Seiten
...constantly to the favourite conception, and feasts on the luscious falsehood, whenever she is offended with the bitterness of truth. By degrees the reign of fancy...confirmed ; she grows first imperious, and in time despotick. Then fictions begin to operate as realities, false opinions fasten upon the mind, and life... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1817 - 194 Seiten
...constantly to the favourite conception, and feasts on the luscious falsehood, whenever she is offended with the bitterness of truth. By degrees the reign of fancy...; she grows first imperious, and in time despotic : Then fictions begin to operate as realities, false opinions fasten upon the mind, and life passes... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 420 Seiten
...constantly to the favourite conception, and feasts on the luscious falsehood, whenever she is offended with the bitterness of truth. By degrees the reign of fancy...confirmed ; she grows first imperious, and in time despotick. Then fictions begin to operate as realities, false opinions fasten upon the mind, and life... | |
 | Johann Georg Zimmermann - 1819 - 410 Seiten
...feasts on the luscious falsehood whenever she is offended with the bitterness of truth. By degrces the reign of fancy is confirmed ; she grows first imperious, and in time despotic : then fictions begin to operate as realities, false opinions fasten on the mind, and life passes in... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 456 Seiten
...constantly to the favourite conception, and feasts on the luscious falsehood, whenever she is offended with the bitterness of truth. By degrees the reign of fancy...; 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 - 1820 - 462 Seiten
...constantly to the favourite conception, and feasts on the luscious falsehood, whenever she is offended with the bitterness of truth. By degrees the reign of fancy...; 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 - 1820 - 278 Seiten
...constantly to the favourite conception, and feasts on the luscious falsehood, whenever she is offended with the bitterness of truth. By degrees the reign of fancy...: she grows first imperious, and in time despotic. Then fictions begin to operate as realities, false opinions fasten upon the L3 mind, and life passes... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 466 Seiten
...constantly to the favourite conception, and feasts on the luscious falsehood, whenever she is offended with the bitterness of truth. By degrees the reign of fancy...; 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... | |
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