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
| Lawrence Lipking - 2009 - 396 Seiten
...at any cost, and that Rasselas also dreams about, reflects the enslaving violence of fiction itself: "By degrees the reign of fancy is confirmed; she grows first imperious, and in time despotick."15 Free will, and even basic decency, depend on throwing off those mind-forged chains. Like... | |
| Peter Louis Galison, Stephen Richards Graubard, Everett Mendelsohn - 260 Seiten
...sometimes predominate over his reason, . . . 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 passes in... | |
| Nicola Bown - 2001 - 264 Seiten
...not pronounced madness but when it becomes ungovernable, and apparently influences speech or action. 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 passes in... | |
| Keith Michael Baker, Peter Hanns Reill - 2001 - 220 Seiten
...will come 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 despotick. Then fictions begin to operate as realities, false opinions fasten upon the mind, and life... | |
| Sarah Jordan - 2003 - 308 Seiten
...delights which nature and fortune, with all their bounty, cannot bestow" 32 — but also to danger: "By degrees the reign of fancy is confirmed; she grows first imperious, and in time despotick. Then fictions begin to operate as realities, false opinions fasten upon the mind, and life... | |
| William F. Bynum, Roy Porter, Michael Shepherd - 2003 - 352 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 despotic. Then fictions begin to operate as realities, false opinions fasten upon the mind, and life passes in... | |
| Roy Porter - 2004 - 600 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 despotic. Then fictions begin to operate as realities, false opinions fasten upon the mind, and life passes in... | |
| S. H. Talcott - 2003 - 324 Seiten
...constantly to the favorite conception, and 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 rime despotic. Then fictions begin to operate as realities, false opinions fasten upon the mind, and... | |
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