 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.  Solitude - Seite 280von Johann Georg Zimmermann - 1808 - 403 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Samuel Johnson - 1838 - 128 Seiten
...apparently influences speech or action. " To indulge the power of fiction, and send imagination ^ut upon the wing, is often the sport of those who delight...inquiry will sometimes give way to idleness or satiety. He who has nothing external that can divert him, must find pleasure Ui his own thoughts, and must conceive... | |
 | 1838 - 272 Seiten
...purpose are the words of another writer of the highest authority : — To indulge the power of fiction, and send imagination out upon the wing, is often the...those who delight too much in silent speculation. He who has nothing external that can divert him, must find pleasure in bis o'wn thoughts, and must... | |
 | 1838 - 274 Seiten
...purpose are the words of another writer of the highest authority : — To indulge the power of fiction, and send imagination out upon the wing, is often the sport of those who delight loo much in silent speculation. He who has nothing external that can divert him, must find pleasure... | |
 | John Gideon Millingen - 1839 - 630 Seiten
...faculties has been admirably described by Johnson, in his Rasselas. " To indulge the power of fiction, and send imagination out upon the wing, is often the...those who delight too much in silent speculation. He who has nothing external that can divert him, must find pleasure in his own thoughts, and must conceive... | |
 | John Wilson Croker - 1842 - 544 Seiten
...becomes ungovernable, and apparently influences speech or action. " To indulge the power of fiction, and send imagination out upon the wing, is often the...inquiry will sometimes give way to idleness or satiety. He who has nothing external that can divert him, must find pleasure in his own thoughts, and must conceive... | |
 | John Wilson Croker - 1842 - 546 Seiten
...becomes ungovernable, and apparently influences speech or action. " To indulge the power of fiction, and send imagination out upon the wing, is often the...inquiry will sometimes give way to idleness or satiety. He who has nothing external that can divert him, must find pleasure in his own thoughts, and must conceive... | |
 | 1842 - 362 Seiten
...purpose are the words of another writer of the highest authority : — " To indulge the power of fiction, and send imagination out upon the wing, is often the...those who delight too much in silent speculation. He who has nothing external that can divert him must find pleasure in his own thoughts, and must conceive... | |
 | John Abercrombie - 1843 - 294 Seiten
...are the words of another writer of the highest authority : — " To • indulge the power of fiction, and send imagination out upon the wing, is often the...those who delight too much in silent speculation. He who has nothing external that can divert him must find pleasure in his own thoughts, and must conceive... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1846 - 194 Seiten
...becomes ungovernable, and apparently influences speech or action. "To indulge the power of fiction, and send imagination out upon the wing, is often the...inquiry will sometimes give way to idleness or satiety. He who has nothing external that can divert him, must find pleasure in his own thoughts, and must conceive... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1846 - 416 Seiten
...becomes ungovernable , and apparently influences speech or action. « To indulge the pover of fiction , and send imagination out upon the wing, is often the...to last long ; the ardour of inquiry will sometimes gives way to idleness or satiety. He who has nothing external that can divert him, must find pleasure... | |
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