 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 162 pages
...feasts on the luscious falsehood whenever she is offended with th& bitterness of truth. By degrees the reign of fancy is confirmed ; she grows first...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 376 pages
...feasts on the luscious falsehood, whenever she i» offended with the bitterness of truth. By degree* 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... | |
 | Johann Georg Zimmermann - 1808 - 430 pages
...feasts on the Inscious falsehood whenever she is offended with the bitterness of truth. By degrees the reign of fancy is confirmed ; she grows first...begin to operate as realities, false opinions fasten on the mind, and life passes in dreams of rapture or of anguish. This is one of the dangers of Solitude."... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 210 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1809 - 530 pages
...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 time despotick. Then fictions begin to operate as realities, false opinions fasten upon the mind, and life... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1809 - 524 pages
...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 time despotick. Then fictions begin to operate as realities, false opinions fasten upon the mind, and life... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1809 - 520 pages
...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 time despotick. Then fictions begin to operate as realities, false opinions fasten upon the mind, and life... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 230 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 458 pages
...and in time despotick. Then fictions begin to operate as realities, fulse opinions fasten E F. 4 upon upon the mind, 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 194 pages
...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 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... | |
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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... 
