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" DISORDERS of intellect,' answered Imlac, ' happen much more often than superficial observers will easily believe. Perhaps, if we speak with rigorous exactness, no human mind is in its right state. There is no man whose imagination does not sometimes predominate... "
Johnsoniana: Or, Supplement to Boswell: Being Anecdotes and Sayings of Dr ... - Page 388
edited by - 1842 - 529 pages
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The London Magazine, Or, Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer, Volume 28

1759 - 812 pages
...fomalimes predominate over hit reaion, wh« can regulate his attention wholly by hit will, and whofe ideas will come and go at his command. No man will be found in whofe nrind airy notions do not fomeiiroes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the. limits...
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The history of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia. The vision of Theodore. The ...

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 560 pages
...fometimes predominate over his reafon, •who can regulate his attention wholly b^ his will, and whofe ideas will come and go at his command. No man will be found in whofe mind airy notions do not fometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear feu beyond the limits...
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The history of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia. The vision of Theodore. The ...

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 534 pages
...fometimes predominate over his reafon, who can regulate his attention wholly by his will, and whofe ideas will come and go at his command. No man will be found in whofe mind airy notions do not fometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or ifear beyond the limits...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Tales and visions: The history of ...

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 546 pages
...fometimes predominate over his reafon, who can regulate his attention wholly by his will, and whofe ideas will come and go at his command. No man will be found in whofe mind airy notions do pot fometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear fear beyond the limits...
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The Prince of Abissinia: A Tale

Samuel Johnson - 1790 - 318 pages
...fometimes predominate over his reafon, who can regulate his attention wholly by his will, and whofe ideas will come and go at his command. No man will be found in whofe mind airy notions do not fome* times tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson.LL.D..: A dissertation upon the Greek comedy ...

Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 586 pages
...fometimes predominate over his reafon, who can regulate his attention wholly by his will, and whofe ideas will come and go at his command. No man will be found in whofe mind airy notions do not fometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits...
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A View of Nature, in Letters to a Traveller Among the Alps: With ..., Volume 6

Sir Richard Joseph Sullivan (bart.) - 1794 - 540 pages
...early as I383J4C, Lubec, in 1463 ; and at Dresden, in 1534. \ And are we not, at times, all visionary ? No man will be found, in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to roam beyond the limits of sober probability. He who once rejolvcs upon...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 462 pages
...fometimes predominate over his reafon, who can regulate his attention wholly by his will, and whofe ideas will come and go at his command. No man will be found in whofe mind airy notions do not fometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits...
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Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia

Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 162 pages
...IMAGINATION. "DISORDERS of intellect," answered Imlac, "happen much more often than superficial observers will easily believe. Perhaps, if we speak with rigorous...his attention wholly by his will, and whose ideas will.come and go at his command. No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannise,...
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The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Consisting of Maxims and Observations ...

Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pages
...passions stand ready to receive it. ' , ' ' Ibid. vol. 3, p. i, FOLLY. No man will be found in who^e mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannise, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability. Prince of Abyflima, p. 259. The folly which is adapted...
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