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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... "
Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia - Página 115
por Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 135 páginas
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 376 páginas
...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...
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Solitude

Johann Georg Zimmermann - 1808 - 430 páginas
...to the favourite conception, and feasts on the Inscious falsehood whenever she is offended with the bitterness of truth. By degrees the reign of fancy...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."...
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Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical: Illustrative of ..., Volumen1

Nathan Drake - 1809 - 524 páginas
...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...
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Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical Illustrative of the ..., Volumen1

Nathan Drake - 1809 - 520 páginas
...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...
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Essays: Biographical, Critical, and Historical; Illustrative of ..., Volumen1

Nathan Drake - 1809 - 530 páginas
...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...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and ..., Volumen3

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 458 páginas
...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, fulse opinions fasten E F. 4 upon upon the...
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Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia: A Tale

Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 194 páginas
...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...astronomer's misery has proved to be not always propitious t<i wisdom." " I will no more," said the favourite, " imag'itic myself the queen of Abissinia. I have...
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The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia

Samuel Johnson, Francis William Blagdon - 1811 - 250 páginas
...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...
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Works, Volumen3

Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 428 páginas
...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...
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The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia: A Tale

Samuel Johnson - 1815 - 272 páginas
...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...and life passes in dreams of rapture or of anguish. tc This, Sir, is one of the dangers of solitude, which the Hermit has confessed not always to promote...
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