 | Samuel Johnson - Ethiopia - 1759 - 184 pages
...enjoyments, and confers upon his pride unattainable dominion. The mind dances from fcene to fcene, unites all pleafures in all combinations, and riots...particular train of ideas fixes the attention, all other intelleftual gratifications are rejeded, the mind, in wearinefs or leifure, recurs conftantly to the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1783 - 324 pages
...enjoyments, and confers upon his pride unattainable dominion. The mind dances from fcene to fcene, unites all pleafures in all combinations, and riots...nature and fortune, with all their bounty, cannot bellow. ** In time, fome particular train of ideas fixes the attention, all other intellectual gratifications... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 534 pages
...dominion. The mind dances from fcene to fcene, unites all pleafures in all combinations, and riors in delights, which nature and fortune, with all their...the favourite conception, and feafts on the lufcious falfehood, whenever fhe is offended. with the bitternefs of truth. By degrees the reign of fancy is... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 560 pages
...enjoyments, and confers upon his pride unattainable dominion. The mind dances from fcene to fcene, unites all pleafures in all combinations, and riots...attention, all other intellectual gratifications are rejefted, the mind, in wearinefs or leifure, recurs conftantly to ^he favourite conception, and feafts... | |
 | English fiction - 1788 - 778 pages
...upon his priJe unattainable ' dominion. The mind dances from ' fcene tolcene, unites all pleafiires in all ' combinations, and riots in delights, ' which...nature and fortune, with all ' their bounty, cannot bellow. ' In time, fnme particular train of ' ideas fixes the attention, all other in• telUch;al... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Ethiopia - 1790 - 318 pages
...enjoyments, and confers upon his pride unattainable dominion. The mind dances from fcene to fcene, unites all pleafures in all combinations, and riots...all other intellectual gratifications are rejected ; themind, in wearinefs or leifure, recurs conftantly to the favourite conception, and feafts on the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 586 pages
...enjoyments, and confers upon his pride unattainable dominion. The mind dances from fcene to fcene, unites all pleafures in all combinations, and riots...the attention, all other intellectual gratifications arc rejected, the mind, in wearinefs or leifure, recurs conftantly to the favourite conception, and... | |
 | Johann Georg Zimmermann - Solitude - 1799 - 390 pages
...unattainable dominion. The mind dances from fcene to fcene, unites all pleafures in all combinations, riots in delights which nature and fortune, with all...the favourite conception, and feafts on the lufcious falfehood, whenever fhe is offended with the bitternefs of truth. By degrees the reign of fancy is... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 458 pages
...enjoyments, and confers upon his pride unattainable dominion. The mind dances from fcene to fcenc, unites all pleafures in all combinations, and riots...with all their bounty, cannot beftow. . " In time, tome particular train of ideas fixes the attention, all other intellectual gratifications are rejected,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Biography - 1801 - 462 pages
...enjoyments, and confers upon his pride unattainable dominion. The mind dances from fcene to fcene, unites all pleafures in all combinations, and riots...fortune, with all their bounty, cannot beftow. " In time,f'ome particular train of ideas fixes the attention, all other intellectual gratifications are... | |
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The mind dances from scene to scene, unites all pleasures in all combinations, and riots in delights which nature and fortune, with all their bounty cannot bestow. 
