 | Samuel Johnson - Biography - 1801 - 462 pages
...conditions that which for the prefent moment he mould moft defire, amufes his defires with impofiible enjoyments, and confers upon his pride unattainable dominion. The mind dances from fcene to fcene, unites all pleafures in all combinations, and riots in delights, which nature and fortune,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 162 pages
...fu^ turiky., and culls from all imaginable conditions that which for the present moment he shouldmost desire, amuses his desires with impossible enjoyments,...particular train of ideas fixes the attention, all other intellectual Gratifications are rejected, the mind,in weariness or leisure,recurs constantly to the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 376 pages
...expatiates in boundless futurity, and culls from all imaginable conditions that which for the present moment he should most desire, amuses his desires with impossible...bestow. " In time, some particular train of ideas fixe* the attention, all other intellectual gratifications are rejected, the mind, in weariness or... | |
 | Johann Georg Zimmermann - Loneliness - 1808 - 430 pages
...expatiates iu boundless futurity, and culls from all imaginable conditions that which for the present moment he should most desire, amuses his desires with impossible...to scene, unites all pleasures in all combinations, riots in delights which nature and fortune, with all their bounty, cannot bestow. In tiine some particular... | |
 | Nathan Drake - Adventurer - 1809 - 520 pages
...expatiates in boundless futurity, and culls from all imaginable conditions that which for the present moment he should most desire, amuses his desires with impossible...particular train of ideas fixes the attention; all other intellectual gratifications are rejected ; the mind, in weariness or leisure, recurs constantly to... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1809 - 530 pages
...expatiates in boundless futurity, and culls from all imaginable conditions that which for the present moment he should most desire, amuses his desires with impossible...particular train of ideas fixes the attention; all other intellectual gratifications are rejected ; th.e mind, in weariness or leisure, recurs constantly to... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Historical fiction - 1809 - 210 pages
...expatiates in boundless futurity, and culls from all imaginable conditions that which for the present moment he should most desire, amuses his desires with impossible...delights which nature and fortune, with all their beauty, cannot bestow. " In time some particular train of ideas fixes the attention, all other intellectual... | |
 | Nathan Drake - Adventurer - 1809 - 524 pages
...boundless futurity, and culls from all imaginable conditions that which for the present moment h« should most desire, amuses his desires with impossible...dances from scene to scene, unites all pleasures in alt combinations, and riots in delights which nature and fortune, with all their bounty, cannot bestow.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Ethiopia - 1810 - 230 pages
...expatiates in boundless futurity, and culls from all imaginable conditions that which for the present moment he should most desire, amuses his desires with impossible...nature and fortune, with all their bounty, cannot bestov/. " In time, some particular train of ideas fixes the attention, all other intellectual gratifications... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Francis William Blagdon - English fiction - 1811 - 250 pages
...expiates in boundless futurity, and culls from all imaginable conditions that which for the present moment he should most desire, amuses his desires with impossible...particular train of ideas fixes the attention, all other intellectual gratifications are rejected, the mind, in weariness or leisure, recurs constantly to the... | |
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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. 
