 | 1838 - 544 pages
...The mind dances from scene to scene, unites all pleasures in all combinations, and riots in delight which nature and fortune, with all their bounty, cannot...particular train of ideas fixes the attention ; all other intellectual gratifications are rejected; the mind, in weariness or leisure, recurs constantly to the... | |
 | John Gideon Millingen - Abnormalities, Human - 1839 - 630 pages
...boundless futurity, and culls from all imaginary conditions that which for the present moment he would most 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, returns constantly to... | |
 | Boys - 1842 - 362 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 the... | |
 | John Wilson Croker - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1842 - 546 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...fortune, with all their bounty, cannot bestow. " In lime, some particular train of ideas fixes the attention; all other intellectual gratifications are... | |
 | John Wilson Croker - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1842 - 544 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...dances from scene to scene, unites all pleasures in a-11 combinations, and riots in delights which nature and fortune, with all their bounty, cannot bestow.... | |
 | John Abercrombie - Medicine - 1843 - 294 pages
...boundless futurity, and culls from all imaginable conditions that which for the present moment heshould most 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... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1862 - 604 pages
...in boundless futurity, and culls from all imaginable conditions that which, for the present moment, he should most desire, amuses his desires with impossible...confers upon his pride unattainable dominion.'''' Kindness triumphs over pride and madness by sympathetically exciting its own spirit, not by constraint,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1846 - 416 pages
...expatiates in boundless futurity, and calls 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 dejected; the mind, in weariness or leisure, cultés mentales. Il n'est... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1846 - 194 pages
...boundless futurity, and culls from all imaginable conditions that which for the present moment he schould most 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... | |
 | John Gideon Millingen - Emotions - 1848 - 496 pages
...boundless futurity, and culls from all imaginary conditions, that which for the present moment he would most desire ; amuses his desires with impossible enjoyments, and confers upon his pride unattainable dominions. The mind dances from scene to scene, unites all pleasures in all combinations, and riots... | |
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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. 
