 | Oliver Goldsmith - Conduct of life - 1857 - 452 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...pride unattainable dominion. The mind dances from scone to scene, unites all pleasures in all combinations, and riots in delights which nature and fortune,... | |
 | John Abercrombie - Mind and body - 1859 - 300 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1860 - 250 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...and fortune, with all their bounty, cannot bestow. 346 " In time some particular train of ideas fixes the attention ; all other intellectual gratifications... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, William Alexander Clouston - 1875 - 346 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1876 - 430 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...bounty, cannot bestow. "In time some particular train of ideaa fixes the attention ; all other intellectual gratifications are rejected ; the mind, in weariness... | |
 | Henry Kiddle, Alexander Jacob Schem - Education - 1876 - 900 pages
...unfitting for every sphere of useful employment. Johnson, in MaswA/s well describes this mental condition : "The mind dances from scene to scene, unites all pleasures in all combinations, and riota in delights which nature and fortune, with all their bounty, cannot bestow. In time, some particular... | |
 | Henry Lowndes - Health - 1877 - 72 pages
...created, we may have to face the real world of life with an impaired judgment and an irresolute will. " The mind dances from scene to scene, unites all pleasures...and fortune, with all their bounty, cannot bestow." " By degrees the reign of fancy is confirmed, she grows first imperious, and in time despotic. Then... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1879 - 510 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... | |
 | 618 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 time, Borne particular train of ideas fixes the attention ; all other intellectual gratifications are rejected;... | |
 | Henry Kiddle, Alexander Jacob Schem - Education - 1881 - 378 pages
...for every sphere of useful employment. Johnson, in Rasselas, well describes this mental condition: "The mind dances from scene to scene, unites all pleasures...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. 
