 | Bayard Tuckerman - English fiction - 1882 - 360 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... | |
 | Bayard Tuckerman - English fiction - 1882 - 356 pages
...which for the present moment he should most desire, amuses his desires with impossible en^ joyments, and confers upon his pride unattainable dominion....particular train of ideas fixes the attention ; all other intellectual gratifications are rejected ; the mind, in weariness or leisure, recurs constantly to... | |
 | Henry Kiddle, Alexander Jacob Schem - Education - 1882 - 376 pages
...unfitting for every sphere o: useful employment. Johnson, in Rasselas, well describes this menta condition: "The mind dances from scene to scene, unites all pleasures...their bounty, cannot bestow. In time, some particular trail of ideas fixes the attention; all other intellectual gratifications are re jected; the mind,... | |
 | William Beckford - Fiction - 1883 - 446 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... | |
 | William Beckford - 1883 - 454 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 - 1883 - 168 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 bounty can bestow. ' In time, some particular train of ideas fixes the attention, all other intellectual gratifications... | |
 | Henry Kiddle, Alexander Jacob Schem - Education - 1883 - 934 pages
...for every sphere of useful employment. Johnson, in Runsell ts well describes this mental condition : "The mind dances from scene to scene, unites all pleasures...particular train of ideas fixes the attention ; all other in tel lei 't1 ual gratifications are rejected ; the mind, in j weariness or leisure, recurs constantly... | |
 | Henry Kiddle, Alexander Jacob Schem - Education - 1883 - 984 pages
...for every j sphere of useful employment. Johnson, in Rassel'is 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Fiction - 1887 - 216 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...some particular train of ideas fixes the attention ; 30 all other intellectual gratifications are rejected ; the mind, in weariness or leisure, recurs... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English fiction - 1891 - 286 pages
...in boundless futurity, and culls from all imaginable conditions that which for the present moment 5 he should most desire, amuses his desires with impossible enjoyments, and confers upon hia pride unattainable dominion. The mind dances from scene to scene, unites all pleasures in all combinations,... | |
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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. 
