 | Samuel Johnson - History - 1831 - 124 pages
...to the favourite conception, and feasts on the luscious falsehood, whenever she is offended with the bitterness of truth. By degrees the reign of fancy...passes in dreams of rapture or of anguish. " This, s;r, is one of the dangers of solitude, which the hermit has confessed not always to promote goodness,... | |
 | John Abercrombie - Philosophy - 1832 - 349 pages
...to the favourite conception, and feasts on the luscious falsehood whenever she is offended with the bitterness of truth. By degrees the reign of fancy...life passes in dreams of rapture or of anguish."* SECTION IV. OF REASON OR JUDGMENT. THE most simple view which we can take of reason probably is, that... | |
![The young enthusiast in humble life [by J. Jolly]. With a biogr. intr. [by J ...](http://bks3.books.google.co.nz/books?id=uKwNAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&edge=curl "The young enthusiast in humble life [by J. Jolly]. With a biogr. intr. [by J ...") | James Jolly - 1833
...do not sometimes predominate, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability. By degrees the reign of Fancy is confirmed; she grows...and life passes in dreams of rapture or of anguish." LONDON: DR. JOHNSON. JAMES FRASER, REGENT STREET. 1833. BIOGRAPHICAL INTRODUCTION. THE following tale,... | |
| Richard Robert Madden - 1833
...to the favourite conception, and feasts on the luscious falsehood, whenever she is offended with the bitterness of truth. By degrees the reign of fancy...grows first imperious, and in time despotic. Then fiction begins to operate as reality, false opinions fasten on the mind, and life passes in dreams... | |
 | Richard Robert Madden - 1833
...to the favourite conception, and feasts on the luscious falsehood, whenever she is offended with the bitterness of truth. By degrees the reign of fancy,...grows first imperious, and in time despotic. Then fiction begins to operate as reality, false opinions fasten on the mind, and life passes in dreams... | |
 | John Abercrombie - 1833 - 349 pages
...to the favourite conception, and feasts on the luscious falsehood whenever she is offended with the bitterness of truth. By degrees the reign of fancy is confirmed; she grows first imperious, and in tiine despotic. Then fictions begin to operate as realities, false opinions fasten upon the mind, and... | |
 | John Abercrombie - 1834 - 376 pages
...to the favourite conception, and feasts on the luscious falsehood whenever she is offended with the bitterness of truth. By degrees the reign of fancy is confirmed ; she grows first imperious, and in ti.ne despotic. Then fictions begin to operate as realities, false opinions fasten upon the mind, and... | |
 | James Boswell - Literary Criticism - 1835
...to the favourite conception, and feasts on the luscious falsehood, whenever she is offended with the bitterness of truth. By degrees the reign of fancy...anguish. " This, Sir, is one of the dangers of solitude. " (1 ) In the paragraphs which we have just quoted, there is much reason to suppose, that Johnson was... | |
 | James Boswell - Literary Criticism - 1835
...to the favourite conception, and feasts on the luscious falsehood, whenever she is offended with the bitterness of truth. By degrees the reign of fancy...anguish. " This, Sir, is one of the dangers of solitude." (1) In the paragraphs which we have just quoted, there is much reason to suppose, that Johnson was... | |
 | John Abercrombie - 1835 - 284 pages
...feasts on the luscious falsehood whenever she is offended with the bitterness of truth. By degress the reign of fancy is confirmed ; she grows first...life passes in dreams of rapture or of anguish."* SECTION IV. OF REASON OR JUDGMENT. THE most simple view which we can take of reason probably is, that... | |
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In time, some particular train of ideas fixes the attention, all other intellectual gratifications are rejected; the mind, in weariness or leisure, recurs constantly to the favourite conception, and feasts on the luscious falsehood, whenever she is offended... 
