 | Moses Samelson - 1898 - 383 pages
...tho reign of fancy is confirmed; ehe grows first imperious, and in time despotic; then fiction begins to operate as realities: false opinions fasten upon...and life passes in dreams of rapture or of anguish." Obligation and reason can largely be construed into synonymous terms. When we perform an action, we... | |
 | Selden Haines Talcott - 1901 - 352 pages
...to the favorite conception, and feasts on the luscious falsehood, whenever she is offended with the bitterness of truth. By degrees the reign of fancy...and life passes in dreams of rapture or of anguish." Struggling against these ill-defined and misty influences, the patient feels painfully the slow gatherings... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Rasselas (prince of Abyssinia.) - 1886
...to the favorite conception, and feasts on the luscious falsehood whenever she is offended with the bitterness of truth. By degrees the reign of fancy...hermit has confessed not always to promote goodness, and"j the astronomer's misery has proved to be not always propitious to wisdom." ""I will no more,"... | |
 | Henry C. Sheppard - 1919 - 309 pages
...constantly to the favorite conception and feasts on the luscious falsehood whenever she is offended with the bitterness of truth. By degrees the reign of fancy...and life passes in dreams of rapture or of anguish." Or, in a milder way, through carelessness in the same regard, the logical outcome may be that one may... | |
 | 1907
...to the favorite conception, and feasts on the luscious falsehood whenever she is offended with the bitterness of truth. By degrees the reign of fancy...in dreams of rapture or of anguish. ' This, sir, is or e of the dangers of solitude, which the hermit has confessed not always to promote goodness, and... | |
 | Leo Damrosch - Philosophy - 1989 - 262 pages
...will come and go at his command. . . . All power of fancy over reason is a degree of insanity. ... By degrees the reign of fancy is confirmed; she grows...and life passes in dreams of rapture or of anguish. (Rasselas, chap. 44) To a striking degree this analysis is anticipated by Richard Sibbes in a treatise... | |
 | Eithne Henson - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 255 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 first grows imperious and in time despotick. (P. 105) The imagination has become a tyrannical mistress,... | |
 | Terry Castle Professor of English Stanford University - 1995 - 288 pages
...that once the mind "riots in delights which nature and fortune, with all their bounty, cannot bestow," the reign of fancy is confirmed: "she grows first...and life passes in dreams of rapture or of anguish." 15 The displacement of ghosts into the realm of psychology had far-reaching intellectual consequences.... | |
 | Swenta Steinig - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2000 - 582 pages
...die, isoliert vom Leben und der menschlichen Gemeinschaft, der Herrschaft ihrer Phantasie unterliegen: "By degrees the reign of fancy is confirmed; she grows first imperious, and in time despotick [sic]. Then fictions begin to operate as realities, false opinions fasten upon the mind,... | |
 | Lawrence Lipking - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 372 pages
...at any cost, and that Rasselas also dreams about, reflects the enslaving violence of fiction itself: "By degrees the reign of fancy is confirmed; she grows first imperious, and in time despotick."15 Free will, and even basic decency, depend on throwing off those mind-forged chains. Like... | |
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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... 
