 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...  Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia - Page 115by Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 135 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 376 pages
...feasts on the luscious falsehood, whenever she i» offended with the bitterness of truth. By degree* the reign of fancy is confirmed ; she grows first imperious, and in time despotick. Then fictions begin to operate as realities, false opinions fasten upon the mind, and life... | |
 | Johann Georg Zimmermann - Loneliness - 1808 - 430 pages
...to the favourite conception, and feasts on the Inscious falsehood whenever she is offended with the bitterness of truth. By degrees the reign of fancy...begin to operate as realities, false opinions fasten on the mind, and life passes in dreams of rapture or of anguish. This is one of the dangers of Solitude."... | |
 | Nathan Drake - Adventurer - 1809 - 524 pages
...the favourite, conception, and feasts on the luscious falsehood, whenever she is offended with the bitterness of truth. By degrees the reign of Fancy...confirmed ; she grows first imperious, and in time despotick. Then fictions begin to operate as realities, false opinions fasten upon the mind, and life... | |
 | Nathan Drake - Adventurer - 1809 - 520 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...confirmed ; she grows first imperious, and in time despotick. Then fictions begin to operate as realities, false opinions fasten upon the mind, and life... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1809 - 530 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...confirmed ; she grows first imperious, and in time despotick. Then fictions begin to operate as realities, false opinions fasten upon the mind, and life... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 458 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...confirmed; she grows first imperious, and in time despotick. Then fictions begin to operate as realities, fulse opinions fasten E F. 4 upon upon the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English fiction - 1811 - 194 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...astronomer's misery has proved to be not always propitious t<i wisdom." " I will no more," said the favourite, " imag'itic myself the queen of Abissinia. I have... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Francis William Blagdon - English fiction - 1811 - 250 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...confirmed : she grows first imperious, and in time despotick. Then fictions begin to operate as realities, false opinions fasten upon the mind, and life... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 428 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...confirmed : she grows first imperious, and in time despotick. Then fictions begin to operate as realities, false opinions fasten upon the mind; and life... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1815 - 272 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...and life passes in dreams of rapture or of anguish. tc This, Sir, is one of the dangers of solitude, which the Hermit has confessed not always to promote... | |
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