 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 428 Seiten
...expiates 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 194 Seiten
...for the present moment he should most desire, amuses his desires with impossible enjoyments, aii<! confers upon his pride unattainable dominion. The...particular train of ideas fixes the attention, all other intellectual gratifications are rejected; the mind, in weariness or leisure, recurs constantly to the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1815 - 272 Seiten
...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...unattainable dominion. The mind dances from scene lo scene, unites all pleasures in all combinations, and riots in delights, which nature and fortune,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 250 Seiten
...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 - 1816 - 484 Seiten
...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... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1817 - 194 Seiten
...all imaginable conditions that which for the present moment he should most desire, amuses his desir3s with impossible enjoyments, and confers upon his pride...particular train of ideas fixes the attention ; all other intellectual gratifications are rejected ; the mind, itl weariness or leisure, recurs constantly to... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 420 Seiten
...expatiates in"bounuless 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... | |
 | Johann Georg Zimmermann - 1819 - 410 Seiten
...unattainable dominion. The mind danees from seene to seene, unites all p1 sures in all combinations, riots in delights which nature and fortune, with all...particular train of ideas fixes the attention ; all other intellectual gratifications are rejected; the mind in weariness or leisure, recurs constantly to the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 466 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 278 Seiten
...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... | |
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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. 
