 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 456 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... | |
 | 1820 - 286 Seiten
...from all imaginable conditions that which for the present moment he should most desire, amuses bis desires with impossible enjoyments, and confers upon...particular train of ideas fixes the attention : all other intellectual gratifications are rejected : the mind, in weariness or leisure, recurs constantly to... | |
 | 1822 - 666 Seiten
...in boundless futurity, and calls 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... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1823 - 764 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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1823 - 768 Seiten
...expatiates in boundless futurity, and culls from aU 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, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 594 Seiten
...impossible enjoyments, and confers upon his pride unattainable dominion. The mind dances from scence to scene, unites all pleasures in all combinations,...particular train of ideas fixes the attention, all other intellectual gratifications are rejected, the mind, in weariness or leisure, recurs constantly to the... | |
 | 1823
...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...pride unattainable dominion. The mind dances from scence to scene, unites all pleasures in all combinations, and riots in delights, which nature and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 582 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...pride unattainable dominion. The mind dances from scence to scene, unites all pleasures in all combinations, and riots in delights, which nature and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 612 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...pride unattainable dominion. The mind dances from scence to scene, unites all pleasures in all combinations, and riots in delights, which nature and... | |
 | Richard Carlile - 1823 - 816 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...confers upon his pride unattainable dominion. The mind slaves from scene to scene, unites all pleasures in all combinations, and riots in delights, which... | |
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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. 
