 | John Abercrombie - 1834 - 388 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...dances from scene to scene, unites all pleasures in all combina* Foster's Enayt. 'tions, and riots in delights which nature and fortune, with all their bounty,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 402 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 Abercrombie - 1835 - 298 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 460 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... | |
 | 1835 - 616 Seiten
...sets. One mind has adorned it perhaps with all the magnificence and splendor of wealth. It has united all pleasures in all combinations, and riots in delights which nature and fortune with all their bounty, could not bestow. Another has admitted into her paradise nothing that can disturb her peace or annoy... | |
 | John Wilson Croker - 1836 - 656 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... | |
 | Johann Georg Zimmermann - 1836 - 202 Seiten
...culls from all imaginable conditions that which for the resent momenthe should most desire, amuses is desires with impossible enjoyments, and confers upon...to scene, unites all pleasures in all combinations, riots in delights which nature and fortune, with all their bounty, cannot bestow. In time some particular... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1838 - 128 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...bounty, cannot bestow. In time, some particular train of idea? fixes the attenmind, in weariness cr leisure, recurs constantly to the favourite conception,... | |
 | 1838 - 272 Seiten
...in boundless futurity, and culls from all imaginable conditions that which, for the present moment, he should most desire ; amuses his desires with impossible...unites all pleasures in all combinations, and riots in delight which nature and fortune, with all their bounty, cannot bestow. In time, some particular train... | |
 | 1838 - 274 Seiten
...in boundless futurity, and culls from all imaginable conditions that which, for the present moment, he should most desire ; amuses his desires with impossible...unites all pleasures in all combinations, and riots in delight which nature and fortune, with all their bounty, cannot bestow. In time, some particular train... | |
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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. 
