 | Meyer Howard Abrams - 1971 - 420 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...and confers upon his pride unattainable dominion.** Johnson, of course, had no intention of applying his analysis of the imagination in wish-fulfillment... | |
 | Jacqueline Labrude Estenne - 1995 - 468 Seiten
...qui se livrent à la méditation solitaire donnent inévitablement libre cours à leur fantaisie : "The mind dances from scene to scene, unites all pleasures...and fortune, with all their bounty, cannot bestow" (p. 114). La folie est cet état paroxystique où la raison bascule vers son contraire. Sa nature est... | |
 | Patricia Meyer Spacks - 1995 - 316 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...and confers upon his pride unattainable dominion. (190-91) The explanation suggests one reason why the world's abundant sources of knowledge and the... | |
 | Patricia Meyer Spacks - 1995 - 310 Seiten
...expanates in boundless fututity, and culls from all imaginable conditions that which for the present moment he should most desire, amuses his desires with impossible enjoyments, and confers upon his pnde unattainable dominion. i190-91) The explanation suggests one reason why the worlds abundant sources... | |
 | Terry Castle Professor of English Stanford University - 1995 - 294 Seiten
...echoing Samuel Johnson's Rasselas, wrote in his Intellectual Powers of Man (1830), 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 imperious, and in time despotic. Then fictions begin... | |
 | Tim Fulford - 1996 - 274 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...and fortune, with all their bounty cannot bestow. (JW, vol. xv i, pp. 151-2) The resdessness of imagination, even Shakespeare's, must be checked before... | |
 | Peter Martin - 2002 - 644 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...and fortune, with all their bounty, cannot bestow. Johnsons definition of melancholy in his Dictionary/leaves us in no doubt that he regarded it as a... | |
 | Sarah Jordan - 2003 - 308 Seiten
...what he is not; for who is pleased with what he is? 31 This imaginative process leads to delight — "The mind dances from scene to scene, unites all pleasures...and fortune, with all their bounty, cannot bestow" 32 — but also to danger: "By degrees the reign of fancy is confirmed; she grows first imperious,... | |
 | Oliver Kast - 2007 - 105 Seiten
...is often the sport of those who delight too much in silent speculation. [...] The mind dances frorn scene to scene, unites all pleasures in all combinations,...and fortune, with all their bounty, cannot bestow (s. Rasselas 141). Verständlich wird Johnsons strikte Ablehnung, ja beinahe schon Verteufelung der... | |
 | Sydney Castle Roberts - 1958 - 192 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...and confers upon his pride unattainable dominion. ' For who is pleased with what he is ? ' That, in effect, was the theme of Johnson's own Prayers and... | |
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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. 
