 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 162 pages
...th& bitterness of truth. By degrees the reign of fancy is confirmed ; she grows first imperious, and, in time, despotic. Then fictions begin to operate...and life passes in dreams of rapture or of anguish. "This, Sir, is one of the dangers of solitude, which the hermit has confessed not always to promote... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 376 pages
...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...and life passes in dreams of rapture or of anguish. " This, Sir, is one of the dangers of solitude, which the hermit has confessed not always to promote... | |
 | Johann Georg Zimmermann - 1808 - 430 pages
...the bitterness of truth. By degrees the reign of fancy is confirmed ; she grows first imperious, and in time despotic : then fictions 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."... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 210 pages
...the bitterness of truth. By degrees the reign of fancy is confirmed ; she grows first imperious, and in time despotic. Then fictions begin to operate as...and life passes in dreams of rapture or of anguish. " This, Sir, is one of the dangers of solitude, which the hermit has confessed not always to promote... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1809 - 530 pages
...truth. By degrees the reign of Fancy is confirmed ; she grows first imperious, and in time despotick. Then fictions begin to operate as realities, false...and life passes in dreams of rapture or of anguish. " This, Sir, is one of the dangers of solitude." * In the paragraphs which we have just quoted there... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1809 - 524 pages
...truth. By degrees the reign of Fancy is confirmed ; she grows first imperious, and in time despotick. Then fictions begin to operate as realities, false...and life passes in dreams of rapture or of anguish. ••• . . " This, Sir, is; one of the dangers of solitude."* In the paragraphs which we have just... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1809 - 520 pages
...truth. By degrees 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 passes iii dreams of rapture or of anguish. " This, Sir, is one of the dangers of solitude."* In the paragraphs... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 230 pages
...the bitterness of truth. By degrees the reign of fancy is confirmed ; she grows first imperious, and in time despotic. Then fictions begin to operate as...and life passes in dreams of rapture or of anguish. " This, sir, is one of the dangers of solitude, which the hermit has confessed not always to promote... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 458 pages
...and in time despotick. Then fictions begin to operate as realities, fulse opinions fasten E F. 4 upon upon the mind, and life passes in dreams of rapture or of anguish. " This, Sir, is one of the dangers of solitude, which the hermit has confessed not always to promote... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 194 pages
...the bitterness of truth. By degrees the reign of fancy is confirmed; she grows first imperious, and in time despotic. Then fictions begin to operate as...and life passes in dreams of rapture or of anguish. " This, sir, is one of the dangers of solitude, which the hermit has confessed not always to promote... | |
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... 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 with the bitterness of truth. By degrees the reign of fancy is confirmed;... 
