 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 162 頁
...feasts on the luscious falsehood whenever she is offended with th& bitterness of truth. By degrees the reign of fancy is confirmed ; she grows first...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 頁
...feasts on the luscious falsehood, whenever she i» offended with the bitterness of 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 opinions fasten upon the mind, and life... | |
 | Johann Georg Zimmermann - 1808 - 430 頁
...feasts on the Inscious falsehood whenever she is offended with the bitterness of truth. By degrees the reign of fancy is confirmed ; she grows first...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 頁
...feasts on the luscious falsehood whenever she is offended with the bitterness of truth. By degrees the reign of fancy is confirmed ; she grows first...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 頁
...feasts on the luscious falsehood, whenever she is offended with the bitterness of 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... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1809 - 524 頁
...feasts on the luscious falsehood, whenever she is offended with the bitterness of 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... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1809 - 520 頁
...feasts on the luscious falsehood, whenever she is offended with the bitterness of 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 230 頁
...feasts on the luscious falsehood, whenever she is offended with the bitterness of truth. By degrees the reign of fancy is confirmed ; she grows first...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 頁
...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 頁
...feasts on the luscious falsehood, whenever she is offended with the bitterness of truth. By degrees the reign of fancy is confirmed; she grows first imperious,...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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In time some particular train of ideas fixes the attention; all other intellectual 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... 
