 | Samuel Johnson - 1846 - 194 頁
...boundless futurity, and culls from all imaginable conditions that which for the present moment he schould most desire, amuses his desires with impossible enjoyments,...particular train of ideas fixes the attention: all other intellectual gratifications are rejected; the mind, in weariness or leisure, recurs constantly to the... | |
 | John Gideon Millingen - 1848 - 496 頁
...boundless futurity, and culls from all imaginary conditions, that which for the present moment he would most desire ; amuses his desires with impossible enjoyments, and confers upon his pride unattainable dominions. The mind dances from scene to scene, unites all pleasures in all combinations, and riots... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1851 - 228 頁
...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...unites all pleasures in all combinations, and riots 8* . r' < iu ; •< • '.,f ' " ' • ' ' f 178 RASSELAS. in delights, which nature and fortune, with... | |
 | 1852 - 596 頁
...present moment we should most desire, and use our desires with impossible enjoyments, and confer upon pride unattainable dominion. The mind dances from...delights, which nature and fortune, with all their bounty, can not bestow. In time, some particular train of ideas fixes the attention; all other intellectual... | |
 | John Abercrombie - 1853 - 300 頁
...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... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1853 - 588 頁
...forcibly set forth. After noticing the first evil effects of an illgoverned imagination, he proceeds : — "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... | |
 | George Peck - 1854 - 312 頁
...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 of leisure, recurs constantly to... | |
 | Francis Wharton, Moreton Stillé - 1855 - 858 頁
...boundless futurity, and culls from all imaginary conditions that which, for the present moment, he would most desire ; amuses his desires with impossible enjoyments,...particular train of ideas fixes the attention ; all other intellectual gratifications are rejected; the mind, in weariness or leisure, returns constantly to... | |
 | Francis Wharton - 1855 - 252 頁
...boundless futurity, and culls from all imaginary conditions that which, for the present moment, he would most desire ; amuses his desires with impossible enjoyments,...particular train of ideas fixes the attention ; all other intellectual gratifications are rejected ; the mind, in weariness or leisure, returns constantly to... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1856 - 118 頁
...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...dominion. The mind dances from scene to scene, unites al, pleasures in all combinations, and riots in delights which nature and fortune, with all their bounty,... | |
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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. 
