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. The Southern literary messenger - 第 125 頁 1841 完整檢視 - 關於此書
...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...
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. 
