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The history of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia. The vision of Theodore. The ... - Page 122
by Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787
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Essays: Biographical, Critical, and Historical; Illustrative of ..., Volume 1

Nathan Drake - 1809 - 530 pages
...and riots in delights which nature and fortune, with all their bounty, cannot bestow. " In time, some particular train of ideas fixes the attention; all...intellectual gratifications are rejected ; th.e mind, in weariness or leisure, recurs constantly to the favourite conception, and feasts on the luscious falsehood,...
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Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical: Illustrative of ..., Volume 1

Nathan Drake - 1809 - 524 pages
...and riots in delights which nature and fortune, with all their bounty, cannot bestow. " In time, some particular train of ideas fixes the attention; all...intellectual gratifications are rejected ; the mind, in weariness or leisure, recurs constantly to the favourite, conception, and feasts on the luscious falsehood,...
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Rasselas: A Tale

Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 210 pages
...and riots in delights which nature and fortune, with all their beauty, cannot bestow. " In time some particular train of ideas fixes the attention, all...intellectual gratifications are rejected, the mind, in weariness or leisure recurs constantly to the favourite conception, and feasts on the luscious falsehood...
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Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical Illustrative of the ..., Volume 1

Nathan Drake - 1809 - 520 pages
...riots in delights which nature and fortune, with, all their bounty, cannot bestow. " In time, some particular train of ideas fixes the attention; all...intellectual gratifications are rejected ; the mind, in weariness or leisure, recurs constantly to the favourite conception, and feasts on the luscious falsehood,...
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Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia: A Tale

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 230 pages
...riots in delights which nature and fortune, with all their bounty, cannot bestov/. " In time, some particular train of ideas fixes the attention, all...intellectual gratifications are rejected ; the mind, in weariness or leisure, recurs constantly to the favorite conception, and feasts on the luscious falsehood,...
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Works, Volume 3

Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 428 pages
...delights, which nature and fortune, with all their bounty, cannot bestow. .. •• " In time, some particular train of ideas fixes the attention, all...intellectual gratifications are rejected, the mind, in weariness or leisure, recurs constantly to the favourite conception, and feasts on the luscious falsehood,...
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The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia

Samuel Johnson, Francis William Blagdon - 1811 - 250 pages
...riots in delights, which nature and fortune, with all their bounty, cannot bestow. " In time, some particular train of ideas fixes the attention, all...intellectual gratifications are rejected, the mind, in weariness or leisure, recurs constantly to the favourite conception, and feasts on the luscious falsehood,...
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Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia: A Tale

Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 194 pages
...and riots in delights which nature and fortune, with all their bounty, cannot bestow. " In time, some particular train of ideas fixes the attention, all...intellectual gratifications are rejected; the mind, in weariness or leisure, recurs constantly to the favourite conception, and feasts on the luscious falsehood,...
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Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia: A Tale

Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 250 pages
...riots in delights, which nature and fortune, with all their bounty, cannot bestow. " In time, some particular train of ideas fixes the attention ; all...intellectual gratifications are rejected ; the mind, in weariness or leisure, recurs constantly to the favourite conception, and feasts on the luscious falsehood,...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 3

Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 484 pages
...riots in delights, which nature and fortune, with all their bounty, cannot bestow. " In time, some particular train of ideas fixes the attention, all...intellectual gratifications are rejected, the mind, in weariness or leisure, recurs constantly to the favourite conception, and feasts on the luscious falsehood,...
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