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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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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay, Volume 6

Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 728 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 1

Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 514 pages
...riots in delights, which nature and fortune, with all their bounty, cannot bestow. " lu 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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Inquiries Concerning the Intellectual Powers, and the Investigation of Truth

John Abercrombie - 1832 - 392 pages
...and riots in delights which nature and fortune, with all theifcbounty, 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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Inquiries Concerning the Intellectual Powers: And the Investigation of Truth

John Abercrombie - 1834 - 388 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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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of His ..., Volume 10

James Boswell - 1835 - 460 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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Inquiries Concerning the Intellectual Powers, and the Investigation of Truth

John Abercrombie - 1835 - 298 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 favorite conception, and feasts on the luscious falsehood...
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The life of Samuel Johnson ... including A journal of his tour to ..., Volume 10

James Boswell - 1835 - 402 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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Johnsoniana; or, Supplement to Boswell [ed. by J.W. Croker].

John Wilson Croker - 1836 - 656 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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The Saturday Magazine, Volumes 12-13

1838 - 544 pages
...and riots in delight 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 Saturday Magazine, Volume 12

1838 - 274 pages
...and riots in delight 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 luseious falsehood...
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