 | 618 pages
...and riots in delights which nature and fortune, with all their bounty, cannot bestow. In time, Borne particular train of ideas fixes the attention ; all...intellectual gratifications are rejected; the mind, in weariness of leisure, recurs constantly to the favourite conception, and feasts on the luscious falsehood... | |
 | Henry Kiddle, Alexander Jacob Schem - 1881 - 378 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... | |
 | Bayard Tuckerman - 1882 - 348 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... | |
 | William Beckford - 1883 - 454 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... | |
 | William Beckford - 1883 - 452 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1891 - 286 pages
...riots1 in delights, which nature and fortune, with all their bounty, cannot 10 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 15 falsehood... | |
 | Selden Haines Talcott - 1901 - 364 pages
..."Rasselas,"has traced with a master-hand the slow, sinuous advances of mental derangement. He says : "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,... | |
 | Henry C. Sheppard - 1919 - 340 pages
...contained in "Rasselas," concerning the Alexandrian astronomer with seared intellect: "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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1927 - 258 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... | |
 | 1907 - 550 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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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... 
