 | Samuel Johnson, William Alexander Clouston - 1875 - 346 pàgines
...not pronounced madness but when it becomes ungovernable, and apparently influences speech or action. To indulge the power of fiction, and send imagination...those who delight too much in silent speculation. When we are alone we are not always busy ; the labour of excogitation is too violent to last long ;... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1876 - 430 pàgines
...pronounced madness but when it becomes ungovernable, and apparently influences speech or action. " To indulge the power of fiction, and send imagination...the sport of those who delight too much in silent epcculation. When we are alone we are not always busy ; the labour of excogitation ia too violent to... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1879 - 510 pàgines
...not pronounced madness, but when it becomes ungovernable and apparently influences speech or action. 'To indulge the power of fiction, and send imagination...those who delight too much in silent speculation. When we are alone we are not always busy ; the labour of excogitation is too violent to last long ;... | |
 | Bayard Tuckerman - 1882 - 426 pàgines
...scientific treatise on the causes of insanity, and in a collection of beautiful literary extracts : To indulge the power of fiction, and send imagination...those who delight too much in silent speculation. When we are alone, we are not always busy ; the labour of excogitation is too violent to last long... | |
 | William Beckford - 1883 - 446 pàgines
...not pronounced madness but when it becomes ungovernable, and apparently influences speech or action. "To indulge the power of fiction, and send imagination...those who delight too much in silent speculation. When we are alone we are not always busy ; the labour of excogitation is too violent to last long ;... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1886 - 186 pàgines
...is too violent to last long ; the ardor of inquiry will sometimes give way to idleness or satiety. He who has nothing external that can divert him must find pleasure in his own thoughts, Excogitation : the act of contriving or finding out anything by thinking. and must conceive himself... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1887 - 216 pàgines
...is too violent to last long ; the ardour of inquiry will sometimes give way to idleness or satiety. He who has nothing external that can divert him, must find pleasure in his own thoughts, and 20 must conceive himself what he is not ; for who is pleased with what he is ? He then expatiates in... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1891 - 286 pàgines
...pronounced mad15 ness, but when it becomes ungovernable and apparently influences speech or action. " To indulge the power of fiction, and send imagination...those who delight too much in silent speculation. When we are 20 alone we are not always busy ; the labor of excogitation is too violent to last long... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1895 - 252 pàgines
...not pronounced madness but when it becomes ungovernable, and apparently influences speech or action. "To indulge the power of fiction and send imagination out upon the wing, is often the sport of those 20 who delight too much in silent speculation. When we are alone we are not always busy; the labor... | |
 | Moses Samelson - 1898 - 412 pàgines
...place, what a delightful thing it would have been to awake each morning to see such a world once more. "To indulge the power of fiction, and send imagination...in his own thoughts; and must conceive himself what ho is not; for who is pleased with what he is? "lie can expatiate in boundless futurity, and culls... | |
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To indulge the power of fiction, and send imagination out upon the wing, is often the sport of those who delight too much in silent speculation. 
