 | 1798 - 604 pages
...trench, and fpanifh languages. He had employed his mind chiefly upon works of action, and lubjects of fancy; and by indulging fome peculiar habits of thought, was eminently deligbted with thofe flights of imagination which pafs the bounds of nature, and to which the mind... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 340 pages
...had employed his mind chiefly upon works of fiction, and fubjed\s of fancy; and, by indulging feme peculiar habits of thought, was eminently delighted...nature', and to which the mind is reconciled only by a paffiye acquiescence in popular traditions. He loved fairies, genii, giants, and monitors; he delighted... | |
 | John Aikin - 1802 - 686 pages
...some peculiar habits of thought, was eminently delighted witli those flights of imagination which pass the bounds of nature, and to which the mind is reconciled only by a passive acquiescence in popular traditions. He loved fairies, genii, giants, and monsters ; he delighted... | |
 | William Collins - 1804 - 168 pages
...some peculiar habits of thought, was eminently delighted with those flights of imagination which pass the bounds of nature, and to which the mind is reconciled only by a passive acquiescence in popular traditions. He loved fairies, genii, giants, and monsters ; he delighted... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 238 pages
...some peculiar habits of thought, was eminently delighted with those flights of imagination which pass the bounds of Nature, and to which the mind is reconciled only by a passive acquiescence in popular traditions. He loved fairies, genii, giants, and monsters ; he delighted... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pages
...some peculiar habits of thought, was eminently delighted with those flights of imagination which pass the bounds of nature, and to which the mind is reconciled only by a passive acquiescence in popular traditions. He loved fairies, genii, giants, and monsters ; he delighted... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 404 pages
...some peculiar habits of thought, was eminently delighted with those flights of imagination which pass the bounds of nature, and to which the mind is reconciled only by a passive acquiescence in popular traditions. He loved fairies, genii, giants, and monsters; he delighted... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 494 pages
...some peculiar habits of thought, was eminently delighted with those flights of imagination which pass the bounds of nature, and to which the mind is reconciled only by a passive acquiescence in popular traditions. He loved fairies, genii, giants, and monsters; he delighted... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 556 pages
...some peculiar habits of thought, was eminently delighted with those flights of imagination which pass the bounds of nature, and to which the mind is reconciled only by a passive acquiescence in popular traditions. He loved fairies, genii, giants, and monsters ; he delighted... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 366 pages
...some peculiar habits of thought, was eminently delighted with those flights of imagination which pass the bounds of nature, and to which the mind is reconciled only by a passive acquiescence in popular traditions. He loved fairies, genii, giants, and monsters ; he delighted... | |
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He had employed his mind chiefly upon works of fiction, and subjects of fancy; and, by indulging some peculiar habits of thought, was eminently delighted with those flights of imagination which pass the bounds of nature, and to which the mind is reconciled... 
