 | 1835 - 616 pages
...sets. One mind has adorned it perhaps with all the magnificence and splendor of wealth. It has united all pleasures in all combinations, and riots in delights which nature and fortune with all their bounty, could not bestow. Another has admitted into her paradise nothing that can disturb her peace or annoy... | |
 | Johann Georg Zimmermann - 1836 - 202 pages
...external that can divert him, must find pleasure in his own thoughts, and must conceive himself what he is not; for who is pleased with what he is ? He then...from all imaginable conditions that which for the resent momenthe should most desire, amuses is desires with impossible enjoyments, and confers upon... | |
 | 1838 - 544 pages
...find pleasure in his own thoughts, and must conceive himself what he is not, — for who is content with what he is ? He then expatiates in boundless...unites all pleasures in all combinations, and riots in delight which nature and fortune, with all their bounty, cannot bestow. In time, some particular train... | |
 | 1838 - 274 pages
...find pleasure in his own thoughts, and must conceive himself what he is not, — for who is content with what he is ? He then expatiates in boundless...unites all pleasures in all combinations, and riots in delight which nature and fortune, with all their bounty, cannot bestow. In time, some particular train... | |
 | John Gideon Millingen - 1839 - 630 pages
...external that can divert him, must find pleasure in his own thoughts, and must conceive himself what he is not ; for who is pleased with what he is ? He then...expatiates in boundless futurity, and culls from all imaginary conditions that which for the present moment he would most desire ; amuses his desires with... | |
 | 1841 - 908 pages
...external that can divert him, must find pleasure in his own thoughts, and must conceive himself what he is not — for who is pleased with what he is ! He...imaginable conditions, that which for the present he should most desire, amuses his desires with impossible enjoyments, and confers upon his pride unattainable... | |
 | John Wilson Croker - 1842 - 544 pages
...in his own thoughts, and must conceive himself what he is not; for who is pleased with what he is7 He then expatiates in boundless futurity, and culls...dances from scene to scene, unites all pleasures in a-11 combinations, and riots in delights which nature and fortune, with all their bounty, cannot bestow.... | |
 | John Abercrombie - 1843 - 294 pages
...external that can divert him must find pleasure in his own thoughts, and must conceive himself what he is not, — for who is pleased with what he is ? He...imaginable conditions that which for the present moment heshould most desire ; amuses his desires with impossible enjoyments, and confers upon his pride unattainable... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1862 - 604 pages
...pleasure in his own thoughts and must conceive himself what he is not ; fur who is pleased with ichtit he is ? He then expatiates in boundless futurity,...confers upon his pride unattainable dominion.'''' Kindness triumphs over pride and madness by sympathetically exciting its own spirit, not by constraint,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1846 - 194 pages
...external that can divert him, must find pleasure in his own thoughts, and must conceive himself what he is not; for who is pleased with what he is ? He then...imaginable conditions that which for the present moment he schould most desire, amuses his desires with impossible enjoyments, and confers upon his pride unattainable... | |
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He who has nothing external that can divert him must find pleasure in his own thoughts, and must conceive himself what he is not ; for who is pleased with what he is? He then expatiates in boundless futurity, and culls from all imaginable conditions that... 
