 | John Bell - 1791 - 546 ページ
...only by a passive acquiescence in popular traditions. He loved fairies, genii, giants, and monsters; he delighted to rove through the meanders of inchantment,...to gaze on the magnificence of golden palaces, to repose by the waterfalls of Elysian gardens. This was however the character rather of his inclination... | |
 | 1791 - 172 ページ
...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... | |
 | 1794 - 954 ページ
...indulging ir ículiar habits of thought, wa» eminently delighted with thofe flights of imagination wbdjedt bounds of nature, and to which the mind is reconciled only by a paffive acqniefcenct is jffe traditions. He loved fairies, ger.'i, giants, and monfters; he delighted to rove... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1795 - 972 ページ
...fame peculiar habits of thought, was eminently delighted with thofe flights of imagination which paf* the bounds of nature, and to which the mind is reconciled only by a paflive acquiefcence in popular traditions. He loved fairies, genii, giants, and monfters; he delighted... | |
 | 1798 - 604 ページ
...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 is reconciled only by a pafEve acquicfcence in popular traditions. He loved fairies, genii, giants, and monfters ; he delighted... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 ページ
...only by a passive acquiescence in popular traditions. He loved fairies, genii, giants and monsters; he delighted to rove through the meanders of inchantment,...to gaze on the magnificence of golden palaces, to repose by the water-falls of Elysiari gardens. " This was however the character rather of his inclination... | |
 | John Aikin - 1802 - 686 ページ
...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... | |
 | 1803 - 926 ページ
...geniuj only fery'd to (new The thickning horror, and exalt hij woe. * "HE loved,'* lays Dr Johnfon, " fairies, genii, giants, and monfters : he delighted to rove through the meanders of enchantment,— to gaze on the magnificence of golden palaces, — to repofe by the waterfalls of Ely... | |
 | William Collins - 1804 - 168 ページ
...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 ページ
...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... 
