| Oswald Doughty - 1922 - 492 ページ
...some peculiar habits of thought was eminently delighted with those nights 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... | |
| Sir Walter Scott - 1923 - 1122 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... | |
| 1923 - 540 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... | |
| Annie Edwards Powell Dodds - 1926 - 284 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."1 " The cant of sensibility " which was just beginning... | |
| C. E. de Haas - 1928 - 322 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... | |
| C. E. de Haas - 1928 - 334 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... | |
| Andrew Kippis - 744 ページ
...the Italian, French, " and Spanifh languages. He had employed his mind chiefty upon works of fietion, and " fubjects of fancy ; and, by indulging fome peculiar...nature, and to " which the mind is reconciled only by a pailive acquiefcence in popular traditions. He " loved Fairies, Genii, Giants, and Monfters ; he delighted... | |
| Alvin B. Kernan - 1989 - 384 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... | |
| Rictor Norton - 2005 - 788 ページ
...some peculiar habits of thought, was universally delighted with those nights of imagination which pass the bounds of nature, and to which the mind is reconciled only by a passive acquiescence in popular tradition. He loved fairies, genii, giants, and monsters; he delighted... | |
| Edwin Fuller Torrey, Judy Miller - 2001 - 442 ページ
...(1779-1781), Johnson describes Collins's work as follows: "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 Elysian gardens." At age thirty-two, Collins was "confined in a house... | |
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