 | Walter Scott - 1835
...Collins, " who," says J>r Johnson, " 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... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1836 - 310 ページ
...some peculiar hahits 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 - 1837
...some peculiar habits of thought, was eminently delighted with those flights of imagination which pass rly introduced after the mention of mildness and gentleness, which passive acquiescence in popular traditions. He loved fairies, genii, giants, and monsters ; he dplighted... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1838
...says Dr Johnson, "was eminently delighted with those flights of imagination, which pass the hounds 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... | |
 | 1839
...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 passive acquiescence in popular tradition. He loved fairies and genii, giants and monsters ; he delighted... | |
 | 1839
...peculiar habits of thought, was eminently delighted with those flights of imagination which pass ti »• bounds of nature, and to which the mind is reconciled only by passive acquiescence in popular tradition. He loved fairies and genii, giapts and monsters ; ho delighted... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1841
...Collins, " who," says Dr. Johnson, "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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1841 - 823 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... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845
...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... | |
 | Thomas Medwin - 1847 - 372 ページ
...peculiar habits of thought^was universally 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 tradition. 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... 
