 | 1796
...poffibility ; reality was a Tcene too narrow for his mind. He fent hit faculties out upon difcovery, into worlds where only imagination can. travel, and delighted to form new modes of cxiftence, and furnilh fentiment and aftion to fuperior beings, to trace the counfels of hell, or accompany... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779
...poffibility ; reality was a fcene too narrow for his mind. He Cent his faculties out upon difcovery, into worlds where only imagination can travel, and delighted to form new modes .of exiftence, and furnifh fentiment and sftion to fuperior beings, to trace the counfels of hell, or accompany... | |
 | Tobias George Smollett - 1779
...poffibility ; reality was a fcene too narrow for his mind. He fent his faculties out upon difcovery, -into worlds •where only imagination can travel ; and delighted to form new modes of exillence, and furnifli fentiment and aftion to fuperior beings, to trace the counfels of hell, or... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779
...poflibility ; reality was a fcene too narrow for his mind. He fent his faculties out upondifcovery, into worlds where only imagination can travel, and delighted to form new modes cf exiftence, and furnifh fentiment and action to fuperior beings, to trace the counfels of hell, or... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779
...poffibility; reality was a fcene too narrow for his mind. He fe.nt his faculties out upon difcovery, into worlds where only imagination can travel, and delighted to form new modes x>f exiftence, and furnifh fentiment and action to fuperior beings, to trace the counfels of hell,... | |
 | 1780
...poffibility ; reality was a fcene too narrow, for his mind. He fent his faculties out upon difcovery, into worlds where only imagination can travel, and delighted to form new modes of exiflence, and furnifh fcntiment and adion to fuperior beings, to trace the counfels of hell, or accompany... | |
 | 1780
...poflibility ; reality was a fcene too narrow for his mind. He fent his faculties out upon difcovcry, into worlds where only imagination can travel, and delighted to form new modes of exillence, and furnilh fentiment and action to fuperior beings, to trace the counfels of hell, or accompany... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 503 páginas
...pof£bility ; reality was a fc6ne too narrow for his mind. He fent his faculties out upon difcovery, into worlds where Only imagination can travel, and delighted to form new modes of exiftence, and furnifh fentiment and action to fuperior beings, to trace the counfels of hell, or accompany... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787
...poffibility ; reality was a fcene too narrow for his mind. He fent his faculties out upon difcovery, into worlds Where only imagination can travel, and delighted to form new modes of exiftence, and furnifh fentiment and action to fuperior beings, to trace the counfels of hell, or accompany... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787
...pofTIbility ; reality was a fcene too narrow for his mi mi. He fent his faculties out upon difcovery, into worlds where only imagination can travel, and delighted to form new modes of exiftence, and furaifti fentiment and action to fuperior beings, to trace the counfcls of hell, or... | |
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To paint things as they are requires a minute attention, and employs the memory rather than the fancy. Milton's delight was to sport in the wide regions of possibility; reality was a scene too narrow for his mind. He sent his faculties out upon discovery,... 
