 DISORDERS of intellect, answered Imlac, happen much more often than superficial observers will easily believe. Perhaps, if we speak with rigorous exactness, no human mind is in its right state. There is no man whose imagination does not sometimes predominate...  Wit and Wisdom of Samuel Johnson - Страница 162по Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 323 странициПълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | 1907 - 550 страници
...human mind is in its right state. There is no man whose imagination does not sometimes predominate over his reason, who can regulate his attention wholly...found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability. All power of fancy... | |
 | Nicola Bown - 2001 - 264 страници
...the fancy was an uncontrollable force that might very well lead to mental, bodily or social disorder: No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do...power of fancy over reason is a degree of insanity ... it is not pronounced madness but when it becomes ungovernable, and apparently influences speech... | |
 | Keith Michael Baker, Peter Hanns Reill - 2001 - 220 страници
...one is safe from the imagination: 'There is no man whose imagination does not sometimes predominate over his reason, who can regulate his attention wholly...will, and whose ideas will come and go at his command. ... All power of fancy over reason is a degree of insanity; . . . By degrees the reign of fancy is... | |
 | Barbara Taylor - 2003 - 356 страници
...to maintain them led to a strong re-affirmation of older hostilities toward the fantasising psyche. 'No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do...hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability,' Samuel Johnson cautioned in his Rasselas. 'All power of fancy over reason is a degree of insanity.'14... | |
 | William F. Bynum, Roy Porter, Michael Shepherd - 2003 - 352 страници
...human mind is in its right state. There is no man whose imagination does not sometimes predominate over his reason, who can regulate his attention wholly...of insanity; but while this power is such as we can controul and repress, it is not visible to others, nor considered as any deprivation of the mental... | |
 | Roy Porter - 2004 - 600 страници
...'There is no man whose imagination does not sometimes predominate over his reason, who can regulate this attention wholly by his will, and whose ideas will come and go at his command. . . . All power of fancy over reason is a degree of insanity.' It was precisely this despotism of imagination... | |
 | Jane Austen - 2005 - 844 страници
...mind's dynamic qualities and reflects his insistence that mental life is often beyond our control: 'no man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize' (Samuel Johnson, Rasselas, Prince ofAbissinia, in Works (12 vols., London, 1820), vol. 3... | |
 | John Carey - 2006 - 300 страници
...reason . . . There is no man whose imagination does not sometimes predominate over his reason . . . and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of...power of fancy over reason is a degree of insanity. For Swift, though, the alternative to reason is not insanity but lust, bestiality, passion and the... | |
 | Thomas R. Frosch - 2007 - 368 страници
...IMLAC'S FAMOUS TREATISE ON "THE DANGEROUS prevalence of imagination" in Samuel Johnson's Rasselas, "No man will be found, in whose mind airy notions...power of fancy over reason, is a degree of insanity" (150). Imlac attributes this malady to solitude: "He who has nothing external that can divert him,... | |
 | Oliver Kast - 2007 - 105 страници
...Im Folgenden: Standop/ Mertner 17 There is no man, whose Imagination does not sometimes predominate over his reason, who can regulate his attention wholly...ideas will come and go at his command. No man will be tbund in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the... | |
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