| John Burgoyne - 1807 - Страниц: 274
...unconscious plagiarism—' Faded ideas,' says Mr. Sheridan, ' float in the fancy like half forgotten dreams; and imagination, in its fullest enjoyments,...offspring, and doubts whether it has created or adopted.' More sentiments and expression due to the imaginations of others, may possibly be challenged, though... | |
| John Burgoyne - 1808 - Страниц: 266
...unconscious plagiarism — ' Faded ideas,' says Mr. Sheridan, ' float in the fancy. like half forgotten dreams; and imagination, in its fullest enjoyments,...offspring, and doubts whether it has created or adopted.' More sentiments and expression due to the imaginations of others, may possibly be challenged, though... | |
| 1809 - Страниц: 672
...gentleman, " float in the fancy like half forgotten dreams , and the imagination, in its fullest enjoyment, becomes suspicious of its offspring, and doubts whether it has created or adcplsd." f Nous pouvons paroitre grands dans un emploi au-dessous de notre merite; mais nous paroissons... | |
| Mary Anne McMullan - 1816 - Страниц: 376
...unconsciously committed : but the Reader will admit, that " faded ideas float in the fancy, like half-forgotten dreams ; and imagination, in its fullest enjoyments, becomes suspicious of its offspring, uncertain whether it has created, or adopted." THE n* of a CHAPTER I. JL HE doctrine of the Metempsychosis... | |
| 1826 - Страниц: 952
...ideas float on the mind like half-forgotten dreams, and imagination, in its most suspicious moments, becomes suspicious of its offspring, and doubts whether it has created or adopted." To persons placed in the same situation, the same thoughts will naturally occur, and it was little... | |
| 1882 - Страниц: 870
...faded ideas float in the fancy like half-forgotten dreams ; and imagination, in its fullest enjoyment, becomes suspicious of its offspring, and doubts whether it has created or adopted." And Sheridan — for he it is who has it so — is illustrated in an interesting case found in the... | |
| Sir Thomas Charles Morgan - 1819 - Страниц: 586
...occasionally misleads even the brightest geniuses — " Faded ideas float in the fancy, like half forgotten dreams ; and imagination in its fullest enjoyments,...offspring, and doubts whether it has created, or adopted."* To this cause must be attributed the multitude of unmeaning centos in poetry and music, of revivals... | |
| Richard Brinsley Sheridan - 1821 - Страниц: 428
...invention is slow of exerting itself. Faded ideas float in the fancy like half-forgotten dreams ; and the imagination in its fullest enjoyments becomes suspicious...offspring, and doubts whether it has created or adopted. With regard to some particular passages which on the first night's representation seemed generally... | |
| 1823 - Страниц: 512
...ideas," says he, " float in the fancy like half-forgotten dreams ; and the imagination, in its lullest enjoyments, becomes suspicious of its offspring, and doubts whether it has created or adopted." Mr. R. has very pro bably been, on some occasion, no matter when, or now often, struck with the following... | |
| Richard Brinsley Sheridan - 1825 - Страниц: 346
...invention is slow of exerting itself. Faded ideas float in the fancy like half-forgotton dreams ; and the imagination in its fullest enjoyments becomes suspicious...offspring, and doubts whether it has created or adopted. With regard to some particular passages which on the first night's representation seemed generally... | |
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