 | John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1916 - 828 pages
...they suppose, and strongly imagine, they act, or that they see done.— So delightsome these toys 1 in such contemplations, and fantastical meditations, which are like so many dreams, and will hardly... | |
 | Logan Pearsall Smith - English prose literature - 1920 - 264 pages
...conceive and meditate of such pleasant things, sometimes "present, past, or to come," as Rhasis speaks. So delightsome these toys are at first, they could...and they will hardly be drawn from them or willingly interrupt; so pleasant their vain conceits are, that they hinder their ordinary tasks and necessary... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - American essays - 1920 - 492 pages
...they suppose, and strongly imagine, they act, or that they see done. — >So delightsome these toys at first, they could spend whole days and nights without sleep, even whole years in such contemplations, and fantastical meditations, which are like so many dreams, and will hardly... | |
 | Amy Louise Reed - English poetry - 1924 - 294 pages
...incomparable delight it is to melancholize, and build castles in the air. ... So delightsome are these toys at first, they could spend whole days and nights without...in such contemplations and fantastical meditations. . . . They run earnestly on in this labyrinth of anxious and solicitous melancholy meditations . .... | |
 | Jacob Zeitlin - Literary Criticism - 1926 - 408 pages
...conceive and meditate of such pleasant things sometimes, "present, past, or to come," as Rhasis speaks. So delightsome these toys are at first, they could...and they will hardly be drawn from them or willingly interrupt. So pleasant their vain conceits are, that they hinder their ordinary tasks and necessary... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1926 - 930 pages
...they suppose, and strongly imagine, they act, or that they see done. — So delightsome these toys1 or a' that, an' a' that, His riband, star, an' a' that, The man o' independent m in such contemplations, and fantastical meditations, which are like so many dreams, and will hardly... | |
 | Paul Milton Fulcher - English essays - 1927 - 336 pages
...they suppose, and strongly imagine, they act, or that they see done. — So delightsome these toys at first, they could spend whole days and nights without sleep, even whole years in such contemplations, and fantastical .meditations, which are like so many dreams, and will hardly... | |
 | Gilbert Highet - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1949 - 802 pages
...dangers and delights of building castles in the air, and how the habit grows on those who indulge in it : 'So delightsome these toys are at first, they could...they will hardly be drawn from them, or willingly interrupt, so pleasant their vain conceits are, that they hinder their ordinary tasks and necessary... | |
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So delightsome these toys are at first, they could spend whole days and nights without sleep, even whole years alone in such contemplations, and fantastical meditations, which are like unto dreams, and they will hardly be drawn from them, or willingly... 
