 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 548 pages
...consider how many waves are rolling between me and Strcatham. The nse of travelling is to regnlate imagination by. reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. Here are monntains which I shonld once have climbed, bnt to climb steeps is now very laborions, and to descend... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 860 pages
...in Skie. There is neither town nor village in the island, nor have I seen any house but Macleod.s, that is not much below your habitation at Brighthelmstone....reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to gee them as they are. Here are mountains which I should once have climbed ; but to climb steeps "is... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 514 pages
...from which I look upon the water, and consider how many waves are rolling between me and Streutham. The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and, instead of thinking how things mav be, to see them as they are. Here are mountains which I should once have climbed ; but to climb... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1831 - 586 pages
...•;• •!• i .,, -)v»w :»-w " The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, aju] instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they art-. Here are mountains which I should once have climbed ; but to climb steeps is now very laborious,... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1835 - 366 pages
...them; the acute see a little, and supply the rest with fancy and conjecture. 154. Use of Travelling. The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by...thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. 155. Principles. Principles can only be strong by the strength of understanding, or the cogency of... | |
 | John Wilson Croker - 1836 - 656 pages
...them ; the acute see a little, and supply the rest with fancy and conjecture. 154. Use of Travelling. The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by...thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. 155. Principles. Principles can only be strong by the strength of understanding, or the cogency of... | |
 | John Wilson Croker - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1842 - 546 pages
...them; the acute see a little, and supply the rest with fancy and conjecture. 154. Use of Travelling. The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by...thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. 155. Principles. Principles can only be strong by the strength of understanding, or the cogency of... | |
 | John Wilson Croker - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1842 - 544 pages
...them; the acute see a little, and supply the rest with fancy and conjecture. 154. Use of Travelling. The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by...thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. 155. Principles. Principles can only be strong by the strength of understanding, or the cogency of... | |
 | James Stamford Caldwell - Literature and morals - 1843 - 372 pages
...rejouis, qu'a etre goutés et applaudis; et le plaisir le plus delicat est de faire celui d'autrui.* The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by...thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. * The merit of Shakspeare is such as the ignorant can take in, and the learned add nothing to. 6 Discretion... | |
 | William Harrison Ainsworth - English literature - 1845 - 618 pages
...stranger manners; but this time it is with a traveller who has abided by Lord Bacon's injunction, that " the use of travelling is to regulate imagination by...reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, see them as they are." Hence we have not so many crimson banners waving from the battlements, beautiful... | |
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The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. 
