Dissertation on Greek comedy fr. Brumoy. Observations on Macbeth. Adventurer. RasselasNichols and Son, 1801 |
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... tanti , Ut rebus lætis par fit menfura malorum ! Juv . See the wild purchase of the bold and vain , Where every blifs is bought with equal pain ! As As I entered into the world very young , with 138 THE ADVENTURER . N ° 34 .
... tanti , Ut rebus lætis par fit menfura malorum ! Juv . See the wild purchase of the bold and vain , Where every blifs is bought with equal pain ! As As I entered into the world very young , with 138 THE ADVENTURER . N ° 34 .
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Samuel Johnson. As I entered into the world very young , with an elegant perfon and a large eftate , it was not long before I difentangled myself from the fhackles of religion ; for I was determined to the purfuit of pleasure , which ...
Samuel Johnson. As I entered into the world very young , with an elegant perfon and a large eftate , it was not long before I difentangled myself from the fhackles of religion ; for I was determined to the purfuit of pleasure , which ...
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... entered the world with a reputed fortune of ten thousand pounds . Of this he very well knew that eight thousand was imaginary : but being a man of refined policy , and knowing how much honour is annexed to riches , he refolved never to ...
... entered the world with a reputed fortune of ten thousand pounds . Of this he very well knew that eight thousand was imaginary : but being a man of refined policy , and knowing how much honour is annexed to riches , he refolved never to ...
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... entered , and the fupercilious ci- vility with which they paid their compliments to each other . When the first ceremony was dif- patched , we fat filent for a long time , all employed in collecting importance into our faces , and endea ...
... entered , and the fupercilious ci- vility with which they paid their compliments to each other . When the first ceremony was dif- patched , we fat filent for a long time , all employed in collecting importance into our faces , and endea ...
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... entered my imagination , I found the fatigues of my employment every day more oppreffive , and perfuaded myself that I was no longer equal to perpetual attention , and that my health would foon be destroyed by the torment and ...
... entered my imagination , I found the fatigues of my employment every day more oppreffive , and perfuaded myself that I was no longer equal to perpetual attention , and that my health would foon be destroyed by the torment and ...
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againſt amufe anfwered Ariftophanes Baffa Banquo becauſe caufe cenfure comedy comick confequence confidered converfation defign defire delight difcovered eafily endeavoured eſcape Euripides faid Imlac faid the prince fame fatire fays fcarcely fcene fecurity feems feen fenfe fentiments fhall fhew fhort fhould fide fince fingle firft firſt folitude fome fomething fometimes foon ftate ftill fubject fuccefs fuch fuffer fufficient fuppofed furely genius happineſs happy himſelf honour hope imagine itſelf juft kayah laft leaſt lefs likewife lofe loft Macbeth mankind Menander mifery mind moft Moliere moſt muft muſt myſelf nature neceffary Nekayah never obfcure obferved occafion paffage paffed paffions Pekuah phanes Plautus pleafed pleaſe pleaſure Plutarch poet prefent princefs publick purpoſe racter Raffelas raiſe reafon refolved refpect reft ſhall Socrates ſtate taſte thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe thought tion tragedy underſtand univerfal uſed whofe
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Seite 317 - But what would be the security of the good if the bad could at pleasure invade them from the sky? Against an army sailing through the clouds, neither walls nor mountains nor seas could afford any security. A flight of northern savages might hover in the wind and light at once with irresistible violence upon the capital of a fruitful region that was rolling under them.
Seite 329 - The business of a poet," said Imlac, "is to examine not the individual but the species, to remark general properties and large appearances; he does not number the streaks of the tulip or describe the different shades in the verdure of the forest.
Seite 316 - Nile through all his passage; pass over to distant regions, and examine the face of nature from one extremity of the earth to the other!
Seite 305 - Man surely has some latent sense for which this place affords no gratification, or he has some desires distinct from sense which must be satisfied before he can be happy.
Seite 389 - Whoever thou art that, not content with a moderate condition, imaginest happiness in royal magnificence, and dreamest that command or riches can feed the appetite of novelty with perpetual gratifications, survey the Pyramids, and confess thy folly!
Seite 95 - Implored your highness' pardon and set forth A deep repentance: nothing in his life Became him like the leaving it; he died As one that had been studied in his death, To throw away the dearest thing he owed As 'twere a careless trifle.
Seite 378 - ... after conformity of opinions, similarity of manners, rectitude of judgment, or purity of sentiment?
Seite 89 - Tiger: But in a sieve I'll thither sail, And, like a rat without a tail, I'll do, I'll do, and I'll do.
Seite 441 - ... to found a college of learned women, in which she would preside, that by conversing with the old, and educating the young, she might divide her time between the acquisition and communication of wisdom, and raise up for the next age models of prudence, and patterns of piety.
Seite 415 - I have possessed for five years the regulation of the weather, and the distribution of the seasons ; the sun has listened to my dictates, and passed from tropic to tropic by my direction ; the clouds, at my call, have poured their waters, and the Nile has overflowed at my command ; I have restrained the rage of the dog-star, and mitigated the fervours of the crab.