The prince of Abissinia [by S. Johnson].1783 |
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... effect of longer experience could not be known . Thus every year produced new schemes of delight , and new com- petitors for imprisonment . The palace ftood on an eminence raised about thirty paces above the fur- face of the lake . It ...
... effect of longer experience could not be known . Thus every year produced new schemes of delight , and new com- petitors for imprisonment . The palace ftood on an eminence raised about thirty paces above the fur- face of the lake . It ...
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... effect that which it was very eafy to fuppofe effected . When he looked round about him , he faw him- felf confined by the bars of nature which had never yet been broken , and by the gate , through which none that once had paffed it ...
... effect that which it was very eafy to fuppofe effected . When he looked round about him , he faw him- felf confined by the bars of nature which had never yet been broken , and by the gate , through which none that once had paffed it ...
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... effect . You , Sir , whofe curiofity is fo extensive , will easily con- ceive with what pleasure a philofopher , furnished with wings , and hovering in the sky , would see the earth , and all its inhabitants , rolling beneath him , and ...
... effect . You , Sir , whofe curiofity is fo extensive , will easily con- ceive with what pleasure a philofopher , furnished with wings , and hovering in the sky , would see the earth , and all its inhabitants , rolling beneath him , and ...
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... effect of virtue animated by youth : the time will come when you will acquit your father , and perhaps hear with lefs impatience of the governour . Oppreffion is , in the Abiffinian domi- nions , neither frequent nor tolerated ; but no ...
... effect of virtue animated by youth : the time will come when you will acquit your father , and perhaps hear with lefs impatience of the governour . Oppreffion is , in the Abiffinian domi- nions , neither frequent nor tolerated ; but no ...
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... effect of knowledge ? Are those nations happier than we ? " " There is so much infelicity , faid the poet , in the world , that scarce any man has leifure from his own diftreffes to efti- mate the comparative happiness of others ...
... effect of knowledge ? Are those nations happier than we ? " " There is so much infelicity , faid the poet , in the world , that scarce any man has leifure from his own diftreffes to efti- mate the comparative happiness of others ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Abiffinia againſt almoſt amuſe anſwered Arab Baffa becauſe buſineſs Cairo caufe cauſe CHAP cloſe confidered converſation courſe curiofity defign defire delight diſcover eafily eſcape evil fage faid Imlac faid Nekayah faid Raffelas faid the prince fame favourite fearch fecured feen fhall fhort fide filent fince firſt folitude fome fomething fometimes foon forrow ftate ftill fuch fuffer fupplied fuppofe furely happineſs happy happy valley himſelf hope increaſe inftruct knowledge labour laft learned lefs live loft maids marriage ment mifery mind moſt mountains muft muſt myſelf nature neceffary nefs never Nile obferved paffed paffions Pekuah pleafed pleaſed pleaſure prefent princeſs purpoſe pyramid raiſed reafon refolved reft refuſed returned ſaid ſcheme ſee ſhall ſhe ſhould ſome ſpent ſtate ſtay ſtream themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe thou thought thouſand tion truft uſe valley vifit weary whofe wiſdom yourſelf youth
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 13 - The intermediate hours are tedious and gloomy ; I long again to be hungry, that I may again quicken my attention. The birds peck the berries or the corn, and fly away to the groves, where they sit in seeming happiness on the branches, and waste their lives in tuning one unvaried series of sounds.
Seite 68 - 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 42 - 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 69 - But the knowledge of nature is only half the task of a poet; he must be acquainted likewise with all the modes of life. His character requires that he estimate the happiness and misery of every condition, observe the power of all the passions in all their combinations, and trace the changes of the human mind as they are modified by various institutions and accidental influences of climate or custom, from the sprightliness of infancy to the despondence of decrepitude.
Seite 15 - With observations like these the prince amused himself as he returned, uttering them with a plaintive voice yet with a look that discovered him to feel some complacence in his own perspicacity, and to receive some solace of the miseries of life from consciousness of the delicacy with which he felt and the eloquence with which he bewailed them. He mingled...
Seite 4 - The sides of the mountains were covered with trees; the banks of the brooks were diversified with flowers; every blast shook spices from the rocks and every month dropped fruits upon the ground.
Seite 52 - Inconsistencies," answered Imlac, "cannot both be right, but imputed to man they may both be true.
Seite 66 - Being now resolved to be a poet, I saw every thing with a new purpose; my sphere of attention was suddenly magnified: no kind of knowledge was to be overlooked. I ranged mountains and deserts for images and resemblances, and pictured upon my mind every tree of the forest and flower of the valley. I observed with equal care the crags of the rock and the pinnacles of the palace. Sometimes I wandered along the mazes of the rivulet, and sometimes watched the changes of the summer clouds.
Seite 139 - To live according to nature, is to act always with due regard to the fitness arising from the relations and qualities of causes and effects ; to concur with the great and unchangeable scheme of universal felicity ; to co-operate with the general disposition and tendency of the present system of things.
Seite 190 - This opinion, which, perhaps, prevails as far as human nature is diffused, could become universal only by its truth: those that never heard of one another would not have agreed in a tale which nothing but experience can make credible. That it is doubted by single cavillers can very little weaken the general evidence, and some who deny it with their tongues, confess it by their fears.