The Prince of Abissinia: A Tale : in Two VolumesR. and J. Dodsley, ... and W. Johnston, 1759 - 165 Seiten |
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... most easily accomodated to the human form . Upon this model I fhall begin my task to morrow , and in a year expect to tower into the air beyond the malice or perfuit of man . But I will work only on this condition , that the art shall ...
... most easily accomodated to the human form . Upon this model I fhall begin my task to morrow , and in a year expect to tower into the air beyond the malice or perfuit of man . But I will work only on this condition , that the art shall ...
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... most ancient poets are confidered as the best whether it be that every other kind of knowledge is an acquifition gradually attained , and poetry is a gift conferred at once ; or that the first poetry of every nation surprised them as ...
... most ancient poets are confidered as the best whether it be that every other kind of knowledge is an acquifition gradually attained , and poetry is a gift conferred at once ; or that the first poetry of every nation surprised them as ...
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... most striking objects for description , and the moft probable occur- rences for fiction , and left nothing to thofe that followed them , but tranfcrip- tion of the fame events , and new combi- nations of the fame images . Whatever be ...
... most striking objects for description , and the moft probable occur- rences for fiction , and left nothing to thofe that followed them , but tranfcrip- tion of the fame events , and new combi- nations of the fame images . Whatever be ...
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... most , will have moft power of diverfifying his scenes , and of gratifying his reader with remote allufions and unexpected instruc- tion . F 2 " All " All the appearances of nature I was therefore careful ABISSINI A. 67.
... most , will have moft power of diverfifying his scenes , and of gratifying his reader with remote allufions and unexpected instruc- tion . F 2 " All " All the appearances of nature I was therefore careful ABISSINI A. 67.
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... Raffelas , the wife men , to whom we liften with reverence and wonder , chofe that mode of life for themselves which they thought most like- ly to make them happy . " VOL . I. I Very " Very few , faid the poet , live by ABISSINIA . 113.
... Raffelas , the wife men , to whom we liften with reverence and wonder , chofe that mode of life for themselves which they thought most like- ly to make them happy . " VOL . I. I Very " Very few , faid the poet , live by ABISSINIA . 113.
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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 8 - They then closed up the opening with marble, which was never to be removed but in the utmost exigencies of the kingdom ; and recorded their accumulations in a book, which was itself concealed in a tower, not entered but by the emperor, attended by the prince who stood next in succession.
Seite 41 - 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 14 - I can discover within me no power of perception which is not glutted with its proper pleasure, yet I do not feel myself delighted. 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 145 - ... consider the life of animals, whose motions are regulated by instinct; they obey their guide, and are happy. Let us therefore, at length, cease to dispute, and learn to live ; throw away the...
Seite 41 - I should with great alacrity teach them all to fly. 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...
Seite 137 - I do not now wonder that your reputation is so far extended. We have heard at Cairo of your wisdom, and came hither to implore your direction for this young man and maiden in the choice of life." "To him that lives well," answered the hermit, "every form of life is good ; nor can I give any other rule for choice, than to remove from all apparent evil.
Seite 4 - From the mountains on every side, rivulets descended that filled all the valley with verdure and fertility, and formed a lake in the middle inhabited by fish of every species, and frequented by every fowl whom nature has taught to dip the wing in water. This lake discharged its superfluities by a stream which entered a dark cleft of the mountain on the northern side, and fell with dreadful noise from precipice to precipice till it was heard no more.
Seite 13 - ... at rest. I am hungry and thirsty like him, but when thirst and hunger cease I am not at rest ; I am, like him, pained with want, but am not, like him, satisfied with fulness.
Seite 42 - In a year the wings were finished; and on a morning appointed the maker appeared furnished for flight on a little promontory. He waved his pinions a while to gather air, then leaped from his stand, and in an instant dropped into the lake. His wings, which were of no use in the air, sustained him in the water, and the prince drew him to land, half dead with terror and vexation.