The Prince of Abissinia: A Tale : in Two VolumesR. and J. Dodsley, ... and W. Johnston, 1759 - 165 Seiten |
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... poet to attend him in his apartment , and re- cite his verses a fecond time ; then entering into familiar talk , he thought himself happy in having found a man who knew the world fo well , and could fo fkilfully paint the fcenes of life ...
... poet to attend him in his apartment , and re- cite his verses a fecond time ; then entering into familiar talk , he thought himself happy in having found a man who knew the world fo well , and could fo fkilfully paint the fcenes of life ...
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... 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 • a a novelty ...
... 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 • a a novelty ...
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... and refinement . " I was defirous to add my name to this illuftrious fraternity . I read all the poets of Perfia and Arabia , and was able to VOL . I. F re- repeat by memory the volumes that are fufpended in the ABISSINIA : 65.
... and refinement . " I was defirous to add my name to this illuftrious fraternity . I read all the poets of Perfia and Arabia , and was able to VOL . I. F re- repeat by memory the volumes that are fufpended in the ABISSINIA : 65.
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... poet , I faw every thing with a new purpose ; my fphere of attention was fuddenly magnified : no kind of knowledge was to be overlooked . I ranged mountains and deferts for images and resemblances , and pictured upon my mind every tree ...
... poet , I faw every thing with a new purpose ; my fphere of attention was fuddenly magnified : no kind of knowledge was to be overlooked . I ranged mountains and deferts for images and resemblances , and pictured upon my mind every tree ...
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... poet nothing can be useless . Whatever is beautiful , and what- ever is dreadful , must be familiar to his imagination : he must be converfant with all that is awfully vaft or elegantly lit- tle . The plants of the garden , the ani ...
... poet nothing can be useless . Whatever is beautiful , and what- ever is dreadful , must be familiar to his imagination : he must be converfant with all that is awfully vaft or elegantly lit- tle . The plants of the garden , the ani ...
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Abiffinia affemblies againſt almoſt amuſe anſwered artiſt Baffa beafts becauſe Cairo cauſe ceaſe CHAP cloſe companions confidered converfation courſe curiofity daugh defign defire delight diſcovered diverfified eafily emperour eſcape evil faid Imlac faid Raffelas faid the prince fame father fearch fecurity feen felicity fhall fhewed fhould fide fifter filent fince firſt folitude fome fomething fometimes foon ftate ftill ftrength fucceffive fuch fuffer furely happineſs happy valley heard hermit himſelf hiſtory hope knowledge labour laft learned lefs liften live loft maſter ment mifery mind miſeries moſt mountains mufick muft muſt myſelf nature neceffary never obferved paffage paffed paffions palace Perfia perfue philofopher pleafed pleaſed pleaſure poffeffion prefent princeſs purpoſe raiſed reaſon refolved reft ſcheme ſhall ſhe ſpent ſtate ſtone ſtood ſtream ſuppoſe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe thou thought thouſand tion uſe vifit weary whofe whoſe wiſdom wiſh
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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.