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... continued a long time to display his powers ; for his poetry , says Plutarch , is a strumpet that affects sometimes the airs of a prude , but whose impudence cannot be forgiven by the people , and whose affected modesty is despised by ...
... continued a long time to display his powers ; for his poetry , says Plutarch , is a strumpet that affects sometimes the airs of a prude , but whose impudence cannot be forgiven by the people , and whose affected modesty is despised by ...
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... continued only by the perpetual discord of those that managed its affairs . This remedied the dishonour by preserving the equili- brium , and was kept always in action by eloquence and comedy . This is what in general may be drawn from ...
... continued only by the perpetual discord of those that managed its affairs . This remedied the dishonour by preserving the equili- brium , and was kept always in action by eloquence and comedy . This is what in general may be drawn from ...
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... continued the same ; and that long custom gave up one to the caprices of the poets , without supposing the other affected by them . This being once settled upon the authority of the ancients themselves , I am no longer surprised to see ...
... continued the same ; and that long custom gave up one to the caprices of the poets , without supposing the other affected by them . This being once settled upon the authority of the ancients themselves , I am no longer surprised to see ...
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... continued in Italy from the time of Augustus , long after the emperors . It was a public mischief , which contributed in some measure to the de- cay and ruin of the Roman empire . To have a due detestation of these licentious ...
... continued in Italy from the time of Augustus , long after the emperors . It was a public mischief , which contributed in some measure to the de- cay and ruin of the Roman empire . To have a due detestation of these licentious ...
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... continued to be pacified with some other prey . But this is only one of the innumerable artifices practised in the universal conspiracy of mankind against themselves ; every age and every condition indulges some darling fallacy ; every ...
... continued to be pacified with some other prey . But this is only one of the innumerable artifices practised in the universal conspiracy of mankind against themselves ; every age and every condition indulges some darling fallacy ; every ...
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Seite 354 - Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together.
Seite 390 - He who has nothing external that can divert him, must find pleasure in his own thoughts, and must conceive himself what he is not ; for who is pleased with what he is ? He then expatiates in boundless futurity, and culls from all imaginable conditions that which for the present moment he should most desire, amuses his desires with impossible enjoyments, and confers upon his pride unattainable dominion. The mind dances from scene to scene, unites all pleasures in all combinations, and riots in delights,...
Seite 309 - ... 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 297 - Sir," said he, •" you have seen but a small part of what the mechanic sciences ctn perform. I have been long of opinion, that instead of the tardy conveyance of ships and chariots, man might use the swifter migration of wings ; that the fields of air are open to knowledge, and that only ignorance and idleness need crawl upon the ground.
Seite 284 - 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 110 - The gates of hell are open night and day ; Smooth the descent, and easy is the way : But, to return, and view the cheerful skies — In this the task and mighty labour lies.
Seite 331 - Be not too hasty, said Imlac, to trust, or to admire, the teachers of morality : they discourse like angels, but they live like men.
Seite 283 - The only passage by which it could be entered was a cavern that passed under a rock, of which it has long been disputed whether it was the work of nature or of human industry.
Seite 389 - DISORDERS of intellect," answered Imlac, " happen much more often than superficial observers will easily believe. Perhaps, if we speak with rigorous exactness, no human mind is in its right state. There is no man, whose imagination does not sometimes predominate over his reason, who can regulate his attention wholly by his will, and whose ideas will come and go at his command.
Seite 330 - ... the various precepts given from time to time for the conquest of passion, and displayed the happiness of those who had obtained the important victory, after which man is no longer the slave of fear, nor the fool of hope ; is no more emaciated by envy, inflamed by anger, emasculated by...