The Prince of Abissinia: A TaleJ.F. and C. Rivington, J. Dodsley, T. Longman, and G. and T. Wilkie., 1790 - 304 Seiten |
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... most ancient poets are con- fidered as the best : whether it be that every other kind of knowledge is an acquifition gradually attained , and po- etry is a gift conferred at once ; or that the first poetry of every nation furprised them ...
... most ancient poets are con- fidered as the best : whether it be that every other kind of knowledge is an acquifition gradually attained , and po- etry is a gift conferred at once ; or that the first poetry of every nation furprised them ...
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... most striking objects for description , and the moft probable occurrences for fiction , and left no- thing to those that followed them , but tranfcription of the fame events , and new combinations of the fame images . Whatever be the ...
... most striking objects for description , and the moft probable occurrences for fiction , and left no- thing to those that followed them , but tranfcription of the fame events , and new combinations of the fame images . Whatever be the ...
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... they thought most likely to make them happy . " Very few , " faid the poet , " live by choice . Every man is placed in his prefent prefent condition by causes which acted without his forefight , PRINCE OF ABISSINIA . 109.
... they thought most likely to make them happy . " Very few , " faid the poet , " live by choice . Every man is placed in his prefent prefent condition by causes which acted without his forefight , PRINCE OF ABISSINIA . 109.
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... most dread- ful of all evils not to count their past years by follies , and to be reminded of their former luxuriance of health only by the maladies which riot has pro- duced . " They They ftared a while in filence one upon another ...
... most dread- ful of all evils not to count their past years by follies , and to be reminded of their former luxuriance of health only by the maladies which riot has pro- duced . " They They ftared a while in filence one upon another ...
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... " " He will remove most certainly from evil , " said the prince , " who fhall devote himself to that folitude which you have recommended by your example . " " I have " I have indeed lived fifteen years in folitude , 130 RASSEL AS ,
... " " He will remove most certainly from evil , " said the prince , " who fhall devote himself to that folitude which you have recommended by your example . " " I have " I have indeed lived fifteen years in folitude , 130 RASSEL AS ,
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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 133 - I have lost so much, and have gained so little. In solitude, if I escape the example of bad men, I want likewise the counsel and conversation of the good. I have been long comparing the evils with the advantages of society, and resolve to return into the world to-morrow. The life of a solitary man will be certainly miserable, but not certainly devout.
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 14 - 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 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 158 - ... which debars them from its privileges. To live without feeling or exciting sympathy, to be fortunate without adding to the felicity of others, or afflicted without tasting the balm of pity, is a state more gloomy than solitude : it is not retreat, but exclusion from mankind. Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
Seite 38 - But the exercise of swimming," said the prince, " is very laborious; the strongest limbs are soon wearied ; I am afraid the act of flying will be yet more violent, and wings will be of no great use, unless we can fly further than we can swim.
Seite 138 - Let them learn to be wise by easier means : let them observe the hind of the forest, and the linnet of the grove : let them consider the life of animals, whose motions are regulated, by instinct ; they obey their guide and are happy.
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 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.