The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia: A TaleN. Hailes, 1824 - 150 Seiten |
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... began to withdraw himself from their pastimes and assemblies , and to delight in solitary walks and silent meditation . He often set before tables covered with luxury , and forgot to taste the dainties that were placed before him ; he ...
... began to withdraw himself from their pastimes and assemblies , and to delight in solitary walks and silent meditation . He often set before tables covered with luxury , and forgot to taste the dainties that were placed before him ; he ...
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... began to lament the change which had been lately observed in the prince , and to inquire why he so often retired from the pleasures of the palace , to loneliness and silence . " I fly from pleasure , " said the prince , " be- cause ...
... began to lament the change which had been lately observed in the prince , and to inquire why he so often retired from the pleasures of the palace , to loneliness and silence . " I fly from pleasure , " said the prince , " be- cause ...
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... began silently to despise riches , and determined to disap- point the purpose of my father , whose grossness of conception raised my pity . I was twenty years old before his tender- ness would expose me to the fatigue of travel , in ...
... began silently to despise riches , and determined to disap- point the purpose of my father , whose grossness of conception raised my pity . I was twenty years old before his tender- ness would expose me to the fatigue of travel , in ...
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... began to long for my native country , that I might repose after my travels and fatigues , in , the places where I had spent my earliest years , and gladden my old companions with the recital of my adventures . Often did I figure to ...
... began to long for my native country , that I might repose after my travels and fatigues , in , the places where I had spent my earliest years , and gladden my old companions with the recital of my adventures . Often did I figure to ...
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... began to go down on the other side . The princess and her maid turned their eyes towards every part , and , seeing no- thing to bound their prospect , considered themselves as in danger of being lost in a dreary vacuity . They stopped ...
... began to go down on the other side . The princess and her maid turned their eyes towards every part , and , seeing no- thing to bound their prospect , considered themselves as in danger of being lost in a dreary vacuity . They stopped ...
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Seite 11 - 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 28 - I will not undertake to maintain, against the concurrent and unvaried testimony of all ages, and of all nations. There is no people, rude or learned, among whom apparitions of the dead are not related and believed. This opinion, which perhaps prevails as far as human nature is diffused, could become universal only by its truth...
Seite 39 - The mind dances from scene to scene, unites all pleasures in all combinations, and riots in delights, which nature and fortune, with all their bounty, cannot bestow.
Seite 11 - He must divest himself of the prejudices of his age or country ; he must consider right and wrong in their abstracted and invariable state ; he must disregard present laws and opinions, and rise to general and transcendental truths, which will always be the same...
Seite 10 - Whatever be the reason, it is commonly observed that the early writers are in possession of nature, and their followers of art; that the first excel in strength and invention, and the latter in elegance and refinement.
Seite 6 - Nothing, replied the artist, will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must be first overcome. If you will favour my project, I will try the first flight at my own hazard. I have considered the structure of all volant animals, and find the folding continuity of the bat's wing most easily accommodated to the human form.
Seite 18 - He showed with great strength of sentiment, and variety of illustration, that human nature is degraded and debased, when the lower faculties predominate over the higher; that when fancy, the parent...
Seite 10 - And yet it fills me with wonder, that, in almost all countries, the most ancient poets are considered as the best: whether it be that every other kind of knowledge is an acquisition gradually attained, and poetry is a gift conferred at once; or that the first poetry of every nation surprised them as a novelty, and retained the credit by consent, which it received by accident at first; or whether, as the province of poetry is to describe Nature and Passion, which are always the same...
Seite 10 - 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 11 - They are more powerful, sir, than we,' answered Imlac, 'because they are wiser; knowledge will always predominate over ignorance, as man governs the other animals. But why their knowledge is more than ours, I know not what reason can be given but the unsearchable will of the Supreme Being.