Dissertation on Greek comedy fr. Brumoy. Observations on Macbeth. Adventurer. RasselasNichols and Son, 1801 |
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... kayah . I have been lately convinced that quiet is not the daughter of grandeur , or of power : that her prefence is not to be bought by wealth , nor en- forced by conqueft . It is evident , that as any man acts in a wider compafs , he ...
... kayah . I have been lately convinced that quiet is not the daughter of grandeur , or of power : that her prefence is not to be bought by wealth , nor en- forced by conqueft . It is evident , that as any man acts in a wider compafs , he ...
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... kayah , is not my care , and needs not be yours . I fee no danger that the prefent generation fhould omit to leave fucceffors behind them : we are not now in- quiring for the world , but for ourselves , " CHAP . XXIX . THE DEBATE ON ...
... kayah , is not my care , and needs not be yours . I fee no danger that the prefent generation fhould omit to leave fucceffors behind them : we are not now in- quiring for the world , but for ourselves , " CHAP . XXIX . THE DEBATE ON ...
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... kayah , when others imagined me contemplating the fky . Soon after the Arab went upon another expe- dition , and then my only pleafure was to talk with my maids about the accident by which we were car- ried away , and the happinefs that ...
... kayah , when others imagined me contemplating the fky . Soon after the Arab went upon another expe- dition , and then my only pleafure was to talk with my maids about the accident by which we were car- ried away , and the happinefs that ...
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... hopes . " Raffelas then entered with the princefs and Pe- kuah , and inquired , whether they had contrived any new diverfion for the next day ? " Such , faid Ne- kayah , kayah , is the ftate of life , that none 432 RASSELAS ,
... hopes . " Raffelas then entered with the princefs and Pe- kuah , and inquired , whether they had contrived any new diverfion for the next day ? " Such , faid Ne- kayah , kayah , is the ftate of life , that none 432 RASSELAS ,
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Samuel Johnson. kayah , is the ftate of life , that none are happy but by the anticipation of change : the change itfelf is nothing when we have made it , the next wifh is to change again . The world is not yet exhaufted ; let me fee ...
Samuel Johnson. kayah , is the ftate of life , that none are happy but by the anticipation of change : the change itfelf is nothing when we have made it , the next wifh is to change again . The world is not yet exhaufted ; let me fee ...
Términos y frases comunes
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Página 317 - 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.
Página 329 - 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.
Página 316 - Nile through all his passage; pass over to distant regions, and examine the face of nature from one extremity of the earth to the other!
Página 305 - 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.
Página 389 - Whoever thou art that, not content with a moderate condition, imaginest happiness in royal magnificence, and dreamest that command or riches can feed the appetite of novelty with perpetual gratifications, survey the Pyramids, and confess thy folly!
Página 95 - Implored your highness' pardon and set forth A deep repentance: nothing in his life Became him like the leaving it; he died As one that had been studied in his death, To throw away the dearest thing he owed As 'twere a careless trifle.
Página 378 - ... after conformity of opinions, similarity of manners, rectitude of judgment, or purity of sentiment?
Página 89 - Tiger: But in a sieve I'll thither sail, And, like a rat without a tail, I'll do, I'll do, and I'll do.
Página 441 - ... to found a college of learned women, in which she would preside, that by conversing with the old, and educating the young, she might divide her time between the acquisition and communication of wisdom, and raise up for the next age models of prudence, and patterns of piety.
Página 415 - I have possessed for five years the regulation of the weather, and the distribution of the seasons ; the sun has listened to my dictates, and passed from tropic to tropic by my direction ; the clouds, at my call, have poured their waters, and the Nile has overflowed at my command ; I have restrained the rage of the dog-star, and mitigated the fervours of the crab.