The British Novelists: With an Essay, and Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volumen26F. C. and J. Rivington, 1820 |
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... pleased with their own condi- tion . The sages who instructed them told them of nothing but the miseries of public life , and de- scribed all beyond the mountains as regions of ca- lamity , where discord was always raging , and where ...
... pleased with their own condi- tion . The sages who instructed them told them of nothing but the miseries of public life , and de- scribed all beyond the mountains as regions of ca- lamity , where discord was always raging , and where ...
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... pleased with each other and with themselves , all but Rasselas , who , in the twenty - sixth year of his age , began to withdraw himself from their pastimes and assemblies , and to delight in soli- tary walks and silent meditation . He ...
... pleased with each other and with themselves , all but Rasselas , who , in the twenty - sixth year of his age , began to withdraw himself from their pastimes and assemblies , and to delight in soli- tary walks and silent meditation . He ...
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... pleased me yesterday weary me to- day , and will grow yet more wearisome to - morrow . 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 ...
... pleased me yesterday weary me to- day , and will grow yet more wearisome to - morrow . 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 ...
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... pleased only while they were new , and to become new again must be forgotten ? He then walked into the wood , and composed himself to his usual meditations ; when , before his thoughts had taken any settled form , he perceived his ...
... pleased only while they were new , and to become new again must be forgotten ? He then walked into the wood , and composed himself to his usual meditations ; when , before his thoughts had taken any settled form , he perceived his ...
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... pleased with the state of which he himself was weary . But pleasures never can be so multiplied or continued , as not to leave much of life unem- ployed : there were many hours , both of the night and day , which he could spend without ...
... pleased with the state of which he himself was weary . But pleasures never can be so multiplied or continued , as not to leave much of life unem- ployed : there were many hours , both of the night and day , which he could spend without ...
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Página 28 - 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 111 - ... intellectual gratifications are rejected; the mind, in weariness or leisure, recurs constantly to the favourite conception, and feasts on the luscious falsehood whenever she is offended with the bitterness of truth. By degrees the reign of fancy is confirmed; she grows first imperious, and in time despotic. Then fictions begin to operate as realities, false opinions fasten upon the mind, and life passes in dreams of rapture or of anguish.
Página 27 - 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.
Página 80 - 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 prevails, as far as human nature is diffused, could become universal only by its truth...
Página 111 - 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.
Página 114 - Praise," said the sage, with a sigh, " is to an old man an empty sound. I have neither mother to be delighted with the reputation of her son, nor wife to partake the honours of her husband. I have outlived my friends and my rivals. Nothing is now of much importance ; for I cannot extend my interest beyond myself. Youth is delighted with applause, because it is considered as the earnest of some future good, and because the prospect of life is far extended...
Página 2 - ... 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.
Página 1 - YE WHO listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope, who expect that age will perform the promises of youth and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow, attend to the history of Rasselas,1 prince of Abyssinia.
Página 106 - Hear, Imlac, what thou wilt not without difficulty credit. 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 fervors of the crab.
Página 18 - ... 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.