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... hands , was sure to claim the approbation of the public . He had a mind too extensive to be subjected to rules , or restrained by limits . For that reason he gave himself up to his GREEK COM ongs , on which he could When he wrote , he ...
... hands , was sure to claim the approbation of the public . He had a mind too extensive to be subjected to rules , or restrained by limits . For that reason he gave himself up to his GREEK COM ongs , on which he could When he wrote , he ...
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... hands all the plays of Aristophanes , which were at least fifty in number . In these he saw more licentiousness than has come to our hands , though in the eleven that are still remaining , there is much more than could be wished ...
... hands all the plays of Aristophanes , which were at least fifty in number . In these he saw more licentiousness than has come to our hands , though in the eleven that are still remaining , there is much more than could be wished ...
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... hands ? And have we not seen some like Timon the Manhater , that have been successful in this way ? This sort chiefly regards the Italians . The ancient ex-- hibition called a satyre , because the satyrs played their part in it , of ...
... hands ? And have we not seen some like Timon the Manhater , that have been successful in this way ? This sort chiefly regards the Italians . The ancient ex-- hibition called a satyre , because the satyrs played their part in it , of ...
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... hand , and some to the exercise of the mind ; has commanded some to teach , and others to learn ; has prescribed to some the patience of instruction , and to others the meek- ness of obedience . By what methods the unenlightened and ...
... hand , and some to the exercise of the mind ; has commanded some to teach , and others to learn ; has prescribed to some the patience of instruction , and to others the meek- ness of obedience . By what methods the unenlightened and ...
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... hands of the people , and confined the liberty of perusing it to those whom literature has previously qualified . By this expedient they have formed a kind of uniformity , I am afraid too much like that of colours in the dark ; but they ...
... hands of the people , and confined the liberty of perusing it to those whom literature has previously qualified . By this expedient they have formed a kind of uniformity , I am afraid too much like that of colours in the dark ; but they ...
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Página 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.
Página 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,...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...