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... tion . Nothing is different but the object , which is mere- ly ridicule . This original of true comedy will be easily admitted , if we take the word of Horace , who must have known better than us the true dates of dramatic works . This ...
... tion . Nothing is different but the object , which is mere- ly ridicule . This original of true comedy will be easily admitted , if we take the word of Horace , who must have known better than us the true dates of dramatic works . This ...
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... tion , at least after we have heard the moderns before him . This is then the sum of his judgment concern- ing Aristophanes and Menander . To Menander he gives the preference , without allowing much competition . He objects to ...
... tion , at least after we have heard the moderns before him . This is then the sum of his judgment concern- ing Aristophanes and Menander . To Menander he gives the preference , without allowing much competition . He objects to ...
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Samuel Johnson. tion to which no other writer has arrived . For , what man besides himself , has ever found the art of making a diction equally suitable to women and children , to old and young , to divinities and heroes ? Now Menander ...
Samuel Johnson. tion to which no other writer has arrived . For , what man besides himself , has ever found the art of making a diction equally suitable to women and children , to old and young , to divinities and heroes ? Now Menander ...
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... tion of Aristo phanes . that it would be better to bury for ever the memory of so hateful a writer , that makes us so poor a recom- pense for the loss of Menander , who cannot be recall- ed . But , without showing any mercy to the ...
... tion of Aristo phanes . that it would be better to bury for ever the memory of so hateful a writer , that makes us so poor a recom- pense for the loss of Menander , who cannot be recall- ed . But , without showing any mercy to the ...
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... tion , so as to attire herself gracefully in magnificent ap- parel . In her manners she mingles elegance with foolery , force with delicacy , and grandeur , or even haughtiness , with plainness and modesty . If sometimes , to please the ...
... tion , so as to attire herself gracefully in magnificent ap- parel . In her manners she mingles elegance with foolery , force with delicacy , and grandeur , or even haughtiness , with plainness and modesty . If sometimes , to please the ...
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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...