The prince of Abissinia [by S. Johnson].1783 |
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Página 64
... most ancient poets are con- fidered as the beft : whether it be that every other kind of knowledge is an ac- quifition gradually attained , and poetry is a gift conferred at once ; or that the first poetry of every nation surprised them ...
... most ancient poets are con- fidered as the beft : whether it be that every other kind of knowledge is an ac- quifition gradually attained , and poetry is a gift conferred at once ; or that the first poetry of every nation surprised them ...
Página 65
... most striking objects for description , and the most probable occurrences for fic- tion , and left nothing to thofe that fol lowed them , but tranfcription of the fame events , and new combinations of the fame images . Whatever be the ...
... most striking objects for description , and the most probable occurrences for fic- tion , and left nothing to thofe that fol lowed them , but tranfcription of the fame events , and new combinations of the fame images . Whatever be the ...
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... most likely to make them happy . " " Very few , faid the poet , live by choice . Every man is placed in his pre- fent condition by caufes which acted without his forefight , and with which he he did not always willingly co - operate ...
... most likely to make them happy . " " Very few , faid the poet , live by choice . Every man is placed in his pre- fent condition by caufes which acted without his forefight , and with which he he did not always willingly co - operate ...
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... most dreadful of all evils not to count their past years by follies , and to be reminded of their for- mer luxuriance of health only by the- maladies which riot has produced . " . They ftared a while in filence one- upon another , and ...
... most dreadful of all evils not to count their past years by follies , and to be reminded of their for- mer luxuriance of health only by the- maladies which riot has produced . " . They ftared a while in filence one- upon another , and ...
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... " " He will remove most certainly from evil , faid the prince , who fhall devote himself to that folitude which you have recommended by your example . " A " I have " I have indeed lived fifteen years in folitude , 130 RASSELAS ,
... " " He will remove most certainly from evil , faid the prince , who fhall devote himself to that folitude which you have recommended by your example . " A " I have " I have indeed lived fifteen years in folitude , 130 RASSELAS ,
Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 13 - The intermediate hours are tedious and gloomy ; I long again to be hungry, that I may again quicken my attention. The birds peck the berries or the corn, and fly away to the groves, where they sit in seeming happiness on the branches, and waste their lives in tuning one unvaried series of sounds.
Página 68 - 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 42 - 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 69 - 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.
Página 15 - With observations like these the prince amused himself as he returned, uttering them with a plaintive voice yet with a look that discovered him to feel some complacence in his own perspicacity, and to receive some solace of the miseries of life from consciousness of the delicacy with which he felt and the eloquence with which he bewailed them. He mingled...
Página 4 - 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 52 - Inconsistencies," answered Imlac, "cannot both be right, but imputed to man they may both be true.
Página 66 - Being now resolved to be a poet, I saw every thing with a new purpose; my sphere 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 139 - To live according to nature, is to act always with due regard to the fitness arising from the relations and qualities of causes and effects ; to concur with the great and unchangeable scheme of universal felicity ; to co-operate with the general disposition and tendency of the present system of things.
Página 190 - This opinion, which, perhaps, prevails as far as human nature is diffused, could become universal only by its truth: those that never heard of one another would not have agreed in a tale which nothing but experience can make credible. That it is doubted by single cavillers can very little weaken the general evidence, and some who deny it with their tongues, confess it by their fears.