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... sometimes upon one piece , and sometimes upon another . It is a structure which I have endeavoured to make as near to regularity as I could , and which must be seen in its full extent and in proper succession . The reader who skips here ...
... sometimes upon one piece , and sometimes upon another . It is a structure which I have endeavoured to make as near to regularity as I could , and which must be seen in its full extent and in proper succession . The reader who skips here ...
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... sometimes disguise the passions themselves , how much greater change will be made in jocularities ? The truth is , that they are so much changed by the course of time , that pleasantry and ridicule become dull and flat much more easily ...
... sometimes disguise the passions themselves , how much greater change will be made in jocularities ? The truth is , that they are so much changed by the course of time , that pleasantry and ridicule become dull and flat much more easily ...
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... sometimes upon the state , and upon the gods themselves . heads of this discourse . II . These considerations have determined The chief me to follow , in my representation of this writ- er , the same method which I have taken in several ...
... sometimes upon the state , and upon the gods themselves . heads of this discourse . II . These considerations have determined The chief me to follow , in my representation of this writ- er , the same method which I have taken in several ...
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... sometimes separately , sometimes together , from the view of each particular comedy , and from the re- flections which this free manner of writing will allow . I shall conclude with a short view of the whole , and so finish my design ...
... sometimes separately , sometimes together , from the view of each particular comedy , and from the re- flections which this free manner of writing will allow . I shall conclude with a short view of the whole , and so finish my design ...
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... sometimes obscure , perplexed and vulgar , and his frequent play with words , his oppositions of contra- dictory terms , his mixture of tragic and comic , of seri- ous and burlesque , are all flat ; and his jocularity , if you examine ...
... sometimes obscure , perplexed and vulgar , and his frequent play with words , his oppositions of contra- dictory terms , his mixture of tragic and comic , of seri- ous and burlesque , are all flat ; and his jocularity , if you examine ...
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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...