The Prince of Abissinia: A TaleJ.F. and C. Rivington, J. Dodsley, T. Longman, and G. and T. Wilkie., 1790 - 304 páginas |
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... effect of longer experience could not be known . Thus every year produced new fchemes of delight , and new competitors for im- prifonment . The palace ftood on an eminence raised about thirty paces above the fur- face face of the lake ...
... effect of longer experience could not be known . Thus every year produced new fchemes of delight , and new competitors for im- prifonment . The palace ftood on an eminence raised about thirty paces above the fur- face face of the lake ...
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... effect that which it was very easy to suppose effected . When he looked round about him , he faw himself confined by the bars of na- ture which had never yet been broken , and by the gate , through which none that once had paffed it ...
... effect that which it was very easy to suppose effected . When he looked round about him , he faw himself confined by the bars of na- ture which had never yet been broken , and by the gate , through which none that once had paffed it ...
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... effect . You , Sir , whofe curiofity is fo extenfive , will eafily conceive with what pleafure a philofopher , furnished with wings , and hovering in the fky , would fee the earth , and all its inhabitants , rolling beneath beneath him ...
... effect . You , Sir , whofe curiofity is fo extenfive , will eafily conceive with what pleafure a philofopher , furnished with wings , and hovering in the fky , would fee the earth , and all its inhabitants , rolling beneath beneath him ...
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... effect of virtue animated by youth the time will come when you will acquit your father , and per- haps hear with lefs impatience of the governour . Oppreffion is , in the Abif- finian dominions , neither frequent nor tolerated ; but no ...
... effect of virtue animated by youth the time will come when you will acquit your father , and per- haps hear with lefs impatience of the governour . Oppreffion is , in the Abif- finian dominions , neither frequent nor tolerated ; but no ...
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... effect of knowledge ? Are those nations happier than we ? " " There is fo much infelicity , " faid the poet , " in the world , that scarce any man has leifure from his own diftreffes to estimate the comparative happiness of others ...
... effect of knowledge ? Are those nations happier than we ? " " There is fo much infelicity , " faid the poet , " in the world , that scarce any man has leifure from his own diftreffes to estimate the comparative happiness of others ...
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Abiffinia againſt almoſt amuſe anſwered Arab Baffa becauſe buſineſs Cairo caufe cauſe ceaſe CHAP confidered converfation courſe curiofity defire delight diſcover diſtance eafily eſcape evil fage faid Imlac faid Nekayah faid Raffelas faid the prince fame fearch fecurity feen fhall fhewed fhort fide filent fince fingle firſt folitude fome fomething fometimes foon forrow friendſhip ftate ftill ftream fubject fuch fuffer fupplied fuppofed furely happineſs happy valley herſelf himſelf hope houſe inftruct itſelf knowledge labour laft laſt learned lefs loft marriage ment mifery mind moft moſt muft muſt myſelf nature neceffary nefs never Nile obferved paffed paffions Pekuah perfue pleafed pleaſed pleaſure poffeffion prefent princefs purpoſe pyramid raiſed reafon refolved reft refuſed ſaid ſchemes ſhall ſhe ſhould ſpent ſtate ſtay ſuppoſe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe thought thouſand tion uſe vifit weary whofe whoſe wiſdom yourſelf
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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 133 - I have lost so much, and have gained so little. In solitude, if I escape the example of bad men, I want likewise the counsel and conversation of the good. I have been long comparing the evils with the advantages of society, and resolve to return into the world to-morrow. The life of a solitary man will be certainly miserable, but not certainly devout.
Página 41 - I should with great alacrity teach them all to fly. 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...
Página 14 - Man surely has some latent sense for which this place affords no gratification, or he has some desires distinct from sense which must be satisfied before he can be happy.
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 158 - ... which debars them from its privileges. To live without feeling or exciting sympathy, to be fortunate without adding to the felicity of others, or afflicted without tasting the balm of pity, is a state more gloomy than solitude : it is not retreat, but exclusion from mankind. Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
Página 38 - But the exercise of swimming," said the prince, " is very laborious; the strongest limbs are soon wearied ; I am afraid the act of flying will be yet more violent, and wings will be of no great use, unless we can fly further than we can swim.
Página 138 - Let them learn to be wise by easier means : let them observe the hind of the forest, and the linnet of the grove : let them consider the life of animals, whose motions are regulated, by instinct ; they obey their guide and are happy.
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 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.