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... kind of person- ages are clouds , frogs , wasps , and birds ? Plutarch , used to a comic stage of a very different appearance , must have thought them strange things ; and yet stranger must they appear to us , who have a newer kind of ...
... kind of person- ages are clouds , frogs , wasps , and birds ? Plutarch , used to a comic stage of a very different appearance , must have thought them strange things ; and yet stranger must they appear to us , who have a newer kind of ...
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... kind ; for the passions of Grecian heroes are often dressed in external modes of appearance that disgust us , yet they break through the veil when they are strongly mark- ed , as we cannot deny them to be in Eschylus , Sophocles , and ...
... kind ; for the passions of Grecian heroes are often dressed in external modes of appearance that disgust us , yet they break through the veil when they are strongly mark- ed , as we cannot deny them to be in Eschylus , Sophocles , and ...
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... kind of beauty , such as we are now treating , which depends upon times and places , and is therefore changeable . Such is the im- perfection of every thing below , that one mode of beau- ty is never found without a mixture of the other ...
... kind of beauty , such as we are now treating , which depends upon times and places , and is therefore changeable . Such is the im- perfection of every thing below , that one mode of beau- ty is never found without a mixture of the other ...
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... kind of wit . Prov- erbs and vulgar smartnesses can never be suffered , unless they have something in them of nature and pleasantry . This is the universal principle of comedy ; whatever is represented in this manner must please , and ...
... kind of wit . Prov- erbs and vulgar smartnesses can never be suffered , unless they have something in them of nature and pleasantry . This is the universal principle of comedy ; whatever is represented in this manner must please , and ...
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... kind of exhibition that would have its charms , if it was touched with elegance and without meanness ; it is the pastoral put into action . To conclude , the new comedy , invented by Menander , has produced the comedy properly so called ...
... kind of exhibition that would have its charms , if it was touched with elegance and without meanness ; it is the pastoral put into action . To conclude , the new comedy , invented by Menander , has produced the comedy properly so called ...
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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...