The Idler ; History of Rasselas, Prince of AbyssiniaF. C. and J. Rivington, 1823 - Authors, English |
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... tell on whom they will light , and therefore none are unwilling to bestow them . He that is known to contribute to a periodical work , needs no other caution than not to tell what particular pieces are his own ; such secrecy is indeed ...
... tell on whom they will light , and therefore none are unwilling to bestow them . He that is known to contribute to a periodical work , needs no other caution than not to tell what particular pieces are his own ; such secrecy is indeed ...
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... tell by whom it will be found . No- thing is now left for the poet but character and sen- timent , which are to make their way as they can , without the soft anxiety of suspense , or the enliven- ing agitation of surprize . A new paper ...
... tell by whom it will be found . No- thing is now left for the poet but character and sen- timent , which are to make their way as they can , without the soft anxiety of suspense , or the enliven- ing agitation of surprize . A new paper ...
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... tell how long , in the pathless desarts of the Isle of Wight . The tender sigh for their sufferings , and the gay drink to their success . I , who look , or believe myself to look , with more philosophic eyes on human affairs , must ...
... tell how long , in the pathless desarts of the Isle of Wight . The tender sigh for their sufferings , and the gay drink to their success . I , who look , or believe myself to look , with more philosophic eyes on human affairs , must ...
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... tell the grand - daughters of our grand - daughters what an English maiden has once performed . As events , however illustrious , are soon obscured if they are intrusted to tradition , I think it necessary , that the pedestal should be ...
... tell the grand - daughters of our grand - daughters what an English maiden has once performed . As events , however illustrious , are soon obscured if they are intrusted to tradition , I think it necessary , that the pedestal should be ...
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... tell of a conspiracy ; and some will congratulate themselves on their acuter penetration , and find , that all these notions of patriotism and pub- lick spirit are improbable and chimerical ; they will confidently tell , that she only ...
... tell of a conspiracy ; and some will congratulate themselves on their acuter penetration , and find , that all these notions of patriotism and pub- lick spirit are improbable and chimerical ; they will confidently tell , that she only ...
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Page 294 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us — And that there is, all nature cries aloud Through all her works — He must delight in virtue; And that which He delights in must be happy.
Page 544 - The prince desired a little kingdom, in which he might administer justice in his own person and see all the parts of government with his own eyes; but he could never fix the limits of his dominion, and was always adding to the number of his subjects. Imlac and the astronomer were contented to be driven along the stream of life without directing their course to any particular port.
Page 313 - The Italian, attends only to the invariable, the great and general ; ideas which are fixed and inherent in universal nature; the Dutch, on the contrary, to literal truth and a minute exactness in the detail, as I may say, of nature modified by accident. The attention to these petty peculiarities is the very cause of this naturalness so much admired in the Dutch pictures, which, if we suppose it to be a beauty, is certainly...
Page 420 - Nothing, replied the artist, will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must be first overcome. If you will favour my project, I will try the first flight at my own hazard. I have considered the structure of all volant animals, and find the folding continuity of the bat's wing most easily accommodated to the human form.
Page 425 - My father, proceeded Imlac, originally intended that I should have no other education than such as might qualify me for commerce; and discovering in me great strength of memory, and quickness of apprehension, often declared his hope that I should be some time the richest man in Abissiuia.
Page 402 - Johnson wrote it, that with the profits he might defray the expense of his mother's funeral, and pay some little debts which she had left. He told Sir Joshua Reynolds, that he composed it in the evenings of one week ; sent it to the press in portions as it was written, and had never since read it orer. 1 Mr. Strahan, Mr. Johnston, and Mr. Dodsley, purchased it for a hundred pounds ; but afterwards paid him twentyfive pounds more, when it came to a second edition.
Page 523 - The mind dances from scene to scene, unites all pleasures in all combinations, and riots in delights which nature and fortune, with all their bounty, cannot bestow.
Page 463 - My fancy riots in scenes of folly, and I lament that 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.
Page 437 - AM not yet willing, said the prince, to suppose that happiness is so parsimoniously distributed to mortals; nor can believe but that, if I had the choice of life, I should be able to fill every day with pleasure. I would injure no man, and should provoke no resentment: I would relieve every distress, and should enjoy the benedictions of gratitude. I would choose my friends among the wise, and my wife among the virtuous; and therefore should be in no danger from treachery, or unkindness. My children...
Page 523 - By degrees the reign of fancy is confirmed ; she grows first imperious, and in time despotic: then fictions begin to operate as realities, false opinions fasten upon the mind, and life passes in dreams of rapture or of anguish.