The history of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia. The vision of Theodore. The apotheosis of Milton. Prayers and devotional exercises. Apophthegms, sentiments, opinions and occasional reflections. Irene. Poems. Miscellaneous poems. PoemataJ. Buckland, J. Rivington and Sons, T. Payne and Sons, L. Davis, B. White and Son ... [and 36 others in London], 1787 |
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17. oldal
... shall arrive at a region where the man will float in the air without any tendency to fall : no care will then be neceffary but to move forwards , which the gentlest impulse will effect . You , Sir , whofe curiofity is fo extensive ...
... shall arrive at a region where the man will float in the air without any tendency to fall : no care will then be neceffary but to move forwards , which the gentlest impulse will effect . You , Sir , whofe curiofity is fo extensive ...
18. oldal
... But I will work only on this condition , that the art fhall not be divulged , and that you shall not require me to make wings for any but ourselves . " << Why , " Why , faid Raffelas , fhould you envy others 18 RASSEL AS ,
... But I will work only on this condition , that the art fhall not be divulged , and that you shall not require me to make wings for any but ourselves . " << Why , " Why , faid Raffelas , fhould you envy others 18 RASSEL AS ,
35. oldal
... shall find many advantages on the fide of the Europeans . They cure wounds and difeafes with which we languish and perish . We suffer incle- mencies of weather which they can obviate . They have engines for the dispatch of many ...
... shall find many advantages on the fide of the Europeans . They cure wounds and difeafes with which we languish and perish . We suffer incle- mencies of weather which they can obviate . They have engines for the dispatch of many ...
39. oldal
... shall speak the truth ; I know not one of all your attendants who does not lament the hour when he entered this re- treat . I am less unhappy than the reft , because I have a mind replete with images , which I can vary and combine at ...
... shall speak the truth ; I know not one of all your attendants who does not lament the hour when he entered this re- treat . I am less unhappy than the reft , because I have a mind replete with images , which I can vary and combine at ...
48. oldal
... shall defire to know ; you will fee all the con- ditions of humanity , and enable yourself at leifure to make your choice of life . They now entered the town , ftunned by the noise , and offended by the crowds . Instruction had noť yet ...
... shall defire to know ; you will fee all the con- ditions of humanity , and enable yourself at leifure to make your choice of life . They now entered the town , ftunned by the noise , and offended by the crowds . Instruction had noť yet ...
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338. oldal - His fall was destined to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious hand ; He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
19. oldal - 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.
122. oldal - In time, some particular train of ideas fixes the attention; all other intellectual gratifications are rejected ; the mind, in weariness or leisure, recurs constantly to the favourite conception, and feasts on the luscious falsehood whenever she is offended with the bitterness of truth.
29. oldal - And yet it fills me with wonder, that, in almost all countries, the most ancient poets are considered as the best : whether it be that every other kind of knowledge is an acquisition gradually attained, and poetry is a gift conferred at once ; or that the first poetry of every nation surprised...
334. oldal - In full-blown dignity, see Wolsey stand, Law in his voice, and fortune in his hand : To him the church, the realm, their pow'rs consign. Through him the rays of regal bounty shine, Turn'd by his nod the stream of honour flows, His smile alone security bestows...
5. oldal - ... discord was always raging, and where man preyed upon man. To heighten their opinion of their own felicity, they were daily entertained with songs, the subject of which was the happy valley.
326. oldal - This, only this, provokes the snarling Muse. The sober trader at a tatter'd cloak Wakes from his dream, and labours for a joke; With brisker air the silken courtiers gaze, And turn the varied taunt a thousand ways.
61. oldal - I do not now wonder that your reputation is so far extended ; we have heard at Cairo of your wisdom, and came hither to implore your direction for this young man and maiden in the choice of life " " To him that lives well, answered the hermit, every form of life is good ; nor can I give any other rule for choice, than to remove from all apparent evil." " He will remove most certainly from evil, said the prince, who shall devote himself to that solitude which you have recommended by your example.
334. oldal - To better features yields the frame of gold; For now no more we trace in ev'ry line Heroic worth, benevolence divine: The form distorted justifies the fall, And Detestation rids th
17. oldal - 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.