Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and DenmarkJ. Johnson, 1802 - 262 oldal |
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97. oldal - ... it appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and sorrow, should only be organized dust — ready to fly abroad the moment the spring snaps, or the spark goes out, which kept it together. Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable — and life is more than a dream.
94. oldal - I not gazed — and gazed again, losing my breath through my eyes — my very soul diffused itself in the scene — and, seeming to become all senses, glided in the scarcely-agitated waves, melted in the freshening breeze...
15. oldal - I have then considered myself as a particle broken off from the grand mass of mankind;— I was alone, till some involuntary sympathetic emotion, like the attraction of adhesion, made me feel that I was still a part of a mighty whole, from which I could not sever myself...
71. oldal - Nature is the nurse of sentiment,— the true source of taste; — yet what misery, as well as rapture, is produced by a quick perception of the beautiful and sublime, when it is exercised in observing animated nature, when every beauteous feeling and emotion excites responsive sympathy, and the harmonized soul sinks into melancholy, or rises to ecstasy, just as the chords are touched, like the aeolian harp agitated by the changing wind.
214. oldal - ... superiors, and men jilted by their inferiors: rank and manners awe the one, and cunning and wantonness subjugate the other; ambition creeping into the woman's passion, and tyranny giving force to the man's, for most men treat their mistresses as kings do their favourites: ergo is not man then the tyrant of the creation?
170. oldal - England and America owe their liberty to commerce, which created a new species of power to undermine the feudal system. But let them beware of the consequence ; the tyranny of wealth is still more galling and debasing than that of rank.
215. oldal - ... have never noticed in any other country. The days of courtship are, therefore, prolonged till it be perfectly convenient to marry: the intimacy often becomes very tender; and if the lover obtain the privilege of a husband, it can only be termed half by stealth, because the family is wilfully blind. It happens very rarely that these honorary engagements...
14. oldal - I contemplated all nature at rest; the rocks, even grown darker in their appearance, looked as if they partook of the general repose, and reclined more heavily on their foundation. — What, I exclaimed, is this active principle which keeps me still awake?
241. oldal - ... that it is the preservation of the species, not of individuals, which appears to be the design of the Deity throughout the whole of nature. Blossoms come forth only to be blighted; fish lay their spawn where it will be devoured: and what a large portion of the human race are born merely to be swept prematurely away. Does not this waste of budding life...
66. oldal - I feel more than a mother's fondness and anxiety when I reflect on the dependent and oppressed state of her sex. I dread lest she should be forced to sacrifice her heart to her principles, or principles to her heart.