The Idler ; History of Rasselas, Prince of AbyssiniaF. C. and J. Rivington, 1823 - Authors, English |
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... believe myself to look , with more philosophic eyes on human affairs , must confess , that I saw the troops march with little emotion ; my thoughts were fixed upon other scenes , and the tear stole into my eyes , not for those who were ...
... believe myself to look , with more philosophic eyes on human affairs , must confess , that I saw the troops march with little emotion ; my thoughts were fixed upon other scenes , and the tear stole into my eyes , not for those who were ...
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... it reaches you . I believe you may find a motto for it in Horace , but I cannot reach him without getting out of my chair ; that is a sufficient reason for my not affixing any . — 34 N ° 9 . THE IDLER . Punch and conversation.
... it reaches you . I believe you may find a motto for it in Horace , but I cannot reach him without getting out of my chair ; that is a sufficient reason for my not affixing any . — 34 N ° 9 . THE IDLER . Punch and conversation.
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... believe , labour is necessary in his initiation to idleness . He that never labours may know the pains of idleness , but not the pleasure . The comfort is , that if he devotes himself to insen- sibility , he will daily lengthen the ...
... believe , labour is necessary in his initiation to idleness . He that never labours may know the pains of idleness , but not the pleasure . The comfort is , that if he devotes himself to insen- sibility , he will daily lengthen the ...
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... believe nothing that does not favour those whom they profess to follow . The bigot of philosophy is seduced by authorities which he has not always opportunities to examine , is entangled in systems by which truth and falsehood are ...
... believe nothing that does not favour those whom they profess to follow . The bigot of philosophy is seduced by authorities which he has not always opportunities to examine , is entangled in systems by which truth and falsehood are ...
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... believe that the Nonjurors are so quiet for nothing , they must certainly be forming some plot for the establishment of Popery ; he does not think the present oaths sufficiently binding , and wishes that some better security could be ...
... believe that the Nonjurors are so quiet for nothing , they must certainly be forming some plot for the establishment of Popery ; he does not think the present oaths sufficiently binding , and wishes that some better security could be ...
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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.