The Idler ; History of Rasselas, Prince of AbyssiniaF. C. and J. Rivington, 1823 - Authors, English |
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... hope to be gratified by this paper ; for the Idler is always inquisitive and seldom retentive . He that delights in obloquy and satire , and wishes to see clouds gathering over any reputation that dazzles him with its brightness , will ...
... hope to be gratified by this paper ; for the Idler is always inquisitive and seldom retentive . He that delights in obloquy and satire , and wishes to see clouds gathering over any reputation that dazzles him with its brightness , will ...
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... hope is not wholly to be cast away . The Idler , though sluggish , is yet alive , and may some- times be stimulated to vigour and activity . He may descend into profoundness , or tower into sublimity ; for the diligence of an Idler is ...
... hope is not wholly to be cast away . The Idler , though sluggish , is yet alive , and may some- times be stimulated to vigour and activity . He may descend into profoundness , or tower into sublimity ; for the diligence of an Idler is ...
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... of a fourth to complete the party . Of these ladies , some , I hope , have lap - dogs , and some monkies ; but they are unsatisfactory compa- nions . Many useful offices are performed by men of 18 N ° 5 . THE IDLER .
... of a fourth to complete the party . Of these ladies , some , I hope , have lap - dogs , and some monkies ; but they are unsatisfactory compa- nions . Many useful offices are performed by men of 18 N ° 5 . THE IDLER .
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... hope of deification , and antici- pated the altars that would be raised , and the vows that would be made , by future candidates for eques- trian glory , to the patroness of the race and the goddess of the stable . But fate reserved her ...
... hope of deification , and antici- pated the altars that would be raised , and the vows that would be made , by future candidates for eques- trian glory , to the patroness of the race and the goddess of the stable . But fate reserved her ...
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... hope . The toyman will not give his jewels , nor the mercer measure out his silks , for vegetable coin . A primrose , though picked up under the feet of the most renowned courser , will neither be received as a stake at cards , nor ...
... hope . The toyman will not give his jewels , nor the mercer measure out his silks , for vegetable coin . A primrose , though picked up under the feet of the most renowned courser , will neither be received as a stake at cards , nor ...
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amusement beauty believe Cape Finisterre censure common commonly considered critick curiosity danger delight desire diligence dinner Ditto dread Drugget easily easy endeavour enemies English epithalamium evil expected expence eyes favour fear fill folly fortune friends Friseur genius give gout hand happiness honour hope hour Hudibras human idleness Idler imagination innu inquiry Knights of Malta knowledge labour lady learned lest live look lost Louisbourg mankind marriage ment mind Minorca misery mistress morning nation nature necessary neral ness never Newmarket night NUMB observed once opinion pain passed passions perhaps Peterhouse pleased pleasure praise produce publick quired racter reason resolved rience Salisbury Plain SATURDAY scarcely seldom shew sometimes soon Sophron suffered supposed sure talk tell thing Thomas Warton thought tion told toyman truth virtue weary wife wish wonder writers
Popular passages
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.