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... desire . ' He was very covetous , and was pictured with his fingers hooked , so that he set He lived about a hundred years , Many tales are told of his death ; his comedies at a high price . some say a hundred and one . Valerius Maximus ...
... desire . ' He was very covetous , and was pictured with his fingers hooked , so that he set He lived about a hundred years , Many tales are told of his death ; his comedies at a high price . some say a hundred and one . Valerius Maximus ...
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... desire which " he had to delight the people by exposing worthy " characters upon the stage , made him at the same " time an unworthy man ; and the turn of his genius " to ridicule was disfigured and corrupted by the in- delicacy and ...
... desire which " he had to delight the people by exposing worthy " characters upon the stage , made him at the same " time an unworthy man ; and the turn of his genius " to ridicule was disfigured and corrupted by the in- delicacy and ...
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... desire of novelty did not in time make us weary of that which we have too frequently admired . Those who have endeavoured to render their judg- ment independant upon manners and customs , and of such men there have been always some ...
... desire of novelty did not in time make us weary of that which we have too frequently admired . Those who have endeavoured to render their judg- ment independant upon manners and customs , and of such men there have been always some ...
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... desire ; every thing is limited , and the mind of man like every thing else . Besides , invention must be in conformity to nature ; but distinct and remarkable characters are very rare in nature herself . Moliere has got hold on the ...
... desire ; every thing is limited , and the mind of man like every thing else . Besides , invention must be in conformity to nature ; but distinct and remarkable characters are very rare in nature herself . Moliere has got hold on the ...
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... desires fuller in- structions may read Vossius , Valois , Saumaises , and Gataker , of whose compilations , however learned , I should think it shame to be the author . The Mimi had their original from comedy , of which at its first ...
... desires fuller in- structions may read Vossius , Valois , Saumaises , and Gataker , of whose compilations , however learned , I should think it shame to be the author . The Mimi had their original from comedy , of which at its first ...
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ADVENTURER amuse ancient appear Aristophanes Athens Banquo beauty censure CHAP character comedy common considered danger delight desire died hereafter discovered easily elegance endeavoured equally Eupolis Euripides evil expected eyes favour fear felicity folly fortune friends gain genius give gratified Greek comedy happiness happy valley honour hope hour human imagine Imlac inquire kayah kind knowledge labour learned less likewise live look Macbeth mankind manner Menander ment mind misery Moliere nature Nekayah ness never observed once opinion passage passed passions Pekuah perhaps perpetual phanes Plautus pleased pleasure Plutarch poet praise present prince PRINCE OF ABISSINIA princess racter Rasselas reader reason rest scarcely scene sentiments Serenus Shakespeare shew Socrates solitude sometimes success suffered supposed surely taste Theocritus thing thou thought Tibullus tion tragedy truth ulmo virtue writers
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Page 98 - Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full Of direst cruelty...
Page 130 - She should have died hereafter ; There would have been a time for such a word. To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time, And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death.
Page 299 - YE who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope ; who expect that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow ; attend to the history of Rasselas, prince of Abyssinia.
Page 329 - But the knowledge of nature is only half the task of a poet; he must be acquainted likewise with all the modes of life. His character requires that he estimate the happiness and misery of every condition; observe the power of all the passions in all their combinations, and trace the changes of the human mind as they are modified by various institutions and accidental influences of climate or custom, from the spriteliness of infancy to the despondence of decrepitude.
Page 149 - Just in the gate, and in the jaws of hell, Revengeful Cares and sullen Sorrows dwell, And pale Diseases, and repining Age, Want, Fear, and Famine's unresisted rage; Here Toils, and Death, and Death's half-brother, Sleep, (Forms terrible to view) their sentry keep; With anxious Pleasures of a guilty mind, Deep Frauds before, and open Force behind; The Furies' iron beds; and Strife, that shakes Her hissing tresses, and unfolds her snakes.
Page 353 - I have found, said the prince, at his return to Imlac, a man who can teach all that is necessary to be known, who, from the unshaken throne of rational fortitude, looks down on the scenes of life changing beneath him. He speaks, and attention watches his lips. He reasons, and conviction closes his periods. This man shall be my future guide: I will learn his doctrines, and imitate his life." "Be not too hasty, said Imlac, to trust, or to admire, the teachers of morality: they discourse like angels,...
Page 98 - Than wishest should be undone. Hie thee hither, That I may pour my spirits in thine ear; And chastise with the valour of my tongue All that impedes thee from the golden round, Which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem To have thee crown'd withal.
Page 360 - ... sometimes ashamed to think that I could not secure myself from vice, but by retiring from the exercise of virtue, and begin to suspect that I was rather impelled by resentment than led by devotion into solitude. 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...
Page 121 - Fillet of a fenny snake, In the cauldron boil and bake; Eye of newt and toe of frog, Wool of bat and tongue of dog, Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg and howlet's wing, For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.
Page 442 - 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.