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Pagina 12
... question could only be answered by general apologies and by new hopes , which , when they were frustrated , gave a new occasion to the same vexatious inquiry . This fatal question has disturbed the quiet of many other minds . He that in ...
... question could only be answered by general apologies and by new hopes , which , when they were frustrated , gave a new occasion to the same vexatious inquiry . This fatal question has disturbed the quiet of many other minds . He that in ...
Pagina 14
... fear- ing or in suffering calamities , is a question which philosophers have long asked , and which philose- phy could never answer . Religion informs us that misery and sin were produced together 14 N ° 89 . THE IDLER .
... fear- ing or in suffering calamities , is a question which philosophers have long asked , and which philose- phy could never answer . Religion informs us that misery and sin were produced together 14 N ° 89 . THE IDLER .
Pagina 26
... question . What he has no inclination to answer , he pretends some- times not to hear , and endeavours to divert the in- quirer's attention by some other subject ; but if he be pressed hard by repeated interrogation , het always evades ...
... question . What he has no inclination to answer , he pretends some- times not to hear , and endeavours to divert the in- quirer's attention by some other subject ; but if he be pressed hard by repeated interrogation , het always evades ...
Pagina 58
... questions , and was commanded to stand at the footstool of the calif . I was heard with attention , I was consulted with confidence , and the love of praise fastened on my heart . I still wished to see distant countries , listened with ...
... questions , and was commanded to stand at the footstool of the calif . I was heard with attention , I was consulted with confidence , and the love of praise fastened on my heart . I still wished to see distant countries , listened with ...
Pagina 68
... question which I cannot answer , though I am reckoned the most subtle bird of the mountain . When I was young , I used frequently to visit the ayry of an old vulture , who dwelt jupon the Carpathian rocks ; he had made many obser ...
... question which I cannot answer , though I am reckoned the most subtle bird of the mountain . When I was young , I used frequently to visit the ayry of an old vulture , who dwelt jupon the Carpathian rocks ; he had made many obser ...
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afford ancient appearance Arthur Johnston better Boethius Boswell castle cattle chief church CITATION clan commonly considered curiosity danger delight diligence domestick Dunvegan Earse easily elegant English equal Essay evil expected Fort Augustus Francis Peck gentleman give ground happiness Hebrides Highlands honour hope human Idler imperfection Inch Kenneth infinite inhabitants inquire Interpolation Inverness islands JOHN MILTON knowledge labour ladies laird land lately learned less live lower Holloway Macdonald Maclean Macleod magnificence means mihi miles Milton mind misery mountains Mull nation nature necessary neral never once pain PARADISE LOST passage passed perhaps piness pleasure poverty publick Raasay reason rich rock Scotland seems seldom shew Sir Allan Slanes Castle sometimes standing stone subordination suffered supposed sure tacksman Taisch tenants thing thought tion told travelled truth Ulva universal vultures whole
Populaire passages
Pagina 317 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the...
Pagina 317 - ... dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona ! We came too late to visit monuments : some care was necessary for ourselves.
Pagina 118 - The only end of writing is to enable the readers better to enjoy life, or better to endure it...
Pagina 72 - ... in the centre, and its turrets sparkle in the skies ; to trace back the structure through all its varieties to the simplicity of...
Pagina 177 - I sat down on a bank, such as a writer of Romance might have delighted to feign. I had indeed no trees to whisper over my head, but a clear rivulet streamed at my feet. The day was calm, the air soft, and all was rudeness, silence, and solitude. Before me, and on either side, were high hills, which by hindering the eye from ranging, forced the mind to find entertainment for itself. Whether I spent the hour well I know not; for here I first conceived the thought of this narration.
Pagina 69 - Acorns, so Men are by some unaccountable power driven one against another, till they lose their motion, that Vultures may be fed. Others think they have observed something of contrivance and policy among these...
Pagina 59 - ... pleasures. But at fifty no man easily finds a woman beautiful as the Houries, and wise as Zobeide. I inquired and rejected, consulted and deliberated, till the sixtysecond year made me ashamed of gazing upon girls. I had now nothing left but retirement ; and for retirement I never found a time, till disease forced me from public employment.
Pagina 43 - He that instructs must offer to the mind something to be imitated, or something to be avoided ; he that pleases must offor new images to his reader, and enable him to form a tacit comparison of his own state with that of others. • The greater part of travellers tell nothing, because their method of travelling supplies them with nothing to be told.
Pagina 197 - A man of the Hebrides, for of the women's diet I can give no account, as soon as he appears in the morning, swallows a glass of whisky; yet they are not a drunken race...
Pagina 59 - Such was my scheme, and such has been its consequence. With an insatiable thirst for knowledge, I trifled away the years of improvement ; with a restless desire of seeing different countries, I have always resided in the same city ; with the highest expectation of connubial felicity, I have lived unmarried ; and with unalterable resolutions of contemplative retirement, I am going to die within the walls of Bagdat.