Adventures of TelemachusDerby & Jackson, 1859 - 559 pages |
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Page 175 - ... are the food of youth, the delight of old age; the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity; a delight at home, and no hindrance abroad; they are companions by night, and in travel, and in the country.
Page 141 - Epic Poets , it were unjust to make no mention of the amiable author of the Adventures of Telemachus. His work, though not composed in Verse, is justly entitled to be held a Poem. The measured poetical Prose, in which it is written , is remarkably harmonious ; and gives the Style nearly as much elevation as the French language is capable of supporting , even in regular Verses...
Page 152 - ... through the island : but she within was singing with a beautiful voice, and, going over the web, wove with a golden shuttle. But a flourishing wood sprung up around her grot, alder and poplar, and sweet-smelling cypress. There also birds with spreading wings slept, owls and hawks, and wide-tongued crows of the ocean, to which maritime employments are a care. There a vine in its prime was spread about the hollow grot, and it flourished with clusters. But four fountains flowed in succession with...
Page 554 - What would you have given, yesterday, to know that he was not dead ! To-day your own eyes assure you that he lives, and this assurance, which should transport you with joy, overwhelms you with distress. Thus do mankind, by the perverse depravity of their nature, esteem that which they have most desired as of no value the moment it is possessed, and torment themselves with fruitless wishes for that which is beyond their reach.
Page 360 - just contrary to what is commonly done: rapacious and inconsiderate princes think only of taxing those who are most industrious to improve their lands ; because, upon these, they suppose a tax will be more easily levied ; and they spare those, whom idleness has made indigent. Reverse this mistaken and injurious conduct, which oppresses virtue, rewards vice, and encourages a supineness that is equally fatal to the king and to the state. Let your taxes be heavy upon those who neglect the cultivation...
Page 494 - THE Daunians, as soon as Adrastus was dead, instead of deploring their defeat, and the loss of their chief, rejoiced in their deliverance; and gave their hands to the allies, in token of peace and reconciliation. Metrodorus, the son of Adrastus, whom the tyrant had brought up in the principles of dissimulation, injustice, and cruelty...
Page 459 - ... with the mortal body; they see it, they feel it, they breathe it, and it produces in them an inexhaustible source of serenity and joy. It is a fountain of delight, in which they are absorbed as fishes are absorbed in the sea; they wish for nothing, and, having nothing, they possess all things. This celestial light satiates the...
Page 292 - Superior wisdom, the result either of long experience or uncommon abilities, is the only mark of distinction among them ; the sophistry of fraud, the cry of violence, the contention of the bar, and the tumult of battle, are never heard in this sacred region, which the gods have taken under their immediate protection : this soil has never been distained with human blood ; and even that of a lamb has rarely been shed upon it. — When...
Page 358 - ... marriage; and the most simple way of facilitating marriage is the most effectual. All men are naturally inclined to marry, and nothing prevents them from indulging this inclination but the prospect of difficulty and distress. If you do not load them with taxes, their families will never become a burden. The earth is never ungrateful, but always affords sustenance to those who diligently cultivate it. It refuses its bounty only to those who refuse their labor.
Page 264 - shall be no longer distressed by the austerity of that severe censor, who opposes your happiness, and would become jealous of your immortality." "To send away Mentor !" said Telemachus; "if he forsakes me, I am undone : if he forsakes me, whom shall I have left, Eucharis, but thee?