Excerpt from The Works of Solomon Gessner, Vol. 2 of 3: Translated From the German; With Some Account of His Life and Writings These Idyls are the fruits of some of my happiest hours; of those hours, when imagination and tranquillity shed their sweetest in uence over me, and ex cluding all which belongs to the period in which we live, recalled all the charms and delights of the golden age. A noble and well-regulated mind, dwells with plea sure on these images of calm tranquillity and uninterrupted happiness; and the scenes ...
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Excerpt from The Works of Solomon Gessner, Vol. 2 of 3: Translated From the German; With Some Account of His Life and Writings These Idyls are the fruits of some of my happiest hours; of those hours, when imagination and tranquillity shed their sweetest in uence over me, and ex cluding all which belongs to the period in which we live, recalled all the charms and delights of the golden age. A noble and well-regulated mind, dwells with plea sure on these images of calm tranquillity and uninterrupted happiness; and the scenes in which the poet delineates the simple beauties of uncorrupted nature, are endeared to us by the resemblance we fancy we perceive in them, to the most blissful moments that we have ourselves. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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