The British Novelists: With an Essay, and Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volumen26F. C. and J. Rivington, 1820 |
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... marriage has many pains , but celibacy has no pleasures ; that the hermit cannot secure himself from vice , but by retiring from the exercise of virtue ;, that shepherds are boors , and philosophers - only men . ii JOHNSON .
... marriage has many pains , but celibacy has no pleasures ; that the hermit cannot secure himself from vice , but by retiring from the exercise of virtue ;, that shepherds are boors , and philosophers - only men . ii JOHNSON .
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... secure . They are surely happy , said the prince , who have all these conveniencies , of which I envy none so much as the facility with which separated friends interchange their thoughts . The Europeans , answered Imlac , are less un ...
... secure . They are surely happy , said the prince , who have all these conveniencies , of which I envy none so much as the facility with which separated friends interchange their thoughts . The Europeans , answered Imlac , are less un ...
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... secure her secrecy by a declaration without re- serve . Do not imagine , said the princess , that I came hi- ther as a spy : I had long observed from my window that you and Imlac directed your walk every day to- wards the same point ...
... secure her secrecy by a declaration without re- serve . Do not imagine , said the princess , that I came hi- ther as a spy : I had long observed from my window that you and Imlac directed your walk every day to- wards the same point ...
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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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... hope of regaining Pekuah , but he sup- posed , that if he could secure the interval of a year , the princess would be then in no danger of a cloister . CHAPTER XXXVI . Pekuah is still remembered . The progress 92 RASSELAS ,
... hope of regaining Pekuah , but he sup- posed , that if he could secure the interval of a year , the princess would be then in no danger of a cloister . CHAPTER XXXVI . Pekuah is still remembered . The progress 92 RASSELAS ,
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Abdallah Almeida Almoran and Hamet anguish answered Imlac appearance Arab art thou astronomer attention bassa brother Cairo Caled CHAPTER command conceal considered countenance danger death delight desire disappointment discovered distress dominion doubt dreadful effect entered eunuch evil eyes fancy father favour fear felicity folly genius hand happy valley heard heart Heaven hermit honour hope imagination impatience inquiry instantly knew knowledge labour learned look marriage ment mind misery mountains nature Nekayah never Nile observed Omar once opinion Osmyn palace passed passions Pekuah perceived Persia pleased pleasure poignard possessed present prince PRINCE OF ABISSINIA princess pyramid racters Rasselas reason received recollected replied reproach resolved retired returned scrupulosity secure seraglio silent slave solitude Solyman soon sorrow sound of music suffer supposed talisman tenderness thee thou art thou hast thought thyself tion virtue voice weary wisdom wishes wretched XXVI youth
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Página 28 - The business of a poet," said Imlac, "is to examine, not the individual, but the species ; to remark general properties and large appearances ; he does not number the streaks of the tulip, or describe the different shades in the verdure of the forest.
Página 111 - ... intellectual gratifications are rejected; the mind, in weariness or leisure, recurs constantly to the favourite conception, and feasts on the luscious falsehood whenever she is offended with the bitterness of truth. 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.
Página 27 - Whatever be the reason, it is commonly observed that the early writers are in possession of nature, and their followers of art: that the first excel in strength and invention, and the latter in elegance and refinement.
Página 80 - I will not undertake to maintain, against the concurrent and unvaried testimony of all ages, and of all nations. There is no people, rude or learned, among whom apparitions of the dead are not related and believed. This opinion, which prevails, as far as human nature is diffused, could become universal only by its truth...
Página 111 - 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.
Página 114 - Praise," said the sage, with a sigh, " is to an old man an empty sound. I have neither mother to be delighted with the reputation of her son, nor wife to partake the honours of her husband. I have outlived my friends and my rivals. Nothing is now of much importance ; for I cannot extend my interest beyond myself. Youth is delighted with applause, because it is considered as the earnest of some future good, and because the prospect of life is far extended...
Página 2 - ... frequented by every fowl whom nature has taught to dip the wing in water. This lake discharged its superfluities by a stream which entered a dark cleft of the mountain on the northern side, and fell with dreadful noise from precipice to precipice till it was heard no more.
Página 1 - 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,1 prince of Abyssinia.
Página 106 - Hear, Imlac, what thou wilt not without difficulty credit. I have possessed for five years the regulation of the weather, and the distribution of the seasons : the sun has listened to my dictates, and passed from tropic to tropic by my direction ; the clouds, at my call, have poured their waters, and the Nile has overflowed at my command ; I have restrained the rage of the dog-star, and mitigated the fervors of the crab.
Página 18 - ... would be the security of the good, if the bad could at pleasure invade them from the sky ? Against an army sailing through the clouds, neither walls, nor mountains, nor seas, could afford any security. A flight of northern savages might hover in the wind, and light at once with irresistible violence upon the capital of a fruitful region that was rolling under them.