Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia: A TalePhilip H. Nicklin & Company, Printed by Jos. Robinson, 1810 - 184 páginas |
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... lives in this blissful eapti- vity , to which those only were admitted whose performance was thought able to add novelty to luxury . Such was the appear- ance of security and delight which this re- tirement afforded , that they to whom ...
... lives in this blissful eapti- vity , to which those only were admitted whose performance was thought able to add novelty to luxury . Such was the appear- ance of security and delight which this re- tirement afforded , that they to whom ...
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... lives in full conviction that they had all within their reach that art or nature could bestow , and pitied those whom fate had excluded from this seat of tranquillity , as the sport of chance and the slaves of misery . Thus they rose in ...
... lives in full conviction that they had all within their reach that art or nature could bestow , and pitied those whom fate had excluded from this seat of tranquillity , as the sport of chance and the slaves of misery . Thus they rose in ...
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... lives in tuning one unvaried series of sounds . I likewise can call the lutanist and the singer ; but the sounds that pleased me yesterday weary me to - day , and will grow yet more wearisome to - morrow . I can discover within me no ...
... lives in tuning one unvaried series of sounds . I likewise can call the lutanist and the singer ; but the sounds that pleased me yesterday weary me to - day , and will grow yet more wearisome to - morrow . I can discover within me no ...
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... live together as friends and partners ; for he shall always be equal with me , who is equally skilled in the art of growing rich . " * " We laid our money upon camels , con- cealed in bales of cheap goods , and travelled to the shore of ...
... live together as friends and partners ; for he shall always be equal with me , who is equally skilled in the art of growing rich . " * " We laid our money upon camels , con- cealed in bales of cheap goods , and travelled to the shore of ...
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... live without any settled ha- bitation ; whose only wealth is their flocks and herds ; and who have yet carried on , through all ages , an hereditary war with all mankind , though they neither covet nor envy their possessions . CHAP . X ...
... live without any settled ha- bitation ; whose only wealth is their flocks and herds ; and who have yet carried on , through all ages , an hereditary war with all mankind , though they neither covet nor envy their possessions . CHAP . X ...
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Abissinia afford afraid amuse answered Imlac Arab astronomer attention Bassa began Cairo CHAP choice clouds companions condition considered continued conversation curiosity danger daugh delight desire discovered dreadful easily endeavored enjoy entered envy evil expect eyes fancy father favorite fear felicity folly happy valley heard hermit hope hope and fear human ignorance imagination inquire kayah knowledge kuah labor lady less live look maids mankind marriage ment messen mind misery mountains nature Nekayah ness never Nile observed once opinion palace Palestine passed passions Pekuah Persia pleased pleasure poet portune prince PRINCE OF ABISSINIA princess pyramid Rasselas reason Red Sea resolved rest retired retreat returned rich sage scrupulosity silent sion solitude sometimes soon sorrow sound of music suffer suppose surely thing thou thought tion travelled virtue weary wisdom wonder youth
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Página 141 - ... 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 perhaps prevails as far as human nature is diffused, could become universal only by its truth : those that never heard of one another, would not have agreed in a tale which nothing but experience can make credible. That it is doubted by single cavillers, can very little weaken...
Página 184 - We sat a while silent in the dark, and then he addressed himself to me in these words : ' Imlac, I have long considered thy friendship as the greatest blessing of my life. Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
Página 36 - I should with great alacrity teach them all to fly. But what 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.
Página 52 - Being now resolved to be a poet, I saw every thing with a new purpose ; ray sphere of attention was -suddenly magnified : no kind of knowledge was to be overlooked. I ranged mountains and deserts, for images and resemblances, and pictured . upon my mind every tree of the forest and flower of the valley.
Página 11 - The sides of the mountains were covered with trees, the banks of the brooks were diversified with flowers ; every blast shook spices from the rocks, and every month dropped fruits upon the ground.
Página 11 - From the mountains on every side rivulets descended that filled all the valley with verdure and fertility, and formed a lake in the middle inhabited by fish of every species, and frequented by every fowl whom Nature has taught to dip the wing in water.
Página 22 - The old man was surprised at this new species of affliction, and knew not what to reply, yet was unwilling to be silent. "Sir," said he, "if you had seen the miseries of the world, you would know how to value your present state." "Now," said the prince, "you have given me something to desire; I shall long to see the miseries of the world, since the sight of them is necessary to happiness.
Página 21 - That I want nothing," said the prince, " or that I know not what I want, is the cause of my complaint ; if I had any known want, I should have a certain wish: that wish would excite endeavour, and...
Página 55 - He must divest himself of the prejudices of his age or country ; he must consider right and wrong in their abstracted and invariable state ; he must disregard present laws and opinions, and rise to general and transcendental truths, which will always be the same...
Página 51 - ... as the province of poetry is to describe Nature and passion, which are always the same, the first writers took possession of the most striking objects for description, and the most probable occurrences for fiction, and left nothing to those that followed them, but transcription of the same events, and new combinations of the same images. 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...