Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia: A TalePhilip H. Nicklin & Company, Printed by Jos. Robinson, 1810 - 184 páginas |
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... pleasure were called to gladden the festivi- ty ; the musicians exerted the power of harmony , and the dancers showed their ac- tivity before the princes , in hope that they should pass their lives in this blissful eapti- vity , to ...
... pleasure were called to gladden the festivi- ty ; the musicians exerted the power of harmony , and the dancers showed their ac- tivity before the princes , in hope that they should pass their lives in this blissful eapti- vity , to ...
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... pleasure and repose , attended by all that were skilful to delight , and gratified with whatever the senses can enjoy . They wandered in gardens of fragrance , and slept in the fortresses of security . Every art was practised to make ...
... pleasure and repose , attended by all that were skilful to delight , and gratified with whatever the senses can enjoy . They wandered in gardens of fragrance , and slept in the fortresses of security . Every art was practised to make ...
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... pleasure he neglected their officious . ness , repulsed their invitations , and spent day after day on the banks of rivulets sheltered with trees , where he sometimes listened to the birds in the branches , some- times observed the fish ...
... pleasure he neglected their officious . ness , repulsed their invitations , and spent day after day on the banks of rivulets sheltered with trees , where he sometimes listened to the birds in the branches , some- times observed the fish ...
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... pleasure , yet I do not feel myself delighted . Man sure- ly has some latent sense for which this place affords no gratification , or he has some de- sires distinct from sense which must be satisfied before he can be happy . " After ...
... pleasure , yet I do not feel myself delighted . Man sure- ly has some latent sense for which this place affords no gratification , or he has some de- sires distinct from sense which must be satisfied before he can be happy . " After ...
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... pleasures of the palace to loneliness and silence . " I fly from pleasure , said the prince , because pleasure has ceased to please ; I am lonely because I am miserable , and am unwilling to cloud with my presence the happiness of ...
... pleasures of the palace to loneliness and silence . " I fly from pleasure , said the prince , because pleasure has ceased to please ; I am lonely because I am miserable , and am unwilling to cloud with my presence the happiness of ...
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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...