Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia: A TaleBennett & Walton, 1811 - 179 páginas |
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... pleased with their own condition . The sages who instructed them told them of nothing but the miseries of public life , and described all beyond the mountains as regions of calam- ity , where discord was always raging , and where man ...
... pleased with their own condition . The sages who instructed them told them of nothing but the miseries of public life , and described all beyond the mountains as regions of calam- ity , where discord was always raging , and where man ...
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... pleased with each other and with themselves ; all but Rasselas , who , in the twenty - sixth year of his age , began to with- draw himself from their pastimes and assem- blies , and to delight in solitary walks and si- lent meditation ...
... pleased with each other and with themselves ; all but Rasselas , who , in the twenty - sixth year of his age , began to with- draw himself from their pastimes and assem- blies , and to delight in solitary walks and si- lent meditation ...
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... pleased only while they were new , and to become new again must be forgotten ? " He then walked into the wood , and composed himself to his usual me- ditations ; when before his thoughts had taken any settled form , he perceived his ...
... pleased only while they were new , and to become new again must be forgotten ? " He then walked into the wood , and composed himself to his usual me- ditations ; when before his thoughts had taken any settled form , he perceived his ...
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... pleased with the state of which he himself was weary . But pleasures never can be so multiplied or continued , as not to leave much of life unemployed ; there were many hours , both of the night and day , which he could spend without ...
... pleased with the state of which he himself was weary . But pleasures never can be so multiplied or continued , as not to leave much of life unemployed ; there were many hours , both of the night and day , which he could spend without ...
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... pleased with every kind of know- ledge , imagining that the time would come when all his acquisitions should be of use to him in the open world . He came one day to amuse himself in his usual manner , and found the master busy in ...
... pleased with every kind of know- ledge , imagining that the time would come when all his acquisitions should be of use to him in the open world . He came one day to amuse himself in his usual manner , and found the master busy in ...
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Abissinia afford afraid amuse answered Imlac Arab astronomer attention bassa began Cairo cause cavern CHAP choice clouds companions condition considered continued conversation curiosity danger delight desire discovered dreadful easily Egypt endeavoured enjoy enter envy escape evil expect eyes fancy father favour favourite fear felicity folly happy valley heard hermit hope hope and fear human imagination inquire kayah knowledge labour lady less live looked maids mankind marriage mind misery mountains nature Nekayah never Nile observed once opinion palace Palestine passed passions Pekuah Persia pleased pleasure poet portune possessed prince PRINCE OF ABISSINIA princess pyramid quire Rasselas reason Red sea resolved rest retired retreat returned rich sage solitude sometimes soon sorrow sound of music suffer suppose surely thing thou thought tion travelled truth ture virtue weary wise wonder youth
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Página 114 - ... 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 the general evidence: and some who deny it with their tongues confess it by their fears.
Página 154 - 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 44 - 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 153 - Disorders of intellect', answered Imlac, 'happen much more often than superficial observers will easily believe. Perhaps, if we speak with rigorous exactness, no human mind is in its right state. There is no man whose imagination does not sometimes predominate over his reason, who can regulate his attention wholly by his will, and whose ideas will come and go at his command.
Página 72 - ... dance no more about us, we shall have no comforts but the esteem of wise men, and the means of doing good. Let us, therefore, stop, while to stop is in our power: let us live as men who are...
Página 15 - Abyssinia lived only to know the soft vicissitudes of 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.
Página 31 - Nothing, replied the artist, will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must be first overcome. If you will favour my project, I will try the first flight at my own hazard. I have considered the structure of all volant animals, and find the folding continuity of the bat's wings most easily accommodated to the human form. Upon this model I shall begin my task to-morrow, and in a year expect to tower into the air beyond the malice and pursuit of man.
Página 154 - He who has nothing external that can divert him, must find pleasure in his own thoughts, and must conceive himself what he is not ; for who is pleased with what he is ? He then expatiates in boundless futurity, and culls from all imaginable conditions that which for the present moment he should most desire, amuses his desires with impossible enjoyments, and confers upon his pride unattainable dominion.
Página 18 - Man surely has some latent sense for which this place affords no gratification ; or he has some desires, distinct from sense, which must be satisfied before he can be happy.
Página 75 - you are come at a time when all human friendship is useless ; what I suffer cannot be remedied, what I have lost cannot be supplied. My daughter, my only daughter, from whose tenderness I expected all the comforts of my age, died last night of a fever. My views, my purposes, my hopes are at an end: I am now^ajonely being disunited from society...