The British Novelists: With an Essay, and Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Том 26F. C. and J. Rivington, 1820 |
Результаты поиска по книге
Результаты 1 – 5 из 39
Стр. 1
... present day will be supplied by the morrow ; attend to the history of Rasselas prince of Abissinia . Rasselas was the fourth son of the mighty em- peror , in whose dominions the Father of Waters begins his course ; whose bounty pours ...
... present day will be supplied by the morrow ; attend to the history of Rasselas prince of Abissinia . Rasselas was the fourth son of the mighty em- peror , in whose dominions the Father of Waters begins his course ; whose bounty pours ...
Стр. 9
... 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 . CHAPTER IV . The prince continues to grieve and muse ...
... 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 . CHAPTER IV . The prince continues to grieve and muse ...
Стр. 29
... present laws and opinions , and rise to general and transcendental truths , which will always be the same . He must therefore content himself with the slow progress of his name , contemn the applause of his own time , and commit his ...
... present laws and opinions , and rise to general and transcendental truths , which will always be the same . He must therefore content himself with the slow progress of his name , contemn the applause of his own time , and commit his ...
Стр. 30
... present hear no more of his labours . Tell me whither you went when you had seen Persia . From Persia , said the poet , I travelled through Syria , and for three years résided in Palestine , where I conversed with great numbers of the ...
... present hear no more of his labours . Tell me whither you went when you had seen Persia . From Persia , said the poet , I travelled through Syria , and for three years résided in Palestine , where I conversed with great numbers of the ...
Стр. 36
... present moment , are either corroded by malignant passions , or sit stupid in the gloom of perpetual vacancy . What passions can infest those , said the prince , who have no rivals ? We are in a place where im- potence precludes malice ...
... present moment , are either corroded by malignant passions , or sit stupid in the gloom of perpetual vacancy . What passions can infest those , said the prince , who have no rivals ? We are in a place where im- potence precludes malice ...
Другие издания - Просмотреть все
The British Novelists: With an Essay, and Prefaces, Biographical and ..., Том 26 Полный просмотр - 1820 |
Часто встречающиеся слова и выражения
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
Популярные отрывки
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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...
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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...
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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.