Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia: A TaleEdward Lacey, 1838 - Всего страниц: 111 |
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66 CHAP 66 Imlac Abissinia able afford amuse answered Imlac Arab astronomer Bassa began Cairo choice companions conceal condition considered continued conversation curiosity danger daugh delight desire discovered dreadful endeavoured enjoy enter envy escape evil expect eyes fancy father favour favourite fear felicity folly gratified happy valley hear heard hermit hope hope and fear human ignorance imagination inhabitants knowledge labour lady learned less live live single look maids mankind marriage mind mirn misery mountains nations Nekayah never Nile observed opinion palace Palestine passed passions Pekuah Persia pleased pleasure poet present prince princess pyramid Rasselas reason Red Sea resolved rest retreat returned rich sage shewed silent solitude sometimes soon sorrow sound of music suffer supposed surely thing thou thought tion torrents streamed travelled truth virtue wall of China weary wonder youth
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Стр. 24 - 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. 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, prince of Abyssinia.
Стр. 24 - 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...
Стр. 94 - 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?
Стр. 111 - The prince desired a little kingdom, in which he might administer justice in his own person, and see all the parts of government with his own eyes ; but he could never fix the limits of his dominion, and was always adding to the number of his subjects. Imlac and the astronomer were contented to be driven along the stream of life without directing their course to any particular port.
Стр. 43 - Consider that external things are naturally variable, but truth and reason are always the same." "What comfort," said the mourner, "can truth and reason afford me? Of what effect are they now, but to tell me that my daughter will not be restored?
Стр. 41 - As he was one day walking in the street, he saw a spacious building which all were, by the open doors, invited to enter. He followed the stream of people, and found it a hall or school of declamation, in which professors read lectures to their auditory. He fixed his eye upon a sage raised above the rest, who discoursed with great energy on the government of the passions. His look was venerable, his action graceful, his pronunciation clear, and his diction elegant.
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. 39 - The causes of good and evil, answered Imlac, are so various and uncertain, so often entangled with each other, so diversified by various relations, and so much subject to accidents which cannot be foreseen, that he who would fix his condition upon incontestable reasons of preference, must live and die inquiring and deliberating.
Стр. 94 - 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.