The history of Rasselas, prince of Abyssinia. With a complete vocabulary compiled by E. Amthor1846 |
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... observation and close inquiry have convin- ced me that there is to much reality in the gloomy pic- ture . The truth , however , is , that we judge of the hap- piness and misery of life differently at different times , according to the ...
... observation and close inquiry have convin- ced me that there is to much reality in the gloomy pic- ture . The truth , however , is , that we judge of the hap- piness and misery of life differently at different times , according to the ...
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... observed the change , and endeavoured to renew his love of pleasure ; he neglected their officiousness , repulsed their invitations , and spent day after day on the banks of ri- vulets sheltered with trees , where he sometimes listened ...
... observed the change , and endeavoured to renew his love of pleasure ; he neglected their officiousness , repulsed their invitations , and spent day after day on the banks of ri- vulets sheltered with trees , where he sometimes listened ...
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... observations like these the prince amused himself as he returned , uttering them with a plaintive voice , yet with a look that discovered him to feel some complacence in his own perspicuity , and to receive some solace of the miseries ...
... observations like these the prince amused himself as he returned , uttering them with a plaintive voice , yet with a look that discovered him to feel some complacence in his own perspicuity , and to receive some solace of the miseries ...
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... observed in the prince , and to inquire why he so often retired from the 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 ...
... observed in the prince , and to inquire why he so often retired from the 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 ...
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... observed before . I have already enjoyed too much ; · give me something to desire . " 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 ...
... observed before . I have already enjoyed too much ; · give me something to desire . " 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 ...
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Стр. 3 - 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 Abissinia.
Стр. 85 - 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 perhaps prevails as far as human nature is diffused, could become universal only by its truth...
Стр. 115 - 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. 28 - ... it received by accident at first: or whether, 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.
Стр. 29 - The business of a poet," said Imlac, " is to examine, not the individual, but the species ; to remark general properties and large appearances...
Стр. 58 - My fancy riots in scenes of folly, and I lament that I have lost so much, and have gained so little. In solitude, if I escape the example of bad men, I want likewise the counsel and conversation of the good. I have been long comparing the evils with the advantages of society, and resolve to return into the world to-morrow. The life of a solitary man will be certainly miserable, but not certainly devout.
Стр. 29 - Being now resolved to be a poet, I saw everything with a new purpose; my 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.
Стр. 16 - Sir, said he, you have seen but a small part of what the mechanick sciences can perform. I have been long of opinion, that, instead of the tardy conveyance of ships and chariots, man might use the swifter migration of wings ; that the fields of air are open to knowledge, and that only ignorance and idleness need crawl upon the ground.
Стр. 32 - They are more powerful, Sir, than we, (answered Imlac,) because they are wiser. Knowledge will always predominate over ignorance, as man governs the other animals. But why their knowledge is more than ours, I know not what reason can be given, but the unsearchable will of the Supreme Being.
Стр. 33 - There is so much infelicity," said the poet, " in the world, that scarce any man has leisure from his own distresses to estimate the comparative happiness of others. Knowledge is certainly one of the means of pleasure, as is confessed by the natural desire which every mind feels of increasing its ideas. Ignorance is mere privation, by which nothing can be produced : it is a vacuity in which the soul sits motionless and torpid for want of attraction ; and, whhout knowing why, we always rejoice when...