Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia: A TaleBennett & Walton, 1811 - Всего страниц: 179 |
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... knowledge of the ways of men . His wish still continued , but his hope grew less . He ceased to survey any longer the walls of his prison , and spared to search by new toils for interstices which he knew could not be found , yet ...
... knowledge of the ways of men . His wish still continued , but his hope grew less . He ceased to survey any longer the walls of his prison , and spared to search by new toils for interstices which he knew could not be found , yet ...
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... knowledge of the me- chanic powers , who had contrived many en- gines both of use and recreation . By a wheel , which the stream turned , he forced the water into a tower , whence it was distributed to all the apartments of the palace ...
... knowledge of the me- chanic powers , who had contrived many en- gines both of use and recreation . By a wheel , which the stream turned , he forced the water into a tower , whence it was distributed to all the apartments of the palace ...
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... knowledge , and that only ignorance and idleness need crawl upon the ground . " This hint rekindled the prince's desire of passing the mountains ; having seen what the mechanist had already performed , he was willing to fancy that he ...
... knowledge , and that only ignorance and idleness need crawl upon the ground . " This hint rekindled the prince's desire of passing the mountains ; having seen what the mechanist had already performed , he was willing to fancy that he ...
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... knowledge passes silently away , and is very little diversi- fied by events . To talk in public , to think in solitude , to read and hear , to inquire and an- swer inquiries , is the business of a scholar . He wanders about the world ...
... knowledge passes silently away , and is very little diversi- fied by events . To talk in public , to think in solitude , to read and hear , to inquire and an- swer inquiries , is the business of a scholar . He wanders about the world ...
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... knowledge , and felt the pleasure of intelligence , and the pride of invention , I be- gan silently to despise riches , and determined to disappoint the purpose of my father , whose grossness of conception raised my pity . I was twenty ...
... knowledge , and felt the pleasure of intelligence , and the pride of invention , I be- gan silently to despise riches , and determined to disappoint the purpose of my father , whose grossness of conception raised my pity . I was twenty ...
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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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Стр. 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.
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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...
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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...