Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia: A TaleT.H. Carter, 1844 - 124 páginas |
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... never read it again for several years . But it bears no marks of haste or incorrectness ; on the contrary , it appears to the reader , and really is , a most finished performance . It has been translated into most of the languages of ...
... never read it again for several years . But it bears no marks of haste or incorrectness ; on the contrary , it appears to the reader , and really is , a most finished performance . It has been translated into most of the languages of ...
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... never suf- fered to return , the effect of longer experience could not be known . Thus every year produced new schemes of delight , and new competitors for imprison- ment . The palace stood on an eminence raised about thirty paces above ...
... never suf- fered to return , the effect of longer experience could not be known . Thus every year produced new schemes of delight , and new competitors for imprison- ment . The palace stood on an eminence raised about thirty paces above ...
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... never be suffered to forget those lectures which pleased only while they were new , and to become new again must be forgotten ? " Ile then walked into the wood , and composed himself to his usual meditations ; when , before his thoughts ...
... never be suffered to forget those lectures which pleased only while they were new , and to become new again must be forgotten ? " Ile then walked into the wood , and composed himself to his usual meditations ; when , before his thoughts ...
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... never had 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 un- willing to be silent . " Sir , " said ...
... never had 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 un- willing to be silent . " Sir , " said ...
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... never can be so multiplied or continued , as not to leave much of life unemployed ; there were inany hours , both of the night and day , which he could spend with- out suspicion in solitary thought . The load of life was much lightened ...
... never can be so multiplied or continued , as not to leave much of life unemployed ; there were inany hours , both of the night and day , which he could spend with- out suspicion in solitary thought . The load of life was much lightened ...
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Abyssinia afford afraid amuse answered Imlac Arab astronomer Bassa began Cairo cavern CHAPTER choice companions conceal condition considered continued conversation criminal negligence curiosity danger delight desire domestick dreadful easily endeavoured enjoy enter envy escape evil expect eyes fancy father favour favourite fear felicity folly happy valley heard hermit hope hope and fear hour human imagination inquire knowledge kuah labour lady less live look lost maids mankind marriage ment messen mind misery mountains nations nature Nekayah never Nile observed once opinion palace Palestine passed passions Pekuah Persia pleased pleasure poet possessed prince princess Pyramid Rasselas reason Red Sea resolved rest retired retreat returned rich sage scrupulosity silent solitude sometimes soon sorrow sound of music suffer supposed surely tents terrour thing thou thought tion travelled virtue weary wisdom wonder youth
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Página 30 - 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 : he is to exhibit in his portraits of nature such prominent and striking features, as recall the original to every mind; and must neglect the minuter discriminations, which one may have remarked, and another have neglected, for those characteristics which...
Página 107 - To indulge the power of fiction, and send imagination out upon the wing, is often the sport of those who delight too much in silent speculation.
Página 58 - This," said a philosopher, who had heard him with tokens of great impatience, "is the present condition of a wise man. The time is already come, when none are wretched but by their own fault. Nothing is more idle than to inquire after happiness, \ which nature has kindly placed within our reach. The way to be happy is to live according to nature, in obedience to that universal and unalterable law with which every heart is originally impressed; which is not written on it by precept, but engraven by...
Página 66 - They act as beings under the constant sense of some known inferiority, that fills their minds with rancour, and their tongues with censure. They are peevish at home, and malevolent abroad; and, as the outlaws of human nature, make it their business and their pleasure to disturb that society which debars them from its privileges. To live without feeling or exciting sympathy, to be fortunate without adding to the felicity of others, or afflicted without tasting the balm of pity, is a state more gloomy...
Página 18 - I am afraid," said he to the artist, " that your imagination prevails over your skill, and that you now tell me rather what you wish than what you know. Every animal has his element assigned him ; the birds have the air, and man and beasts the earth.
Página 47 - 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.
Página 18 - you have seen but a small part of what the mechanic 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.
Página 59 - To live according to nature, is to act always with due regard to the fitness arising from the relations and qualities of causes and effects; to concur with the great and unchangeable scheme of universal felicity ; to co-operate with the general disposition and tendency of the present system of things.
Página 20 - I should with great alacrity teach them all to fly. But what 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.
Página 30 - 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.