History of Rasselas, Prince of AbyssiniaH. Holt, 1895 - 179 Seiten |
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... possessed would have got four hundred pounds for that work , but he never understood the art of making the most of his productions.1 Beside these statements , some of which cannot be true , we may place the most important document ...
... possessed would have got four hundred pounds for that work , but he never understood the art of making the most of his productions.1 Beside these statements , some of which cannot be true , we may place the most important document ...
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... possessing many sterling qualities which have scarcely been sur- passed by its successors . The third designation of Johnson is that which most aptly characterizes his real personality . It is based on that body of vigorous , original ...
... possessing many sterling qualities which have scarcely been sur- passed by its successors . The third designation of Johnson is that which most aptly characterizes his real personality . It is based on that body of vigorous , original ...
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... possessing no experience of life , desires to see all conditions of existence that he may choose the happiest . Johnson's own views are shown in the first place by the opposi- tion he presents to this , desire for seeing the miseries of ...
... possessing no experience of life , desires to see all conditions of existence that he may choose the happiest . Johnson's own views are shown in the first place by the opposi- tion he presents to this , desire for seeing the miseries of ...
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... possessing all that I can want , I find one day and one hour exactly like another , except 10 that the latter is still more tedious than the former . Let your experience inform me how the day may now seem as short as in my childhood ...
... possessing all that I can want , I find one day and one hour exactly like another , except 10 that the latter is still more tedious than the former . Let your experience inform me how the day may now seem as short as in my childhood ...
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... possessed it ; but of twenty months to come , who can assure me ? " The consciousness of his own folly pierced him 20 deeply , and he was long before he could be reconciled to himself . " The rest of my time , " said he , " has been ...
... possessed it ; but of twenty months to come , who can assure me ? " The consciousness of his own folly pierced him 20 deeply , and he was long before he could be reconciled to himself . " The rest of my time , " said he , " has been ...
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Abyssinia alliteration Amba Geshen amuse answered Imlac Arab astronomer Bassa began Cairo CHAPTER choice companions condition considered conversation curiosity danger Deists delight desire Dictionary dreadful edition Egypt eighteenth century emperor endeavored enjoy entered evil example expected fancy father favorite fear felicity folly Gentleman's Magazine happy valley heard hermit hope human imagination inquiry janissaries Johnson Johnson's style journey knowledge labor lady learned less live Lobo maids mankind marriage means mind misery mountains nature Nekayah ness never Nile Note observed opinion palace passed passion Pekuah perhaps Persia pleased pleasure poet possession present preterit Prince of Abyssinia princess pyramid Rambler Rasselas reason Red Sea resolved rest sage Samuel Johnson sense solitude sometimes soon sorrow sound of music story suffer suppose tale thou thought tion travelled virtue weary wonder word youth Zeila ΙΟ
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Seite 156 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the...
Seite 159 - Good and evil we know in the field of this world grow up together almost inseparably; and the knowledge of good is so involved and interwoven with the knowledge of evil...
Seite 28 - 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.
Seite 29 - ... be familiar to his imagination : he must be conversant with all that is awfully vast or elegantly little. The plants of the garden, the animals of the wood, the minerals of the earth, and meteors of the sky, must all concur to store his mind with inexhaustible variety : for every idea is useful for the enforcement or decoration of moral or religious truth ; and he, who knows most, will have most power of diversifying his scenes, and of gratifying his reader with remote allusions and unexpected...
Seite 19 - In a year the wings were finished, and, on a morning appointed, the maker appeared furnished for flight on a little promontory : he waved his pinions a while to gather air, then leaped from his stand, and in an instant dropped into the lake.
Seite 176 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for not without dust and heat.
Seite 153 - The reverence due to writings that have long subsisted arises therefore not from any credulous confidence in the superior wisdom of past ages, or gloomy persuasion of the degeneracy of mankind, but is the consequence of acknowledged and indubitable positions, that •what has been longest known has been most considered, and what is most considered is best understood.
Seite 87 - 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.
Seite 18 - 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.
Seite 16 - fishes have the water, in which yet beasts can swim by nature, and men by art. He that can swim needs not despair to fly: to swim is to fly in a grosser fluid, and to fly is to swim in a subtler. We are only to proportion our power of resistance to the different density of matter through which we are to pass.