The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia: A TaleChiswick, 1829 - 205 Seiten |
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Abyssinia afford afraid amuse answered Imlac Arab astronomer bassa began Cairo cavern CHAP choice companions conceal condition considered continued conversation curiosity danger delight desire discovered diurnal motion dreadful easily emperor endeavoured enjoy entered envy escape evil expect eyes fancy father favour favourite fear felicity folly happy valley heard hermit hope hope and fear hour human ignorance imagination inhabitants inquiry knowledge labour lady learned less live lost maids mankind marriage ment mind misery mountains nations nature Nekayah never Nile observed once opinion palace Palestine passed Pekuah Persia pleased pleasure poet possession prince princess Pyramid Rasselas reason Red Sea rejoiced resolved rest retired retreat returned rich sage scrupulosity silent solitude sometimes soon sorrow sound of music stream suffer thing thou thought tion torrents streamed travelled virtue walk weary wisdom wonder youth
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Seite 33 - ... 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: he must therefore content himself with the slow progress of his name; contemn the applause of his own time, and commit his claims to the justice of posterity. He must write as the interpreter of nature, and the legislator of mankind, and consider himself as presiding over the thoughts and...
Seite 52 - He then communicated the various precepts given* from time to time for the conquest of passion, and displayed the happiness of those who had obtained the important victory, after which man is no longer the slave of fear, nor the fool of hope ; is no more emaciated by envy, inflamed by anger...
Seite 76 - But, surely, interposed the prince, you suppose the chief motive of choice forgotten or neglected. Whenever I shall seek a wife, it shall be my first question, whether she be willing to be led by reason ? Thus it is, said Nekayah, that philosophers are deceived. There are a thousand familiar disputes which reason never can decide ; questions that elude investigation, and make logic ridiculous ; cases where something must be done, and where little can be said.
Seite 61 - 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.
Seite 61 - Let them learn to be wise by easier means : let them observe the hind of the forest, and the linnet of the grove : let them consider the life of animals, whose motions are regulated by instinct ; they obey their guide, and are happy. Let us therefore, at length, cease to dispute, and learn to live ; throw away the...
Seite 7 - 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.
Seite 32 - ... 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 are alike obvious to vigilance...
Seite 13 - That I want nothing," said the prince," or that I know not what I want, is the cause of my complaint. If I had any known want, I should have a certain wish; that wish would excite endeavour, and I should not then repine to see the sun move so slowly towards the western mountain, or lament when the day breaks, and sleep will no longer hide me from myself.
Seite 12 - With 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 perspicacity, and to receive some solace of the miseries of life, from consciousness of the delicacy with i which he felt, and the eloquence with which he bewailed them.
Seite 53 - which you so powerfully enforced ? Has wisdom no strength to arm the heart against calamity? 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?