The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia: A TaleAnd sold at Paris by Theophilus Barrois, Jun. bookseller, 1815 - 264 Seiten |
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... pleasure were called to gladden the festivity ; the musicians exerted the power of harmony , and the dancers shewed their activity before the princes , in hope that they should pass their lives in this blissful captivity , to which ...
... pleasure were called to gladden the festivity ; the musicians exerted the power of harmony , and the dancers shewed their activity before the princes , in hope that they should pass their lives in this blissful captivity , to which ...
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... pleasure and repose , attended by all that were skilful to delight , and gratified with whatever the senses can enjoy . They wan dered in gardens of fragrance , and slept in the fortresses of security . Every art was practised to make ...
... pleasure and repose , attended by all that were skilful to delight , and gratified with whatever the senses can enjoy . They wan dered in gardens of fragrance , and slept in the fortresses of security . Every art was practised to make ...
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... pleasure , yet I do not feel myself delighted . 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 . " After this he ...
... pleasure , yet I do not feel myself delighted . 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 . " After this he ...
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... pleasures of the " I fly palace , to loneliness and silence . from pleasure , " said the prince , “ because pleasure has ceased to please ; I am lonely because I am miserable , and am unwilling to cloud with my presence the happiness of ...
... pleasures of the " I fly palace , to loneliness and silence . from pleasure , " said the prince , “ because pleasure has ceased to please ; I am lonely because I am miserable , and am unwilling to cloud with my presence the happiness of ...
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... pleasure , and the exercise of virtue . How long is it that my hopes and wishes have flown beyond this boundary of my life , which yet I never have attempted to surmount ! " • · Struck with this reflection , he sat down to muse ; and ...
... pleasure , and the exercise of virtue . How long is it that my hopes and wishes have flown beyond this boundary of my life , which yet I never have attempted to surmount ! " • · Struck with this reflection , he sat down to muse ; and ...
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Seite 224 - 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.
Seite 87 - 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.
Seite 68 - 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.
Seite 151 - ... vicious delights. 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,...
Seite 162 - Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden, meeting by chance or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness before had concealed: they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.
Seite 87 - But the knowledge of nature is only half the task of a poet; he must be acquainted likewise with all the modes of life. His character requires that he estimate the happiness and misery of every condition ; observe the power of all the passions in all their combinations, and trace the changes of the human mind as they are modified by various institutions and accidental influences of climate or custom, from the sprightliness of infancy to the despondence of decrepitude.
Seite 85 - Arabia, and was able to repeat by memory the volumes that are suspended in the mosque of Mecca. But I soon found that no man was ever great by imitation. My desire of excellence impelled me to transfer my attention to nature and to life. Nature was to be my subject, and men to be my auditors: I could never describe what I had not seen: I could not hope to move those with delight or terror, whose interests and opinions I did not understand.
Seite 225 - In time, some particular train of ideas fixes the attention, all other intellectual gratifications are rejected, the mind, in weariness or leisure, recurs constantly to the favourite conception, and feasts on the luscious falsehood, whenever she is offended with the bitterness of truth.
Seite 216 - Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless; and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
Seite 122 - 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...