Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia: A TaleBennett & Walton, 1811 - 179 Seiten |
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... lost was certain , for I have certainly possessed it ; but of twenty months to come who can assure me ? " The consciousness of his own folly pierced him deeply , and he was long before he could be reconciled to himself . " The rest of ...
... lost was certain , for I have certainly possessed it ; but of twenty months to come who can assure me ? " The consciousness of his own folly pierced him deeply , and he was long before he could be reconciled to himself . " The rest of ...
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... lost much of the reverence with which I had been used to look on my instructors ; be- cause , when the lesson was ended , I did not find them wiser or better than common men . " At length my father resolved to initiate me in commerce ...
... lost much of the reverence with which I had been used to look on my instructors ; be- cause , when the lesson was ended , I did not find them wiser or better than common men . " At length my father resolved to initiate me in commerce ...
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... lost sight of land I looked round about me with pleasing terror , and thinking my soul enlarged by the boundless prospects , imagined that I could gaze round for ever without satiety ; but , in a short time , I grew weary of looking on ...
... lost sight of land I looked round about me with pleasing terror , and thinking my soul enlarged by the boundless prospects , imagined that I could gaze round for ever without satiety ; but , in a short time , I grew weary of looking on ...
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... lost . They hastened early in the morning to choose a place proper for their mine . They clambered with great fatigue among crags and brambles , and return- ed without having discovered any part that favoured their design . The second ...
... lost . They hastened early in the morning to choose a place proper for their mine . They clambered with great fatigue among crags and brambles , and return- ed without having discovered any part that favoured their design . The second ...
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... lost an op- portunity of showing his confidence by a vo- luntary communication . It was therefore agreed that she should leave the valley with them ; and that , in the mean time , she should watch , lest any other straggler should , by ...
... lost an op- portunity of showing his confidence by a vo- luntary communication . It was therefore agreed that she should leave the valley with them ; and that , in the mean time , she should watch , lest any other straggler should , by ...
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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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Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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...