History of Rasselas, Prince of AbyssiniaClarendon Press, 1898 - 203 Seiten |
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... desire was immediately granted . All the artificers of pleasure were called to gladden the festivity ; the musicians exerted the power of harmony , and the dancers showed their activity before the princes , in hope that they should pass ...
... desire was immediately granted . All the artificers of pleasure were called to gladden the festivity ; the musicians exerted the power of harmony , and the dancers showed their activity before the princes , in hope that they should pass ...
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... desires distinct from sense , which must be satisfied before he can be happy . ' After this he lifted up his head , and seeing the moon rising , walked towards the palace . As he passed through the fields , and saw the animals around ...
... desires distinct from sense , which must be satisfied before he can be happy . ' After this he lifted up his head , and seeing the moon rising , walked towards the palace . As he passed through the fields , and saw the animals around ...
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... desire . ' 1 The old man was surprised at this new species of afflic- 20 tion , and knew not what to reply , yet was unwilling to be silent . " Sir , ' said he , if you had seen the miseries of the world , you would know how to value ...
... desire . ' 1 The old man was surprised at this new species of afflic- 20 tion , and knew not what to reply , yet was unwilling to be silent . " Sir , ' said he , if you had seen the miseries of the world , you would know how to value ...
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... desire of doing some- thing , though he knew not yet with distinctness either end or means . • He was now no longer gloomy and unsocial ; but , con- sidering himself as master of a secret stock of happiness , which he could enjoy only ...
... desire of doing some- thing , though he knew not yet with distinctness either end or means . • He was now no longer gloomy and unsocial ; but , con- sidering himself as master of a secret stock of happiness , which he could enjoy only ...
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... desire of passing the 20 mountains : having seen what the mechanist had already performed , he was willing to fancy that he could do more ; yet resolved to inquire further , before he suffered hope to afflict him by disappointment . I ...
... desire of passing the 20 mountains : having seen what the mechanist had already performed , he was willing to fancy that he could do more ; yet resolved to inquire further , before he suffered hope to afflict him by disappointment . I ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Abyssinia allit amuse Anatomy of Melancholy answered Imlac Arab astronomer Bassa began Boswell Boswell's Cairo CHAPTER choice companions considered conversation curiosity Cymbeline danger delight desire Dictionary dreadful earth Egypt endeavoured enjoy envy evil eyes father favour favourite fear felicity folly friends happy valley heard hope hour Human Wishes ignorance imagination inquire Janissaries Janizaries Johnson defines knowledge labour lady learning less live looked lost mankind marriage melan mind misery mountains nations nature Nekayah never Nile observed once opinion passed passions Pekuah Pembroke College Persia pleased pleasure poet possessed Post princess Pyramid Rasselas reason resolved rest returned sage Samuel Johnson says scrupulosity solitude sometimes soon sorrow soul sound of music Streatham suffer suppose talk Thomas Carlyle thou thought travelled truth Vanity of Human virtue weary wisdom wonder wrote youth
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 13 - Is not a Patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help...
Seite 155 - Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty: For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo The means of weakness and debility; Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly: let me go with you; I'll do the service of a younger man In all your business and necessities.
Seite 157 - Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
Seite 13 - Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your Lordship. To be so distinguished is an honour which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge.
Seite 140 - Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
Seite 13 - When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your Lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment...
Seite 149 - We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion.
Seite 180 - Secure whate'er he gives, he gives the best. Yet when the sense of sacred presence fires, And strong devotion to the skies aspires, Pour forth thy fervours for a healthful mind, Obedient passions, and a will resign'd; For love, which scarce collective man can fill; For patience sov'reign o'er transmuted ill; For faith, that panting for a happier seat, Counts death kind Nature's signal of retreat...
Seite 164 - Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness ? Why rather, Sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hush'd with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber, Than in the perfumed chambers of the great, Under the canopies of costly state, And lull'd with sounds of sweetest melody...
Seite 162 - Which neither groves nor happy valleys boast; Where other cares than those the Muse relates, And other shepherds dwell with other mates; By such examples taught, I paint the Cot, As Truth will paint it, and as Bards will not...