The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia: A TaleClarendon Press, 1927 - 221 Seiten |
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ABISSINIA afford afraid amuse answered Imlac Arab astronomer attention Bassa began Cairo cavern CHAP chearful choice companions condition considered continued conversation curiosity danger delight desire discovered ditions diurnal motion domestick dreadful easily edition endeavoured enjoy enquiry entered envy escape evil expect eyes fancy father favourite fear felicity folly happy valley heard hermit hope hope and fear human ignorance imagination knowledge labour learned less live looked maids mankind marriage ments mind misery mountains nature Nekayah ness never night Nile observed once opinion palace Palestine passed passions Persia persue pleased pleasure poet preter prince PRINCE OF ABISSINIA princess pyramid Rasselas reason red sea resolved rest retreat returned sage scrupulosity silent solitude sometimes soon sorrow suffer supposed surely tents terrour things thou thought tion torrents streamed travelled virtue vulg weary wonder youth
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Seite 98 - The prince soon found that this was one of the sages whom he should understand less as he heard him longer. He therefore bowed and was silent, and the philosopher, supposing him satisfied, and the rest vanquished, rose up and departed with the air of a man that had co-operated with the present system.
Seite 140 - 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 48 - 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 10 - The sages who instructed them, told them of nothing but the miseries of public life, and described all beyond the mountains as regions of calamity, where discord was always raging, and where man preyed upon man. To heighten their opinion of their own felicity, they were daily entertained with songs, the subject of which was the Happy Valley. Their appetites were excited by frequent enumerations of different enjoyments, and revelry and merriment was the business of every hour from the dawn of morning...
Seite 5 - 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 189 - 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 46 - Being now resolved to be a poet, I saw every thing with a new purpose; my sphere of attention was suddenly magnified: no kind of knowledge was to be overlooked. I ranged mountains and deserts for images and resemblances, and pictured upon my mind every tree of the forest and flower of the valley.
Seite 187 - 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. No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannise, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability. All power of fancy over reason is a degree of insanity...
Seite 47 - To a poet nothing can be useless. Whatever is beautiful and whatever is dreadful must be familiar to his imagination; he must be conversant with all that| is awfully vast or elegantly little.
Seite 28 - The labour of rising from the ground ," said the artist, "will be great, as we see it in the heavier domestic fowls, but as we mount higher, the earth's attraction and the body's gravity will be gradually diminished, till we shall arrive at a region where the man will float in the air without any tendency to fall: no care will then be necessary but to move forwards, which the gentlest impulse will effect. You, sir, whose curiosity is so extensive, will easily conceive with, Kasselas.