Rasselas: A TaleGeorge Ramsay, 1809 - 155 strani |
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Stran xliv
... virtues . To the warm active benevolence of his heart , all his friends have borne testimony . " He had no- thing , " says Goldsmith , " of the bear but his skin . " Misfortune had only to form her claim , in order to found her right to ...
... virtues . To the warm active benevolence of his heart , all his friends have borne testimony . " He had no- thing , " says Goldsmith , " of the bear but his skin . " Misfortune had only to form her claim , in order to found her right to ...
Stran 14
... that hinders at once the enjoyment of pleasure , and the ex- ercise 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 ! " 14 RASSELAS .
... that hinders at once the enjoyment of pleasure , and the ex- ercise 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 ! " 14 RASSELAS .
Stran 26
... virtue animated by youth : the time will come when you will acquit your father , and perhaps hear with less impatience of the governor . Oppression is , in the Abissinian dominions , neither frequent nor tolerated ; but no form of ...
... virtue animated by youth : the time will come when you will acquit your father , and perhaps hear with less impatience of the governor . Oppression is , in the Abissinian dominions , neither frequent nor tolerated ; but no form of ...
Stran 62
... virtue made him venerable , could teach any peculiar art of shunning , evils , or en- during them . Imlac and the princess agreed to accompany him , and , after the necessary preparations , they began their journey . Their way lay ...
... virtue made him venerable , could teach any peculiar art of shunning , evils , or en- during them . Imlac and the princess agreed to accompany him , and , after the necessary preparations , they began their journey . Their way lay ...
Stran 68
... virtue , and begin to sus- pect that I was rather impelled by resentment , than led by devotion into solitude . My fancy riots in scenes of folly , and I lament that I have lost so much , and have gained so little . In solitude , if I ...
... virtue , and begin to sus- pect that I was rather impelled by resentment , than led by devotion into solitude . My fancy riots in scenes of folly , and I lament that I have lost so much , and have gained so little . In solitude , if I ...
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Abissinia able acquaintance afford amuse answered Imlac appeared Arab astronomer Bassa began Cairo CHAP choice companions condition considered continued conversation curiosity danger delight desire dreadful easily endeavoured enjoy enter envy evil expect eyes father favour favourite fear felicity folly Garrick Gentleman's Magazine happy valley heard hermit honour hope human imagination inquire kayah knowledge labour lady less live looked Lord Lord Chesterfield Lord Gower maids mankind manners marriage mind misery mountains nature Nekayah ness never Nile observed opinion palace passed passion Pekuah pleased pleasure poet possession prince Princess pyramid Rasselas reason resolved rest retired retreat returned sage SAMUEL JOHNSON Satire of Juvenal shewed Sir John Hawkins Sir Joshua Reynolds solitude sometimes soon sorrow suffer suppose thing thou thought Thrale tion University of Oxford virtue weary wonder youth
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Stran xxvii - When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment...
Stran xxvii - 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.
Stran 35 - ... 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 manners of future generations — as a being...
Stran 132 - 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 tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability.
Stran 72 - 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.
Stran 96 - I will not undertake to maintain against the concurrent and unvaried testimony of all ages, and of all nations. There is no people, rude or learned, among whom apparitions of the dead are not related and believed. This opinion, which prevails as far as human nature is diffused, could become universal only by its truth...
Stran 7 - Here the sons and daughters of Abissinia 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. Every art was practised to make them pleased with their own condition. The sages who instructed them, told them of nothing but the miseries of publick life, and described all beyond the mountains as regions of calamity,...
Stran 34 - ... with all that is awfully vast or elegantly little. The plants of the garden, the animals of the wood, the minerals of the earth, and meteors of the sky, must all concur to store his mind with inexhaustible variety : for every idea is useful for the enforcement or decoration of moral or religious truth ; and he, who knows most, will have most power of diversifying his scenes, and of gratifying his reader with remote allusions and unexpected instruction. " All the appearances of nature I was therefore...
Stran 68 - I want likewise the 25 counsel and conversation of the good. I have been long comparing the evils with the advantages of society, and resolve to return into the world to-morrow. The life of a solitary man will be certainly miserable, but not certainly devout.
Stran 90 - 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.