Rasselas, Prince of AbissiniaP. Rusher; and sold, 1804 - 135 Seiten |
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... envy me that walk thus among you , burthened with myself ; nor do I , ye gentle beings , envy your felicity ; for it is not the felicity of man . I have many distresses from which ye are free ; I fear pain when I do not feel it : I ...
... envy me that walk thus among you , burthened with myself ; nor do I , ye gentle beings , envy your felicity ; for it is not the felicity of man . I have many distresses from which ye are free ; I fear pain when I do not feel it : I ...
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... envy others so Great an advantage ? All skill ought to be ex- erted for universal Good ; every man has owed much to others , and ought to repay the kindness that he has received . " " If men were all virtuous , " returned the artist ...
... envy others so Great an advantage ? All skill ought to be ex- erted for universal Good ; every man has owed much to others , and ought to repay the kindness that he has received . " " If men were all virtuous , " returned the artist ...
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... their flocks and herds ; and who have carried on , through ages , an hereditary war with mankind , though they neither covet nor envy their Pos- sessions . J CHAP . X. IMLAC'S HISTORY CONTINUED . UPON POETRY . 26 RASSELAS .
... their flocks and herds ; and who have carried on , through ages , an hereditary war with mankind , though they neither covet nor envy their Pos- sessions . J CHAP . X. IMLAC'S HISTORY CONTINUED . UPON POETRY . 26 RASSELAS .
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... envy none so much as the facility with which sepa- rated friends interchange their thoughts . " " The Europeans , " answered Imlac , " are less unhappy than we , but they are not happy . Hu- man life is every where a state in which much ...
... envy none so much as the facility with which sepa- rated friends interchange their thoughts . " " The Europeans , " answered Imlac , " are less unhappy than we , but they are not happy . Hu- man life is every where a state in which much ...
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... envy is repressed by community of enjoyments , " " There may be community , " said Imlac , " of material possessions , but there can never be com- munity of love or of esteem . It must happen that one will please more than another ; he ...
... envy is repressed by community of enjoyments , " " There may be community , " said Imlac , " of material possessions , but there can never be com- munity of love or of esteem . It must happen that one will please more than another ; he ...
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able afford afraid amuse answered Imlac Arab astronomer attention BANBURY Bassa began Cairo CHAP choice companions conceal considered continued conversation curiosity danger delight desire discovered dreadful easily endeavoured enjoy entered envy escape evil expected experience eyes fancy father favour favourite fear felicity folly happy valley hear heard hermit hope hope and fear hour human imagination inhabitants inquiry knowledge kuah labour lady lence less live looked maids mankind marriage mind misery mountains nations nature Nekayah ness never Nile observed once opinion palace passed Pekuah Persia pleased pleasure poet PRINCE OF ABISSINIA princess pyramid Rasselas reason red sea resolved rest retired retreat returned rich sage scrupulosity shewed solitude sometimes soon sorrow sound of music suffer supposed surely tain thing thou thought tion travelled turbed virtue weary wisdom wonder youth
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Seite 115 - 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. By degrees the reign of fancy is confirmed; she grows first imperious, and in time despotic. Then fictions begin to operate as realities, false opinions fasten upon the mind, and life passes in dreams of rapture or...
Seite 28 - 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 29 - 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 94 - ... remain uninjured, nature will find the means of reparation. Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye, and while we glide along the stream of time, whatever we leave behind us is always lessening, and that which we approach increasing in magnitude. Do not suffer life to stagnate ; it will grow muddy for want of motion : commit yourself again to the current of the world ; Pekuah will vanish by degrees; you will meet in your way some other favourite, or learn to diffuse yourself in...
Seite 115 - 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 29 - He must divest himself of the prejudices of his age or country ; he must consider right and wrong in 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...
Seite 7 - With observations like these the prince amused himself as he returned, uttering them with a plaintive voice, yet with a look that discovered him to feel some complacence in his own perspicacity, and to receive some solace of the miseries of life, from consciousness of the delicacy with which he felt, and the eloquence with which he bewailed them.
Seite 86 - I consider this mighty structure as a monument of the insufficiency of human enjoyments. A king, whose power is unlimited, and whose treasures surmount all real and imaginary wants, is compelled to solace, by the erection of a pyramid, the satiety of dominion and tastelessness of pleasures, and to amuse the tediousness of declining life, by seeing thousands labouring without end, and one stone, for no purpose, laid upon another.
Seite 27 - And yet it fills me with wonder, that, in almost all countries, the most ancient poets are considered as the best: whether it be that every other kind of knowledge is an acquisition gradually attained, and poetry is a gift conferred at once; or that the first poetry of every nation surprised them as a novelty, and retained the credit by consent, which it received by accident at first; or whether, as the province of poetry is to describe Nature and Passion, which are always the same...
Seite 52 - Consider that external things are naturally variable, but truth and reason are always the same." "What comfort," said the mourner, "can truth and reason afford me? Of what effect are they now, but to tell me that my daughter will not be restored?