Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia: A TaleT. Bedlington, 1831 - 124 páginas |
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Abyssinia afford afraid amuse answered Imlac Arab astronomer Bassa began Cairo cavern CHAPTER choice companions conceal condition considered continued conversation criminal negligence curiosity danger delight desire domestick dreadful easily endeavoured enjoy enter envy escape evil expect eyes fancy father favour favourite fear felicity folly happy valley heard hermit hope hope and fear hour human imagination inquire knowledge kuah labour lady less live look lost maids mankind marriage ments messen mind misery mountains nations nature Nekayah ness never Nile observed once opinion palace Palestine panions passed passions Pekuah Persia pleased pleasure poet possession prince princess Pyramid Rasselas reason Red Sea resolved rest retired retreat returned rich sage scrupulosity silent solitude sometimes soon sorrow suffer supposed surely tents terrour thing thou thought tion travelled virtue weary wisdom wonder youth
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Página 31 - ... 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.
Página 19 - To survey with equal security the marts of trade, and the fields of battle; mountains infested by barbarians, and fruitful regions gladdened by plenty and lulled by peace! How easily shall we then trace the Nile through all his passage; pass over to distant regions, and examine the face of nature from one extremity of the earth to the other!
Página 10 - 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.
Página 114 - is so difficult of cure as that which is complicated with the dread of guilt: fancy and conscience then act interchangeably upon us, and so often shift their places that the illusions of one are not distinguished from the dictates of the other. If fancy presents images not moral or religious, the mind drives them away when they give it pain, but when...
Página 34 - They are surely happy, said the prince, who have all these conveniencies, of which I envy none so much as the facility with which separated friends interchange their thoughts." " The Europeans, answered Imlac, are less unhappy than we, but they are not happy. Human life is every where a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.
Página 50 - ... depressed by grief; but walks on calmly through the tumults or privacies of life, as the sun pursues alike his course through the calm or the stormy sky. He enumerated many examples of heroes immovable by pain or pleasure, who looked with indifference on those modes or accidents to which the vulgar give the names of good and evil.
Página 30 - 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 spriteliness of infancy to the despondence of decrepitude.
Página 29 - Being now resolved to be a poet, I saw every thing with a new purpose ; my sphere of attention was sud denly 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.
Página 20 - In a year the wings were finished; and on a morning appointed the maker appeared furnished for flight on a little promontory. He waved his pinions a while to gather air, then leaped from his stand, and in an instant dropped into the lake. His wings, which were of no use in the air, sustained him in the water, and the prince drew him to land, half dead with terror and vexation.
Página 58 - ... the forest, and the linnet of the grove : let them consider the life of animals, whose motions are regulated by instinct : they obey their guide, and are happy. Let us therefore, at length, cease to dispute, and learn to live ; throw away the...