Rasselas: A TaleLongman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860 - 203 Seiten |
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... month dropped fruits upon the ground . All animals that bite the grass , or browse the shrub , whether wild or tame , wandered in this extensive circuit , secured from beasts of prey by 8 the mountains which confined them . On one part ...
... month dropped fruits upon the ground . All animals that bite the grass , or browse the shrub , whether wild or tame , wandered in this extensive circuit , secured from beasts of prey by 8 the mountains which confined them . On one part ...
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... always terminated his projects in the relief of distress , the detection of fraud , the defeat of oppression , and the diffusion of happiness . Thus passed twenty months of the life of Rasselas . 10 THE HISTORY OF RASSELAS ,
... always terminated his projects in the relief of distress , the detection of fraud , the defeat of oppression , and the diffusion of happiness . Thus passed twenty months of the life of Rasselas . 10 THE HISTORY OF RASSELAS ,
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... months with the life of man . " In life , " said he , " is not to be counted the ignorance of infancy , or imbecility of age . We are long before we are able to think , and we soon cease from the power of acting . The true period of 45 ...
... months with the life of man . " In life , " said he , " is not to be counted the ignorance of infancy , or imbecility of age . We are long before we are able to think , and we soon cease from the power of acting . The true period of 45 ...
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... months to come who can assure me ? " The consciousness of his own folly pierced him deeply , and he was long before he could be reconciled to himself . " The rest of my time " said he " has been lost by the crime or folly of my ...
... months to come who can assure me ? " The consciousness of his own folly pierced him deeply , and he was long before he could be reconciled to himself . " The rest of my time " said he " has been lost by the crime or folly of my ...
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... months . The time , however , passed cheerfully away in the morning he rose with new hope , in the evening applauded his own diligence , and in the night slept sound after his fatigue . 53 He met a thousand amusements which beguiled his ...
... months . The time , however , passed cheerfully away in the morning he rose with new hope , in the evening applauded his own diligence , and in the night slept sound after his fatigue . 53 He met a thousand amusements which beguiled his ...
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Seite 183 - is to examine, not the individual, but the species ; to remark general properties and large appearances ; he does not number the streaks of the tulip, or describe the different shades in the verdure of the forest. He is to exhibit in his portraits of nature such prominent and striking features, as recall the original to every mind ; and must neglect the minuter discriminations, which one may have remarked, and another have neglected, for those characteristics which are alike obvious to vigilance...
Seite 29 - The business of a poet," said Imlac, "is to examine, not the individual, but the species; to remark general properties and large appearances. He does not number the streaks of the tulip, or describe the different shades in the verdure of the forest...
Seite 28 - ... 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, the first writers took possession of the most striking objects for description, and the most probable occurrences for fiction, and left nothing to those that followed them, but transcription of the same events, and new combinations of the same images.
Seite 75 - Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness before had concealed : they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.
Seite 30 - ... 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 superior to time...
Seite 115 - DISORDERS of intellect," answered Imlac, "happen much more often than superficial observers will easily believe. 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.
Seite 1 - 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 135 - The prince desired a little kingdom, in which he might administer justice in his own person, and see all the parts of government with his own eyes ; but he could never fix the limits of his dominion, and was always adding to the number of his subjects. Imlac and the astronomer were contented to be driven along the stream of life, without directing their course to any particular port.
Seite 59 - ... ashamed to think that I could not secure myself from vice, but by retiring from the exercise of virtue, and begin to suspect 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 escape the example of bad men, I want likewise the counsel and conversation of the good. I have been long comparing the evils with the advantages of society, and resolve to return...
Seite 18 - I should with great alacrity teach them all to fly. But what would be the security of the good, if the bad could at pleasure invade them from the sky ? Against an army sailing through the clouds, neither walls, nor mountains, nor seas, could afford any security.