Rasselas: A TaleGeorge Ramsay, 1809 - 155 pagina's |
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Pagina xx
... passing over him . " Sir John Hawkins has preserved a list of literary projects of no less than thirty - nine articles , which he had formed in the course of his studies ; but such was his want of encouragement , or the ver- satility of ...
... passing over him . " Sir John Hawkins has preserved a list of literary projects of no less than thirty - nine articles , which he had formed in the course of his studies ; but such was his want of encouragement , or the ver- satility of ...
Pagina xxvii
... passed , since I waited in your outward rooms , or was repulsed from your door ; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties of which it is useless to complain , and have brought it at last to the verge of ...
... passed , since I waited in your outward rooms , or was repulsed from your door ; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties of which it is useless to complain , and have brought it at last to the verge of ...
Pagina xxx
... passing over him . The subscriptions taken in for his edition of Shakespeare , and the profits of his miscellaneous essays , were now his principal resource for subsistence . In 1756 he engaged to superintend , and contribute largely ...
... passing over him . The subscriptions taken in for his edition of Shakespeare , and the profits of his miscellaneous essays , were now his principal resource for subsistence . In 1756 he engaged to superintend , and contribute largely ...
Pagina 7
... passed their lives in full conviction that they had all within their reach that art or nature could bestow , and pitied those whom nature had excluded from this seat of tranquillity , as the sport of chance and the slaves of misery ...
... passed their lives in full conviction that they had all within their reach that art or nature could bestow , and pitied those whom nature had excluded from this seat of tranquillity , as the sport of chance and the slaves of misery ...
Pagina 14
... passed twenty months of the life of Rasselas . He busied himself so intensely in visionary bustle , that he forgot his real solitude ; and , amidst hourly preparations for the various incidents of human affairs , neglected to consider ...
... passed twenty months of the life of Rasselas . He busied himself so intensely in visionary bustle , that he forgot his real solitude ; and , amidst hourly preparations for the various incidents of human affairs , neglected to consider ...
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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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Pagina xxvii - When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment...
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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,...
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.