History of Rasselas, Prince of AbyssiniaH. Holt, 1895 - 179 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة iii
... tion , since this alone can give it a living interest to - day . The other parts of the introduction , it is hoped , will not prove useless . In making the notes , two purposes have been prom- inent . First , Rasselas has been largely ...
... tion , since this alone can give it a living interest to - day . The other parts of the introduction , it is hoped , will not prove useless . In making the notes , two purposes have been prom- inent . First , Rasselas has been largely ...
الصفحة iv
... tion of Birkbeck Hill . To the latter , also , the editor is grateful , as indeed every student of literature must pe , for the definitive editions of Boswell's Life of Johnson and of Johnson's Letters . CORNELL UNIVERSITY , March 30 ...
... tion of Birkbeck Hill . To the latter , also , the editor is grateful , as indeed every student of literature must pe , for the definitive editions of Boswell's Life of Johnson and of Johnson's Letters . CORNELL UNIVERSITY , March 30 ...
الصفحة v
... TION UPON POETRY , XI . IMLAC's NARRATIVE CONTINUED . PILGRIMAGE , · • XII . THE STORY OF IMLAC CONTINUED , XIII . XIV . RASSELAS AND IMLAC RECEIVE AN UNEXPECTED 333 3343 CHAPTER PAGE XV . THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS LEAVE THE.
... TION UPON POETRY , XI . IMLAC's NARRATIVE CONTINUED . PILGRIMAGE , · • XII . THE STORY OF IMLAC CONTINUED , XIII . XIV . RASSELAS AND IMLAC RECEIVE AN UNEXPECTED 333 3343 CHAPTER PAGE XV . THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS LEAVE THE.
الصفحة vii
... TION , XLIV . THE DANGEROUS PREVALENCE OF IMAGINA- · XLV . THEY DISCOURSE WITH AN OLD MAN , XLVI . THE PRINCESS AND PEKUAH VISIT THE ASTRONOMER , · XLVII . THE PRINCE ENTERS AND BRINGS A NEW TOPIC , PAGE 102 106 112 115 116 118 120 122 ...
... TION , XLIV . THE DANGEROUS PREVALENCE OF IMAGINA- · XLV . THEY DISCOURSE WITH AN OLD MAN , XLVI . THE PRINCESS AND PEKUAH VISIT THE ASTRONOMER , · XLVII . THE PRINCE ENTERS AND BRINGS A NEW TOPIC , PAGE 102 106 112 115 116 118 120 122 ...
الصفحة xii
... tion , and corrects some of the reports which the biog- raphers of Johnson have chronicled . First , instead of being written soon after his mother's death , as Boswell says , the book was practically complete on the day , or day before ...
... tion , and corrects some of the reports which the biog- raphers of Johnson have chronicled . First , instead of being written soon after his mother's death , as Boswell says , the book was practically complete on the day , or day before ...
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Abyssinia alliteration Amba Geshen amuse answered Imlac Arab astronomer Bassa began Cairo CHAPTER choice companions condition considered conversation curiosity danger Deists delight desire Dictionary dreadful edition Egypt eighteenth century emperor endeavored enjoy entered evil example expected fancy father favorite fear felicity folly Gentleman's Magazine happy valley heard hermit hope human imagination inquiry janissaries Johnson Johnson's style journey knowledge labor lady learned less live Lobo maids mankind marriage means mind misery mountains nature Nekayah ness never Nile Note observed opinion palace passed passion Pekuah perhaps Persia pleased pleasure poet possession present preterit Prince of Abyssinia princess pyramid Rambler Rasselas reason Red Sea resolved rest sage Samuel Johnson sense solitude sometimes soon sorrow sound of music story suffer suppose tale thou thought tion travelled virtue weary wonder word youth Zeila ΙΟ
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الصفحة 156 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the...
الصفحة 159 - Good and evil we know in the field of this world grow up together almost inseparably; and the knowledge of good is so involved and interwoven with the knowledge of evil...
الصفحة 28 - Whatever be the reason, it is commonly observed that the early writers are in possession of nature, and their followers of art: that the first excel in strength and invention, and the latter in elegance and refinement.
الصفحة 29 - ... be familiar to his imagination : he must be conversant 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...
الصفحة 19 - 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.
الصفحة 176 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for not without dust and heat.
الصفحة 153 - The reverence due to writings that have long subsisted arises therefore not from any credulous confidence in the superior wisdom of past ages, or gloomy persuasion of the degeneracy of mankind, but is the consequence of acknowledged and indubitable positions, that •what has been longest known has been most considered, and what is most considered is best understood.
الصفحة 87 - This opinion, which perhaps prevails as far as human nature is diffused, could become universal only by its truth : those that never heard of one another, would not have agreed in a tale which nothing but experience can make credible. That it is doubted by single cavillers, can very little weaken the general evidence : and some who deny it with their tongues, confess it by their fears.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 16 - fishes have the water, in which yet beasts can swim by nature, and men by art. He that can swim needs not despair to fly: to swim is to fly in a grosser fluid, and to fly is to swim in a subtler. We are only to proportion our power of resistance to the different density of matter through which we are to pass.