History of Rasselas, Prince of AbyssiniaClarendon Press, 1898 - 203 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 43
... endured nor danger to be dreaded , yet here is all that labour or danger can procure 30 or purchase . Look round and tell me which of your wants allit is without supply : if you want nothing , how PRINCE OF ABYSSINIA . 43.
... endured nor danger to be dreaded , yet here is all that labour or danger can procure 30 or purchase . Look round and tell me which of your wants allit is without supply : if you want nothing , how PRINCE OF ABYSSINIA . 43.
الصفحة 45
... allit load of life was much lightened : he went eagerly into the assemblies , because he supposed the frequency of his pre- sence necessary to the success of his purposes ; he retired gladly to privacy , because he had now a subject of ...
... allit load of life was much lightened : he went eagerly into the assemblies , because he supposed the frequency of his pre- sence necessary to the success of his purposes ; he retired gladly to privacy , because he had now a subject of ...
الصفحة 48
... allit 30 He then examined the cavern through which the waters of the lake were discharged ; and , looking down at a time . when the sun shone strongly upon its mouth , he discovered it to be full of broken rocks , which , though they ...
... allit 30 He then examined the cavern through which the waters of the lake were discharged ; and , looking down at a time . when the sun shone strongly upon its mouth , he discovered it to be full of broken rocks , which , though they ...
الصفحة 52
... allit . The prince promised secresy , and waited for the per- formance , not wholly hopeless of success . He visited the 30 work from time to time , observed its progress , and remarked many ingenious contrivances to facilitate motion ...
... allit . The prince promised secresy , and waited for the per- formance , not wholly hopeless of success . He visited the 30 work from time to time , observed its progress , and remarked many ingenious contrivances to facilitate motion ...
الصفحة 53
... the pastures , and both the wild beasts and the tame retreated to the mountains . This inundation confined all the princes to domest 20 allit . amusements ; and the attention of Rasselas was particularly seized PRINCE OF ABYSSINIA . 53.
... the pastures , and both the wild beasts and the tame retreated to the mountains . This inundation confined all the princes to domest 20 allit . amusements ; and the attention of Rasselas was particularly seized PRINCE OF ABYSSINIA . 53.
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Abyssinia allit amuse Anatomy of Melancholy answered Imlac Arab astronomer Bassa began Boswell Boswell's Cairo CHAPTER choice companions considered conversation curiosity Cymbeline danger delight desire Dictionary dreadful earth Egypt endeavoured enjoy envy evil eyes father favour favourite fear felicity folly friends happy valley heard hope hour Human Wishes ignorance imagination inquire Janissaries Janizaries Johnson defines knowledge labour lady learning less live looked lost mankind marriage melan mind misery mountains nations nature Nekayah never Nile observed once opinion passed passions Pekuah Pembroke College Persia pleased pleasure poet possessed Post princess Pyramid Rasselas reason resolved rest returned sage Samuel Johnson says scrupulosity solitude sometimes soon sorrow soul sound of music Streatham suffer suppose talk Thomas Carlyle thou thought travelled truth Vanity of Human virtue weary wisdom wonder wrote youth
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الصفحة 13 - Is not a Patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help...
الصفحة 155 - Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty: For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo The means of weakness and debility; Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly: let me go with you; I'll do the service of a younger man In all your business and necessities.
الصفحة 157 - Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
الصفحة 13 - Dictionary 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.
الصفحة 140 - Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
الصفحة 13 - When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your Lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment...
الصفحة 149 - We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion.
الصفحة 180 - Secure whate'er he gives, he gives the best. Yet when the sense of sacred presence fires, And strong devotion to the skies aspires, Pour forth thy fervours for a healthful mind, Obedient passions, and a will resign'd; For love, which scarce collective man can fill; For patience sov'reign o'er transmuted ill; For faith, that panting for a happier seat, Counts death kind Nature's signal of retreat...
الصفحة 164 - Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness ? Why rather, Sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hush'd with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber, Than in the perfumed chambers of the great, Under the canopies of costly state, And lull'd with sounds of sweetest melody...
الصفحة 162 - Which neither groves nor happy valleys boast; Where other cares than those the Muse relates, And other shepherds dwell with other mates; By such examples taught, I paint the Cot, As Truth will paint it, and as Bards will not...