The History of Rasselas, Prince of AbissiniaOxford University Press, 1887 - Всего страниц: 145 Novel about a prince who leaves the "happy valley" to pursue the choice of life. |
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... writer of his time , ' makes a kind of era in literature 1 . ' In one , and in one thing only , did fortune favour him . He was bred in the midst of books , for he had the run of his father's shop . One day he climbed up to a shelf in ...
... writer of his time , ' makes a kind of era in literature 1 . ' In one , and in one thing only , did fortune favour him . He was bred in the midst of books , for he had the run of his father's shop . One day he climbed up to a shelf in ...
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... writer on the Gentleman's Magazine , which was then in the first years of its long existence . For it he wrote short poems , reviews , essays , biographies of eminent men , and his Parliamentary debates . Of these speeches , though they ...
... writer on the Gentleman's Magazine , which was then in the first years of its long existence . For it he wrote short poems , reviews , essays , biographies of eminent men , and his Parliamentary debates . Of these speeches , though they ...
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... writing , and contributed many papers to a publication started by his friend , Dr. Hawkes- worth , under the name of The Adventurer . When his Dic- tionary was on the eve of publication the University of Oxford made some atonement for ...
... writing , and contributed many papers to a publication started by his friend , Dr. Hawkes- worth , under the name of The Adventurer . When his Dic- tionary was on the eve of publication the University of Oxford made some atonement for ...
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... writing what is only the second , if indeed it is the second , of his works . The Dictionary was the greater achievement , but , unlike it , the Lives of the Poets can never be superseded . ' The enthusiasm with which the Dictionary was ...
... writing what is only the second , if indeed it is the second , of his works . The Dictionary was the greater achievement , but , unlike it , the Lives of the Poets can never be superseded . ' The enthusiasm with which the Dictionary was ...
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... writing the book all the week . ' He told Sir Joshua Reynolds that he composed Rasselas in the evenings of one week , sent it to the press in portions as it was written , and had never since read it over . ' It was on Saturday , January ...
... writing the book all the week . ' He told Sir Joshua Reynolds that he composed Rasselas in the evenings of one week , sent it to the press in portions as it was written , and had never since read it over . ' It was on Saturday , January ...
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Abyssinia Anatomy of Melancholy answered Imlac Arab astronomer Bassa began Boswell Boswell's Cairo CHAPTER choice companions considered conversation curiosity Cymbeline danger death delight desire Dictionary dreadful Egypt endeavoured enjoy entered evil eyes fancy father favour favourite fear felicity folly friends happy valley heard honour hope hour Human Wishes imagination inquire Janissaries Janizaries Johnson defines knowledge labour lady learning less live looked lost mankind marriage melan mind misery mountains nature Nekayah never Nile observed once opinion passed passion Pekuah Pembroke College Persia pleased pleasure poet Post princess Pyramid Rambler Rasselas reason resolved returned sage Samuel Johnson says scrupulosity silent solitude sometimes soon sorrow soul sound of music Streatham suffer suppose talk Thomas Carlyle thou thought travelled Vanity of Human virtue weary wisdom wonder wrote youth ΙΟ
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Стр. 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...
Стр. 177 - 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.
Стр. 162 - 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.
Стр. 179 - 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.
Стр. 186 - O Sleep, O gentle Sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness...
Стр. 13 - When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment...
Стр. 159 - Even such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with earth and dust ; Who, in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days ; But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust ! ELIZABETHAN MISCELLANIES.
Стр. 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.
Стр. 62 - 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.
Стр. 19 - And that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have ; but, in their stead, Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not.