Johnson History of Rasselas Prince of Abyssinia1958 |
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Page 45
... endeavoured to make others pleased with the state of which he himself was weary . But pleasures never can be so multiplied or con- tinued , as not to leave much of life unemployed ; there were many hours , both of the night and day ...
... endeavoured to make others pleased with the state of which he himself was weary . But pleasures never can be so multiplied or con- tinued , as not to leave much of life unemployed ; there were many hours , both of the night and day ...
Page 116
... endeavoured to gain some intelligence by private agents . He found many who pretended to an exact knowledge of all the haunts of the Arabs , and to regular correspondence with their chiefs , and who readily under- took the recovery of ...
... endeavoured to gain some intelligence by private agents . He found many who pretended to an exact knowledge of all the haunts of the Arabs , and to regular correspondence with their chiefs , and who readily under- took the recovery of ...
Page 171
... endeavoured , and would be foolish , if it were possible . 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 ...
... endeavoured , and would be foolish , if it were possible . 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 ...
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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 maids mankind marriage melan mind misery mountains Mughal nature Nekayah never Nile observed once opinion Paradise Lost passed passion Pekuah Persia pleased pleasure poet Post prince 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