The History of Rasselas, Prince of AbyssiniaT. Fisher Unwin, 1883 - 152 頁 |
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Abyssinia afford afraid amuse answered Imlac Arab astronomer attention Bassa began Cairo cavern CHAPTER choice clouds companions conceal condition considered continued conversation criminal negligence curiosity danger delight desire discovered Dr Johnson dreadful easily Egypt endeavoured enjoy entered envy escape evil expect eyes fancy father favour favourite fear felicity folly happy valley hear heard hermit hope hope and fear hour human ignorance imagination inhabitants inquire knowledge labour lady learned less live looked maids mankind marriage mind misery mountains nature Nekayah never Nile observed once opinion palace Palestine passed passions Pekuah Persia pleased pleasure poet possessed prince princess pyramid Rasselas reason Red Sea rejoice resolved rest retired retreat returned rich sage scrupulosity silent solitude sometimes soon sorrow sound of music suffer suppose thou thought tion travelled virtue weary wisdom wonder youth
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第 66 頁 - My fancy riots in scenes of folly, and I lament that I have lost so much, and have gained so little. In solitude, if I escape the example of bad men, I want likewise the 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.
第 59 頁 - Have you then forgot the precepts, said Rasselas, which you so powerfully enforced ? Has wisdom no strength to arm the heart against calamity? Consider, that external things are naturally variable, but truth and reason are always the same.
第 32 頁 - 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.
第 2 頁 - The place which the wisdom or policy of antiquity had destined for the residence of the Abyssinian princes was a spacious valley in the kingdom of Amhara, surrounded on every side by mountains, of which the summits overhang the middle part.
第 9 頁 - Look round and tell me which of your wants is without supply: if you want nothing, how are you unhappy?" " That I want nothing," said the prince, " or that I know not what I want, is the cause of my complaint...
第 38 頁 - My children should by my care be learned and pious, and would repay to my age what their childhood had received. What would dare to molest him who might call on every side to thousands enriched by his bounty or assisted by his power? And why should not life glide quietly away in the soft reciprocation of protection and reverence?
第 3 頁 - ... prey by the mountains which confined them. On one part were flocks and herds feeding in the pastures, on another all the beasts of chase frisking in the lawns ; the sprightly kid was bounding on the rocks, the subtle monkey frolicking in the trees, and the solemn elephant reposing in the shade. All the diversities of the world were brought together, the blessings of nature were collected, and its evils extracted and excluded.
第 84 頁 - I cannot forbear to flatter myself, that prudence and benevolence will make marriage happy. The general folly of mankind is the cause of general complaint. What can be expected but disappointment and repentance from a choice made in the immaturity of youth, in the ardour of desire, without judgment, without foresight, without inquiry after conformity of opinions, similarity of manners, rectitude of judgment, or purity of sentiment?
第 78 頁 - ... abroad ; and, as the outlaws of human nature, make it their business and their pleasure to disturb that society which debars them from its privileges. To live without feeling or exciting sympathy, to be fortunate without adding to the felicity of others, or afflicted without tasting the balm of pity, is a state more gloomy than solitude : it is not retreat, but exclusion from mankind. Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
第 57 頁 - I have found," said the prince, at his return to Imlac, " a man who can teach all that is necessary to be known, who from the unshaken throne of rational fortitude, looks down on the scenes of life changing beneath him. He speaks, and attention watches his lips. He reasons, and conviction closes his periods. This man shall be my future guide : I will learn his doctrines, and imitate his life.