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Página 191
... Prince of Abissinia CHAP . I Description of a palace in a valley . Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy , and persue with eagerness the phantoms of hope ; who expect that age will perform the promises of youth , and ...
... Prince of Abissinia CHAP . I Description of a palace in a valley . Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy , and persue with eagerness the phantoms of hope ; who expect that age will perform the promises of youth , and ...
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... prince who stood next in succession . CHAP . II The discontent of Rasselas in the happy valley . Here the sons and daughters of Abissinia lived only to know the soft vicissitudes of pleasure and repose , attended by all that were ...
... prince who stood next in succession . CHAP . II The discontent of Rasselas in the happy valley . Here the sons and daughters of Abissinia lived only to know the soft vicissitudes of pleasure and repose , attended by all that were ...
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... Abissinia . I have often spent the hours , which the princess gave to my own disposal , in adjusting cere- monies ... prince , an indulgence of fan- tastick delight more dangerous than yours . I have fre- quently endeavoured to image the ...
... Abissinia . I have often spent the hours , which the princess gave to my own disposal , in adjusting cere- monies ... prince , an indulgence of fan- tastick delight more dangerous than yours . I have fre- quently endeavoured to image the ...
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Religious Progress | 3 |
Harry Hervey | 9 |
The Use of Catalogues 16 66 | 16 |
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Ambrose Philips ancient appeared Ashbourne attention believe Bennet Langton better blank verse Boswell Catiline censure character common considered conversation danger Dear death delight desire diligence Dryden easily elegance endeavour equally evil excellence expect eyes fancy faults favour fear folly Francis Barber frequent genius give Habit happiness Hebrides honour hope human humble servant imagination Johnson kind King knowledge labour language learning less lexicography Lichfield live Madam mankind manner ment metaphysical poets mind misery moral nature neglected never numbers observed once opinion pain Paradise Lost passions perhaps pleased pleasure poet poetry Pope praise present Prince of Abissinia produced publick Rasselas reason religion SAMUEL JOHNSON Scaliger seldom sentiments Shakespeare shew Skie sometimes suffered suppose surely talk Tatler tell terrour thing thought tion truth vanity verse virtue wish words write