 Here the sons and daughters of Abissinia lived only to know the soft vicissitudes of pleasure and repose, attended by all that were skilful to delight, and gratified with whatever the senses can enjoy. They wandered in gardens of fragrance, and slept...  Rasselas: A Tale - Page 7by Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 155 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 466 pages
...RAS&ELAS IN THE VALLEY. HERE the sons and daughters of Abissinia lived only to know the soft vicissitudes of pleasure and repose, attended by all that were...the senses can enjoy* They wandered in gardens of fragtance, and slept in the fortresses of security. Every art was practised to make them pleased with... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 278 pages
...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...the senses can enjoy. They wandered in gardens of fragrace, and slept in the fortresses of security. Every art was practised to make them pleased with... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 582 pages
...THE HAPPY VALLEY. HEBE the sons and daughters of Abissinia lived only to know the soft vicissitudes of pleasure and repose, attended by all that were...instructed them, told them of nothing but the miseries of publick life, and described all beyond the mountains as regions of calamity, where discord was always... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1823 - 768 pages
...the Happy Valley. HERE the sons and daughters of Abyssinia lived only to know the soft vicissitudes of pleasure and repose, attended by all that were...gardens of fragrance, and slept in the fortresses of secu, rity. Every art was practised to make them pleased with their own condition. The sages who instructed... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 594 pages
...THE HAPPY VALLEY. HERE the sous and daughters of Abissinia lived only to know the soft vicissitudes of pleasure and repose, attended by all that were...whatever the senses can enjoy. They wandered in gardens ofjragrance, and 'slept in the Jortresses of security. Every art was practised to raake them pleased... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 548 pages
...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...who instructed them, told them of nothing but the mi-°ries of public life, and described all beyond the mountains as regions of calamity, where discord... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 64 pages
...daughters of Abyssinia lived only to know the soft vicissitudes of pleasure and repose, attended by I all that were skilful to delight, and gratified with...can enjoy. They wandered in gardens of fragrance, tmd slept in the fortresses of security. Every art was practised to make them pleased with their own... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 750 pages
...the hapjiy Volley. HERE the sons and daughters of Abissinh lived only to know the soft vicissitudes of pleasure and repose, attended by all that were...mountains as regions of calamity, where discord was al ways raging, and where man preyed upon man. To heighten their opinion of their own felicity, they... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 508 pages
...HERE the sons and daughters of Abissinia, lived only to ( know the soft vicissitudes of pleasure /aid repose, attended by all that were skilful to delight,...instructed them, told them of nothing but the miseries of publick life, and described all beyond the mountains, as regions of calamity, where discord was always... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 728 pages
...sons and daughters of Abissinia lived only to know the soft^vieissitudes «f pleasure _and_rgpQse, attended by all that were skilful to delight, and...instructed them, told them of nothing but the miseries of publick life, and described all beyond the mountains as regions of calamity, where discord was always... | |
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