 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 - 1825 - 504 pages
...the prince, who stood next in succession. CHAP. II. THE DISCONTENT OF RASSELAS IN THE HAPPY VALLEY. by all that were skilful to delight, and gratified...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 - 514 pages
...the prince, who stood next in succession. CHAP. II. THE DISCONTENT OF RA8SELAS IN THE HAPPY VALLEY. by all that were skilful to delight, and gratified...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 - 504 pages
...the prince, who stood next in succession. CHAP. II. THE DISCONTENT OF RASSELAS IN THE HAPPY VALLEY. by all that were skilful to delight, and gratified with whatever the senses can enjoy. They wandered hi gardens of fragrance, and slept in the fortresses of security. Every art was practised, to make... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 508 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 skilful to delight, aud gratified with whatever the senses can enjoy. They wandered in gardens of fragrance, and slept... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1846 - 416 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...instructed them told them of nothing but the miseries of publie life, and described all beyond the mountains as regions of calamity, where discord was always... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1846 - 184 pages
...THE HAPPr VALLEY. HERE the sons and daughters of Abyssinia lived only to know the soft vicissitudes of pleasure and repose, attended by all that were...was practised to make them pleased with their own condidition. The sages, who instructed them, told them of nothing but the miseries of public life,... | |
 | Sir George Cornewall Lewis - 1852 - 500 pages
...necessarily, by the very coin ii BO massy, that they cannot be opened without the help of engines. ' The sages who instructed them, told them of nothing...described all beyond the mountains as regions of calamity, whero discord was always raging, and where man preyed upon man.' — C. 2. (140.) ' H est une circonstance... | |
 | Friedrich Heinrich K. freiherr de La Motte-Fouqué - 1855 - 520 pages
...the eons and daughters of Abyssinia lived only to know the soft vicissitudes of pleasure and repuse, attended by all that were skilful to delight, and...the mountains as regions of calamity, where discord always was raging, and where man preyed upon man. To heighten their opinion of their own felicity,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1857 - 452 pages
...THE HAPPY VALLEY. HERE tlie sons and daughters of Abyssinia lived only to know the soft vicissitudes of pleasure and repose, attended by all that were...with whatever the senses can enjoy. They wandered in the gardens of fragrance, and slept in the fortresses of security. Every art was practised to make... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - 1874 - 454 pages
...lived only to know the soft vicissitudes of pleasure and repose, attended by all that were skillful to delight, and gratified with whatever the senses...slept in the fortresses of security. Every art was practiced to make them pleased with their own condition. The sages who instructed them told them of... | |
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