 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
 | George Rhett Cathcart - 1877 - 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... | |
 | Frank Van Buren Irish - 1884 - 132 pages
...phrase "to be representative," etc. In 17, "quite" is an adverb; equals "completely" or "entirely." 16. Every art was practised to make them pleased with their own condition. — Johnson. GRAMMAR AND ANALYSIS «II 60 1 K < r § i fe 0jp .:i _1 ,4ih iir fl jj ~ c IB s ^ ~«... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1887 - 216 pages
...HAPPY VALLEY. HERE the sons and daughters of Abyssinia lived only to 10 know the soft vicissitudes of pleasure and repose, attended by all that were...practised to make them pleased with their own condition. (T_he sages who instructed them, told them of nothing but the miseries of public life, and described... | |
 | John Franklin Genung - 1889 - 326 pages
...teachers of Rasselas and the princes of Abyssinia can be truly said of you in your happy valley : " The sages who instructed them told them of nothing but the miseries of «0 public life, and described all beyond the mountains as regions of calamity where discord was always... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1891 - 286 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 5 security. Every art was practised to make them pleased with their own condition. The sages who instructed... | |
 | 1891 - 120 pages
...DISCONTENT OF BASSELAS. HERE the sons and daughters of Abysinia lived only to know the soft visissitudes of pleasure and repose, attended by all that were...enjoy. They wandered in gardens of fragrance, and sleeped in the f ortreses of security. Every art was practiced to make them pleased with their own... | |
 | Oliver Farrar Emerson - 1894 - 458 pages
...gratified with whatever the sense can enjoy. They wandered in gardens of fragrance, and slept in One fortresses of security. Every art was practised to...mountains as regions of calamity, where discord was always ''flfing, and where man preyed upon man." — Rasselas, Chapter 2. COWPER. " Knowledge and wisdom,... | |
 | Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury - 1894 - 452 pages
...pleasure and repose, attended by all that were skiKob. to delight, and gratified with whatever the sense can enjoy. They wandered in gardens of fragrance,...instructed them, told them of nothing but the miseries oi public life, and described all beyond the mountains as regions of calamity, where discord was always... | |
 | Oliver Farrar Emerson - 1894 - 444 pages
...pleasure and repose, attended, by all that were i&'/ful to delight, and gratified with whatever the sense can enjoy. They wandered, in gardens of fragrance,...sages who instructed them, told them of nothing but Chemistries oi public life, and described all beyond the mountains as regions of calamity, where discord... | |
 | Oliver Farrar Emerson - 1894 - 446 pages
...gratified with whatever the sense can enjoy. They wandered in gardens of fragrance, and slept in de fortresses of security. Every art was practised to...sages who instructed them, told them of nothing but them/series of public life, and described all beyond the mountains as regions of calamity, where discord... | |
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