 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
 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - 1890 - 450 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... | |
 | Edward Oscar Dyer - 1903 - 352 pages
...the ground. . . . Here the sons and daughters of Abyssinia lived only to know the soft vicissitudes of pleasure and repose, attended by all that were...and gratified with whatever the senses can enjoy. ... To heighten their opinion of their own felicity, they were daily entertained with songs, the subject... | |
 | Hendrik Poutsma - 1914 - 724 pages
...would never allow Charlie Mcars to speak with full knowledge of his pasts. RUDYARD KIPLING. J) sage. The sages who instructed them told them of nothing but the miseries of public life. JOHNSON, Ras. , Ch. II, 10. savage. The savages of the Island put our whole party to death. Mrs. INCHBALD,... | |
 | Alonzo Reed, Brainerd Kellogg - 1897 - 318 pages
...as a noun after in. Which is the object of found. To be representative modifies which. 173 — 16. Every art was practised to make them pleased with their own condition. To make modifies art. 173 — 17. The man that blushes is not quite a brute. Quite modifies is. 173... | |
 | Edwin Du Bois Shurter - 1906 - 392 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...the mountains as regions of calamity where discord 5 was always raging, and where man preyed upon man." The sages who have instructed you are American... | |
 | Hendrik Poutsma - 1914 - 730 pages
...would never allow Charlie Mears to speak with full knowledge of his pasts. RUDYARD KIPLING. ') sage. The sages who instructed them told them of nothing but the miseries of public life. JOHNSON, Ras. , Ch. II, 10. savage. The savages of the island put our whole party to death. Mrs. INCHBALD,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1927 - 264 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...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 - 1927 - 260 pages
...the happy valley. ERE the sons and daughters of Abis.sinia lived only to know the soft vicissitudes of pleasure and repose, attended by all that were...condition. The sages who instructed them, told them of li \ nothing but the miseries of publick life, and described all beyond the mountains as regions I... | |
 | 1907 - 506 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... | |
 | Sarah Jordan - 2003 - 308 pages
...inhabitants are entertained. Although the residents of the valley "lived only to know the soft vicissitudes of pleasure and repose, attended by all that were...and gratified with whatever the senses can enjoy," 16 Rasselas finds himself "pained with want," 17 although he does not know what it is he wants. His... | |
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