 That I want nothing," said the prince, " or that I know not what I want, is the cause of my complaint ; if I had any known want, I should have a certain wish: that wish would excite endeavour, and...  Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia: A Tale - Page 21by Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 184 pagesFull view - About this book
 | J. Prinsen - 1925 - 558 pages
...melancholische overpeinzingen van zijne een= zaamheid voelt hij een leegte : ,,'1'hat I want nothing or that I know not what I want, is the cause of my complaint." En als de wijze die hem opvoedt, hem dan weer spreekt over het ongeluk van anderen tegenover zijn geluk,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1927 - 256 pages
...supply : if you want nothing, how are you unhappy ? " ' That J want nothing, said the prince, or tkat I know not what I want, is the cause of my complaint...want, I should have a certain wish ; that wish would exci L endeavour, and I should not then repine t the sun move so slowly towards the western mountain,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1927 - 258 pages
...which of '. your wants is without supply : if you want V'V" $ nothing, how are you unhappy? " vV"' ' " That I want nothing, said the prince, or that I know not what I want, is the cause of my ^ ,. • Qomplaint ; if I had any known want, I should have a certain wish ; that wish would excite... | |
 | 1907 - 506 pages
...without supply; if you want nothing how are you unhappy?" "That I want nothing," said the prince, "nor that I know not what I want, is the cause of my complaint....should have a certain wish; that wish would excite endeavor, and I should not then repine to see the sun move so slowly towards the western mountain,... | |
 | James Boyd White - 1985 - 400 pages
...psychological infancy, without life and experience and hence without a language of self or motive: "If I had any known want, I should have a certain wish." To the world of experience he carries with him, also like an infant, impossible expectations, which... | |
 | Ihab Hassan - 1990 - 256 pages
...of the Western imagination-expresses a mood very different from Emerson's Whim in his Happy Valley: "'That I want nothing,' said the Prince, 'or that...know not what I want, is the cause of my complaint.'" Samuel Johnson, Rasselas (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1954), p. 44. Chapter 5. Faces of Quest: Fact 1... | |
 | Mortimer Raymond Kadish - 1994 - 266 pages
...if all his wants are satisfied, can Rasselas be unhappy? Yet he is. "That I want nothing," answers the prince, "or that I know not what I want, is the cause of my complaint...! have already enjoyed too much; give me something to desire." 7 Give him something, that is, that will... | |
 | Patricia Meyer Spacks - 1995 - 310 pages
...is the desire for desire. As Rasselas tells an old man at the end of chapter 3: That I want nothing, or that I know not what I want, is the cause of my...certain wish; that wish would excite endeavour, and 1 should not then repine to see the sun move so slowly towards the western mountain, or lament when... | |
 | Patricia Meyer Spacks - 1995 - 316 pages
...desire for desire. As Rasselas tells an old man at the end of chapter 3: That I want nothing, or that 1 know not what I want, is the cause of my complaint, if 1 had any known want, 1 should have a certain wish, that wish would excite endeavour, and I should... | |
 | Adam Potkay - 2000 - 276 pages
...and silent meditation" (12). Rasselas complains to his elderly instructor: "That I want nothing ... or that I know not what I want, is the cause of my complaint . . . When I see the lambs chasing one another, I fancy that I should be happy if I had something to... | |
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