Pub Date : 2009-06-11DOI: 10.1093/owc/9780199229970.003.0003
Samuel Johnson
On the next day his old instructor, imagining that he had now made himself acquainted with his disease of mind,* was in hope of curing it by counsel, and officiously sought an opportunity of conference, which the prince, having long considered him as one whose intellects were exhausted, was not very willing to afford: ‘Why, said he, does this man thus intrude upon me; shall I be never suffered to forget those lectures which pleased only while they were new, and to become new again must be forgotten?’ He then walked into the wood, and composed himself to his usual meditations; when, before his thoughts had taken any settled form, he perceived his persuer at his side, and was at first prompted by his impatience to go hastily away; but, being unwilling to offend a man whom he had once reverenced and still loved, he invited him to sit down with him on the bank.
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Pub Date : 2009-06-11DOI: 10.1093/owc/9780199229970.003.0042
Samuel Johnson
‘I suppose he discovered in me, through the obscurity of the room, some tokens of amazement and doubt, for, after a short pause, he proceeded thus:
我猜想，在房间的昏暗中，他在我身上发现了一些惊奇和怀疑的迹象，因为停了一会儿之后，他接着说:
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Pub Date : 2009-06-11DOI: 10.1093/owc/9780199229970.003.0045
Samuel Johnson
The evening was now far past, and they rose to return home. As they walked along the bank of the Nile, delighted with the beams of the moon quivering on the water, they saw at a small distance an old man, whom the prince had often heard in the assembly of the sages. ‘Yonder, said he, is one whose years have calmed his passions, but not clouded his reason: let us close the disquisitions of the night, by enquiring what are his sentiments of his own state, that we may know whether youth alone is to struggle with vexation, and whether any better hope remains for the latter part of life.’
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Pub Date : 2009-06-11DOI: 10.1093/owc/9780199229970.003.0029
Samuel Johnson
‘The good of the whole, says Rasselas, is the same with the good of all its parts. If marriage be best for mankind it must be evidently best for individuals, or a permanent and necessary duty must be the cause of evil, and some must be inevitably sacrificed to the convenience of others. In the estimate which you have made of the two states, it appears that the incommodities of a single life are, in a great measure, necessary and certain, but those of the conjugal state accidental and avoidable.
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Pub Date : 2009-06-11DOI: 10.1093/owc/9780199229970.003.0020
Samuel Johnson
On the next day they continued their journey, till the heat compelled them to look round for shelter. At a small distance they saw a thick wood, which they no sooner entered than they perceived that they were approaching the habitations of men. The shrubs were diligently cut away to open walks where the shades were darkest; the boughs of opposite trees were artificially interwoven; seats of flowery turf were raised in vacant spaces, and a rivulet, that wantoned along the side of a winding path, had its banks sometimes opened into small basons, and its stream sometimes obstructed by little mounds of stone heaped together to increase its murmurs.
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Pub Date : 2009-06-11DOI: 10.1093/owc/9780199229970.003.0024
Samuel Johnson
Rasselas applauded the design, and appeared next day with a splendid retinue at the court of the Bassa. He was soon distinguished for his magnificence, and admitted, as a prince whose curiosity had brought him from distant countries, to an intimacy with the great officers, and frequent conversation with the Bassa himself.
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Pub Date : 2009-06-11DOI: 10.1093/owc/9780199229970.003.0028
Samuel Johnson
‘Dear princess, said Rasselas, you fall into the common errours of exaggeratory declamation, by producing, in a familiar disquisition, examples of national calamities, and scenes of extensive misery, which are found in books rather than in the world, and which, as they are horrid, are ordained to be rare. Let us not imagine evils which we do not feel, nor injure life by misrepresentations. I cannot bear that querulous eloquence which threatens every city with a siege like that of Jerusalem,* that makes famine attend on every flight of locusts, and suspends pestilence on the wing of every blast that issues from the south.
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Pub Date : 2009-06-11DOI: 10.1093/owc/9780199229970.003.0049
Samuel Johnson
It was now the time of the inundation of the Nile: a few days after their visit to the catacombs, the river began to rise.
现在正是尼罗河泛滥的时候:在他们参观了地下墓穴几天之后，河水开始上涨。
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Pub Date : 2009-06-11DOI: 10.1093/owc/9780199229970.003.0005
Samuel Johnson
He now found that it would be very difficult to effect that which it was very easy to suppose effected. When he looked round about him, he saw himself confined by the bars of nature which had never yet been broken, and by the gate, through which none that once had passed it were ever able to return. He was now impatient as an eagle in a grate.* He passed week after week in clambering the mountains, to see if there was any aperture which the bushes might conceal, but found all the summits inaccessible by their prominence. The iron gate he despaired to open; for it was not only secured with all the power of art, but was always watched by successive sentinels, and was by its position exposed to the perpetual observation of all the inhabitants.
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Pub Date : 2009-06-11DOI: 10.1093/owc/9780199229970.003.0033
Samuel Johnson
They rose up, and returned through the cavity at which they had entered, and the princess prepared for her favourite a long narrative of dark labyrinths, and costly rooms, and of the different impressions which the varieties of the way had made upon her. But, when they came to their train, they found every one silent and dejected: the men discovered shame and fear in their countenances, and the women were weeping in the tents.
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