Imlac

With his friend, Imlac, his sister Nekayah, and her companion Pekuah, they tunnel out of the happy valley in search of adventure and take up residence in Cairo.

morning's amusement nwhyte 2009

Also on Mr. Allen's wish list: 32-bit machines built by Interdata; and an Imlac PDS-1, a programmable display system, considered to be one of the predecessors of the modern-day computer workstation.

What's 6 Feet Tall and Weighs 1,500 Pounds? A Minicomputer Dionne Searcey 2011

Throughout these encounters, and acting as a kind of counterpoint, Imlac offers advice in a voice similar to that of Johnson, in which he tries to lower Rasselas's expectation that he will find happiness somewhere.

On the Quest for Happiness Charles E. Pierce Jr. 2009

Speaking, for example, of the Stoic philosopher in the tale, Imlac observes that "teachers of morality may teach like angels but live like men."

On the Quest for Happiness Charles E. Pierce Jr. 2009

He flees from the valley with his sister, her maid and an older wise man, Imlac, and sets off to find happiness.

On the Quest for Happiness Charles E. Pierce Jr. 2009

Imlac who had hastened from the country to console a distressed mother, who he understood was very anxious for his return.

The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. 2004

Rasselas illustrates the habitual discontent of man by wearying of the monotonous happiness of his royal home, and, together with his sister Nekayah, who shares his ennui, and Imlac, a man of learning, he escapes from the abode of changeless joys and perpetual merriment.

A History of English Prose Fiction Bayard Tuckerman

The words in which Imlac describes to the Prince and Princess the dangers of an unrestrained imagination, might, with equal propriety, find a place in a scientific treatise on the causes of insanity, and in a collection of beautiful literary extracts:

A History of English Prose Fiction Bayard Tuckerman

Euphelia and Rhodoclea talk as finely as Imlac the poet or Seged, Emperor of Ethiopia.

The Bed-Book of Happiness Harold Begbie 1900

She read one of the conversations between Rasselas and Imlac, in a high-pitched, majestic voice; and when she had ended, she said, "I imagine I am now justified in my preference of Dr. Johnson as a writer of fiction."

The Bed-Book of Happiness Harold Begbie 1900