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<au>Johnson, Samuel</au>
<ti>The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia</ti>
<pub>New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1960</pub>
<ct>Rasselas, Poems, and Selected Prose</ct>
<editor>Bertrand H. Bronson</editor><role>ed.</role>
<dt>1759</dt>
<doc>JohRass</doc>
<loc><locdoc>JohRass1</locdoc><div0 n=1>
<p> Description of a palace in a valley
Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and
pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect
that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the de-
ficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow ;
attend to the history of Rasselas prince of Abissinia.
<p>Rasselas was the fourth son of the mighty emperour, in
whose dominions the Father of waters begins his course;
whose bounty pours down the streams of plenty, and scatters
over half the world the harvests of Egypt.
<p>According to the custom which has descended from age
to age among the monarchs of the torrid zone, Rassel . . .
