Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia / Samuel Johnson
| dc.contributor | Fleeman, David Pembroke College Oxford University Oxford |
| dc.contributor.author | Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784 |
| dc.coverage.placeName | New York |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-27 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-07-04T10:58:50Z |
| dc.date.available | 2019-07-04T10:58:50Z |
| dc.date.created | 1759 |
| dc.identifier | ota:0077 |
| dc.identifier.citation | http://purl.ox.ac.uk/ota/0077 |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12024/0077 |
| dc.description.abstract | First edition 1759 |
| dc.format.extent | Text data (1 file : ca. 216 KB) |
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| dc.language | English |
| dc.language.iso | eng |
| dc.publisher | University of Oxford |
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| dc.rights | Distributed by the University of Oxford under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ |
| dc.rights.label | PUB |
| dc.subject.lcsh | English fiction -- 18th century |
| dc.subject.other | Novels |
| dc.title | Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia / Samuel Johnson |
| dc.title.alternative | The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia |
| dc.type | Text |
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| identifier.ee | Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784 http://dx.doi.org/10.13051/ee:bio/johnssamue002091 |
| identifier.ee | Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784 http://dx.doi.org/10.13051/ee:bio/johnssamue002091 |
| identifier.lccn | Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78095825 |
| identifier.lccn | Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78095825 |
| otaterms.date.range | 1700-1799 |
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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>
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<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 . . .
