The History of Rasselas, Prince of AbissiniaOxford University Press, 1887 - 145 Novel about a prince who leaves the "happy valley" to pursue the choice of life. |
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Abyssinia Anatomy of Melancholy answered Imlac Arab astronomer Bassa began Boswell Boswell's Cairo CHAPTER choice companions considered conversation curiosity Cymbeline danger death delight desire Dictionary dreadful Egypt endeavoured enjoy entered evil eyes fancy father favour favourite fear felicity folly friends happy valley heard honour hope hour Human Wishes imagination inquire Janissaries Janizaries Johnson defines knowledge labour lady learning less live looked lost mankind marriage melan mind misery mountains nature Nekayah never Nile observed once opinion passed passion Pekuah Pembroke College Persia pleased pleasure poet Post princess Pyramid Rambler Rasselas reason resolved returned sage Samuel Johnson says scrupulosity silent solitude sometimes soon sorrow soul sound of music Streatham suffer suppose talk Thomas Carlyle thou thought travelled Vanity of Human virtue weary wisdom wonder wrote youth ΙΟ
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