Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia
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Samuel Johnson. Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I. DESCRIPTION OF A PALACE IN A VALLEY
CHAPTER II. THE DISCONTENT OF RASSELAS IN THE HAPPY VALLEY
CHAPTER III. THE WANTS OF HIM THAT WANTS NOTHING
CHAPTER IV. THE PRINCE CONTINUES TO GRIEVE AND MUSE
CHAPTER V. THE PRINCE MEDITATES HIS ESCAPE
CHAPTER VI. A DISSERTATION ON THE ART OF FLYING
CHAPTER VII. THE PRINCE FINDS A MAN OF LEARNING
CHAPTER VIII. THE HISTORY OF IMLAC
CHAPTER IX. THE HISTORY OF IMLAC (continued)
CHAPTER X. IMLAC’S HISTORY (continued)—A DISSERTATION UPON POETRY
CHAPTER XI. IMLAC’S NARRATIVE (continued)—A HINT OF PILGRIMAGE
CHAPTER XII. THE STORY OF IMLAC (continued)
CHAPTER XIII. RASSELAS DISCOVERS THE MEANS OF ESCAPE
CHAPTER XIV. RASSELAS AND IMLAC RECEIVE AN UNEXPECTED VISIT
CHAPTER XV. THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS LEAVE THE VALLEY, AND SEE MANY WONDERS
CHAPTER XVI. THEY ENTER CAIRO, AND FIND EVERY MAN HAPPY
CHAPTER XVII. THE PRINCE ASSOCIATES WITH YOUNG MEN OF SPIRIT AND GAIETY
CHAPTER XVIII. THE PRINCE FINDS A WISE AND HAPPY MAN
CHAPTER XIX. A GLIMPSE OF PASTORAL LIFE
CHAPTER XX. THE DANGER OF PROSPERITY
CHAPTER XXI. THE HAPPINESS OF SOLITUDE—THE HERMIT’S HISTORY
CHAPTER XXII. THE HAPPINESS OF A LIFE LED ACCORDING TO NATURE
CHAPTER XXIII. THE PRINCE AND HIS SISTER DIVIDE BETWEEN THEM THE WORK OF OBSERVATION
CHAPTER XXIV. THE PRINCE EXAMINES THE HAPPINESS OF HIGH STATIONS
CHAPTER XXV. THE PRINCESS PURSUES HER INQUIRY WITH MORE DILIGENCE THAN SUCCESS
CHAPTER XXVI. THE PRINCESS CONTINUES HER REMARKS UPON PRIVATE LIFE
CHAPTER XXVII. DISQUISITION UPON GREATNESS
CHAPTER XXVIII. RASSELAS AND NEKAYAH CONTINUE THEIR CONVERSATION
CHAPTER XXIX. THE DEBATE ON MARRIAGE (continued)
CHAPTER XXX. IMLAC ENTERS, AND CHANGES THE CONVERSATION
CHAPTER XXXI. THEY VISIT THE PYRAMIDS
CHAPTER XXXII. THEY ENTER THE PYRAMID
CHAPTER XXXIII. THE PRINCESS MEETS WITH AN UNEXPECTED MISFORTUNE
CHAPTER XXXIV. THEY RETURN TO CAIRO WITHOUT PEKUAH
CHAPTER XXXV. THE PRINCESS LANGUISHES FOR WANT OF PEKUAH
CHAPTER XXXVI. PEKUAH IS STILL REMEMBERED. THE PROGRESS OF SORROW
CHAPTER XXXVII. THE PRINCESS HEARS NEWS OF PEKUAH
CHAPTER XXXVIII. THE ADVENTURES OF THE LADY PEKUAH
CHAPTER XXXIX. THE ADVENTURES OF PEKUAH (continued)
CHAPTER XL. THE HISTORY OF A MAN OF LEARNING
CHAPTER XLI. THE ASTRONOMER DISCOVERS THE CAUSE OF HIS UNEASINESS
CHAPTER XLII. THE OPINION OF THE ASTRONOMER IS EXPLAINED AND JUSTIFIED
CHAPTER XLIII. THE ASTRONOMER LEAVES IMLAC HIS DIRECTIONS
CHAPTER XLIV. THE DANGEROUS PREVALENCE OF IMAGINATION
CHAPTER XLV. THEY DISCOURSE WITH AN OLD MAN
CHAPTER XLVI. THE PRINCESS AND PEKUAH VISIT THE ASTRONOMER
CHAPTER XLVII. THE PRINCE ENTERS, AND BRINGS A NEW TOPIC
CHAPTER XLVIII. IMLAC DISCOURSES ON THE NATURE OF THE SOUL
CHAPTER XLIX. THE CONCLUSION, IN WHICH NOTHING IS CONCLUDED
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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 deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow, attend to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia.
Rasselas was the fourth son of the mighty Emperor in whose dominions the father of waters begins his course—whose bounty pours down the streams of plenty, and scatters over the world the harvests of Egypt.
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The palace stood on an eminence, raised about thirty paces above the surface of the lake. It was divided into many squares or courts, built with greater or less magnificence according to the rank of those for whom they were designed. The roofs were turned into arches of massive stone, joined by a cement that grew harder by time, and the building stood from century to century, deriding the solstitial rains and equinoctial hurricanes, without need of reparation.
This house, which was so large as to be fully known to none but some ancient officers, who successively inherited the secrets of the place, was built as if Suspicion herself had dictated the plan. To every room there was an open and secret passage; every square had a communication with the rest, either from the upper storeys by private galleries, or by subterraneous passages from the lower apartments. Many of the columns had unsuspected cavities, in which a long race of monarchs had deposited their treasures. They then closed up the opening with marble, which was never to be removed but in the utmost exigences of the kingdom, and recorded their accumulations in a book, which was itself concealed in a tower, not entered but by the Emperor, attended by the prince who stood next in succession.
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