Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia

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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