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		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.
		Rasselas, who knew not that any one was near him, having for some time fixed his eyes upon the goats that were brousing among the rocks, began to compare their condition with his own.
		Rasselas endeavoured first to comfort and afterwards to divert her; he hired musicians, to whom she seemed to listen, but did not hear them, and procured masters to instruct her in various arts, whose lectures, when they visited her again, were again to be repeated.
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		In Rasselas, the prince listens to a sage who "compared reason to the sun, of which the light is constant, uniform, and lasting; and fancy to a meteor, of bright but transitory lustre, irregular in its motion, and delusive in its direction" (46).
		Prince Rasselas recalls the events during the opening of the gate leading into Abissinia: "…the dancers shewed their activity before the princes, in hope that they should pass their lives in this blissful captivity, to which these only were admitted whose performance was thought able to add novelty to luxury" (3).
		Through the words of Rasselas, Johnson's focus on misery and happiness is clear: "Now, said the prince, you have given me something to desire; I shall long to see the miseries of the world, since the sight of them is necessary to happiness" (8).
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	The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia, often abbreviated to Rasselas, is a novella by Samuel Johnson.
		He wrote the piece in January 1759 to help support his seriously ill mother, although the money he made was ultimately spent on her funeral (she had died whilst Johnson was writing).
		The plot concerns Rasselas, son of the King of Abissinia [sic] (modern day Ethiopia), who leaves his home in company with his sister, Nekayah, and a philosopher, Imlac, to seek adventure.
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	Prince of Abissinia and the Culture of the East 1
		Rasselas is a tableaux of Johnson’s admiration of the exotic East; luxuries, enchantment, escape, picturesque, Gothic, jinn, effrits [sic], sorcery; dates and coffee trade, and land of deep history and strategic geographic location that controls old great trade routes.
		Rasselas is composed of a series of stories told to describe the adventures of Rasselas.
		References to Rasselas are extracted from Samuel Johnson’s The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia.
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	The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia Summary
		The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia Summary
		In the following essay, Parke proposes that in Rasselas, Johnson elaborated on the thesis that history—as a reflection on the past and an awareness of the continuity of time—is both the antidote to life's natural boredom and a precondition for understanding the future.
		Kolb argues that Johnson's story is structurally distinct from the generic eighteenth-century oriental tale, and suggests that the common practice of viewing Rasselas as an oriental tale is misleading and results in an incomplete understanding of the work.
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	Samuel Johnson, Rasselas
		This hint rekindled the prince's desire of passing the mountains; having seen what the mechanist had already performed, he was willing to fancy that he could do more; yet resolved to enquire further before he suffered hope to afflict him by disappointment.
		The prince and princess had jewels sufficient to make them rich whenever they came into a place of commerce, which, by Imlac's direction, they hid in their cloaths, and, on the night of the next full moon, all left the valley.
		The prince, whose humanity would not suffer him to insult misery with reproof, went away convinced of the emptiness of rhetorical sound, and the inefficacy of polished periods and studied sentences.
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		My observation regarding Rasselas and his band of travelers is that those they encountered would have thought that Rasselas led a happy life because he and his group were able to travel freely where they liked, learning new things and meeting new people.
		Rasselas provides an opportunity for a person of learning to contrast his life with those who seek to find something without that is truly within.
		Rasselas was closer than he knew, but he knew not where to look.
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	The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia - Samuel Johnson - Penguin Classics
		Telling how Rasselas and his companions escape from the bland pleasures of their perfectly happy valley in Abissinia to Egypt, to study how people live, the book is a parable and a pilgrimage in which all manner of subjects are discussed—flying machines, poetry, marriage, madness.
		Rasselas embodies Dr Johnson's most powerful and heart-warming qualities: his tragic sense of life, his justice, his wisdom which is never boring or solemn, and his miraculous ability to balance humour with sympathy in weighing up some of life's more mysterious problems—what is happiness, and how can we find it?
		Rasselas compresses into a hundred or so pages everything that puts Dr Johnson among the great lions of English literature and life.
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		"Rasselas" of the title is a prince who has led a sheltered life in the Happy Valley.
		Rasselas was a prince of Abyssinia, doomed to spend his life in "Happy Valley," unless he is chosen to be the King.
		The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia was a disheartening story about a prince who leaves the "happy valley" to pursue the choice of life.
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	Samuel Johnson, Rasselas (Selection)
		"Surely, said the prince, my father must be negligent of his charge, if any man in his dominions dares take that which belongs to another.
		"They are surely happy, said the prince, who have all these conveniencies, of which I envy none so much as the facility with which separated friends interchange their thoughts.
		"I AM not yet willing, said the prince, to suppose that happiness is so parsimoniously distributed to mortals; nor can believe but that, if I had the choice of life, I should be able to fill every day with pleasure.
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		The distinguished English writer's only novel provides a compelling glimpse of his moral views as he assails 18th-century optimism and man's unrealistic estimates of what life has to offer.
		Rasselas ponders such subjects as romantic love, flights of imagination, the great discoveries of science, and speculations about the meaning of happiness.
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		Bored by the contentment of "the happy valley" in which he has been brought up, Prince Rasselas escapes with his sister.
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		Telling how Rasselas and his companions escape from the bland pleasures of their perfectly happy valley in Abissinia to Egypt, to study how people live, the book is a parable and a pilgrimage in which all manner of subjects are discussed - flying machines, poetry, marriage, madness.
		Rasselas embodies Dr Johnson's most powerful and heart-warming qualities: his tragic sense of life, his justice, his wisdom which is never boring or solemn, and his miraculous ability to balance humour with sympathy in weighing up some of life's more mysterious problems - what is happiness, and how can we find it?
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		RASSELAS is a provocative fable about "the choice of life." Bored by the endless contentment of "the happy valley" in which he has been brought up, Pr...
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		Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia, leaves the easy life of the Happy Valley, accompanied by his sister Nekayah, her attendant Pekuah, and the much-travelled philosopher Imlac.
		There journey takes them to Egypt, where they study the various conditions of men's lives, before returning home in a `conclusion in which nothing is concluded'.
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	Samuel Johnson, Rasselas
		Chapter 17: The prince associates with young men of spirit and gaiety
		Chapter 23: The prince and his sister divide between them the work of observation
		"My curiosity, said Rasselas, does not very strongly lead me to survey piles of stone, or mounds of earth; my business is with man. I came hither not to measure fragments of temples, or trace choaked aqueducts, but to look upon the various scenes of the present world."
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