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 | 2022-08-21T15:54:08Z |
| dc.date.available | 2022-08-21T15:54:08Z |
| dc.date.created | 1759 |
| dc.identifier | ota:0077 |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14106/0077 |
| 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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<wk> <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> <doc>JohRass</doc> <loc><locdoc>JohRass1</locdoc><div0 n=1> <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 . . .
