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The History Of Rasselas, Prince Of Abyssinia, A Tale - Elizabeth Or The Exiles Of Siberia, A Tale (1876) (Paperback)
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The History Of Rasselas, Prince Of Abyssinia, A Tale - Elizabeth Or The Exiles Of Siberia, A Tale (1876) (Paperback)
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for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: is
perhaps some suggestion of it in the garden of hope, Rambler, 67
(November 6, 1750). But there can be little question that, in the
'History of Ten Days of Seged, KnrnrTff-KlRfafia'JfLfJrnrfn nf
plpasnrp is a prototypp nf the, happy valley i1-gplf The name Seged
(Segued) occurs in Lobo ; the place of the gar- den is Lake Dambea,
in Ethiopia, and the garden is a garden of delights for the
pleasure of the emperor. Moreover, the descriptions agree in
numerous minute particulars, so that here seems to be a first
sketch of what was elaborated in the later tale. III. CHARACTER AND
INTERPRETATION OF THE WORK. It is clear at a p-lannp that Johnson's
Rasselas is no ordinary work of fiction. There is. fc the
exceptionofth.fi journey of Imlac and the episode of Pekutl's bythe
Arabs, the narrative nf t.hp. journey nf from the happy valley and
the account of the different persons he meets are unbroken by
external evpnt.s nr fnteresls. Moreover, the love passion, so
eminently characteristic of romantic fiction, has no glace in the
stofybTthe prince of Abyssinia. - Finally, dramatic-/ power,
essential to the novplist, is a,|m/,c n,hr.lly ir,- ing in
A'issclas. Johnson himself speaks in the person of each of the
characters at different times. From these and other evidences that
might be mentioned, it is clear that Johnson's purpose in writing
Rasselas was not simply to interest and amuse. Rasselas has been
called a work of philosophical . 1 Rambler, 204, 205 (February 29,
March 3, 1752). fiction. But even this rather elaborate
characterization is itsplf in need ot morp pxplicit definition.
Fiction is not the ordinary vehicle of philosophy, and Rasselas may
be called philosophical only in a somewhat general sense. A more
explicit characterization of the story may per...
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