Rasselas - Couverture souple

Johnson, Samuel

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0710045085 ISBN 13 : 9780710045089

Editeur : Routledge & Kegan Paul PLC, 1967

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Présentation de l'éditeur

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 deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow ;attend to the nistory of Rasselas prince of A bissinia. 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. According to the custom which has descended from age to age among the monarchs of the torrid zone, Rasselas was confined in a private palace, with the other sons and daughters of A bissinian royalty, till the order of succession should call him to the throne. The place, which the wisdom or policy of antiquity had destined for the residence of the A bissinian princes, was a spacious valley in the kingdom of A mhara, surrounded on every side by mountains, of which the summits overhang the middle part. The only passage by which it could be entered was a cavern that passed under a rock, of which it had long been disputed whether it was the work of nature or of human industry. The outlet of the cavern was concealed by a thick wood, and the mouth which opened into the valley was closed with gates of iron, forged by the artificers of ancient days, so massy, that no man, without the help of engines, could open or shut them.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge & Kegan Paul PLC
• Date d'édition: 1967
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0710045085
• ISBN 13: 9780710045089
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 254
• Éditeur: Peake C., Peake Charles H.
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