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Mary Jones

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RASSELAS;

A TALE.

BY

SAMUEL JOHNSON, L. L. D.

WITH

THE LIFE OF

THE

AUTHOR.

EDINBURGH:

Printed by George Ramsay and Company,

FOR J. THOMSON, JUN. AND COMPANY, EDINBURGH ;

AND JOHN MURRAY, LONDON.

.1809.

RASSELAS.

CHAP I.

Description of a Palace in a Valley,

CHAP. II.

The Discontent of Rasselas in the Happy Valley,. 7

CHAP. III. '

The wants of him that wants nothing,

CHAP. IV.

The Prince continues to grieve and muse,

CHAP. V. N

The Prince meditates his Escape,

CHAP. VI.

A Dissertation on the Art of Flying,

CHAP. VII.

The Prince finds a Man of Learning,

CHAP. VIII.

The History of Imlac,

The History of Imlac continued,

CHAP. X.

Imlac's History continued. A Dissertation upon

Poetry,

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CHAP. IX.

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