The History of Rasselas: Prince of Abyssinia by Samuel Johnson

Author:Samuel Johnson [Johnson, Samuel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, Juvenile Fiction, General, Historical, Fairy Tales; Folklore & Mythology, Fairy Tales & Folklore, Fiction, Folklore & Mythology
ISBN: 9781840224207
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
Published: 2000-03-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER XXVIII - RASSELAS AND NEKAYAH CONTINUE THEIR CONVERSATION.

“Dear Princess,” said Rasselas, “you fall into the common errors of exaggeratory declamation, by producing in a familiar disquisition examples of national calamities and scenes of extensive misery which are found in books rather than in the world, and which, as they are horrid, are ordained to be rare. Let us not imagine evils which we do not feel, nor injure life by misrepresentations. I cannot bear that querulous eloquence which threatens every city with a siege like that of Jerusalem, that makes famine attend on every flight of locust, and suspends pestilence on the wing of every blast that issues from the south.

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