The history of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia. The vision of Theodore. The apotheosis of Milton. Prayers and devotional exercises. Apophthegms, sentiments, opinions and occasional reflections. Irene. Poems. Miscellaneous poems. Poemata

J. Buckland, 1787

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The wants of him that wants nothing	8

The danger of profperity	58

The happinefs of folitude The hermits hiſtory	60

The happineſs of a life led according to nature	63

The Prince and his Sifter divide between them the work of obfervation	66

The Princefs perfues her enquiry with more diligence than fuceefs	68

The dangerous prevalence of imagination	121

They difcourfe with an old man	124

The Princefs and Pekuah vifit the aſtronomer	128

The Prince enters and brings a new topick	134

Imlac difcourfes on the nature of the foul	138

The conclufion in which nothing is concluded	143

The VISION of THEODORE the Hermit of Teneriffe found in his cell	145

The APOTHEOSIS of MILTON a vifion	163

The Princefs continues her remarks on private life	71

Difquifition upon greatneſs	74

Raffelas and Nekayah continue their converfation	77

XXVIII The debate of marriage continued	80

Imlac enters and changes the converfation	84

They viſit the pyramids	87

They enter the pyramid	90

The princefs meets with an unexpected mis fortune	91

They return to Cairo without Pekuah	93

The Princeſs languiſhes for want of Pekuah	95

Pekuah is ſtill remembered The progrefs of forrow	100

The adventures of the lady Pekuah	103

The adventures of Pekuah continued	108

The hiftory of a man of learning	114

The aftronomer difcovers the caufe of his un eafinefs	116

The opinion of the aftronomer is explained and justified	118

The aftronomer leaves Imlac his directions	120

PRAYERS	189

APOPHTHEGMS SENTIMENTS OPINIONS	195

a Poem In imitation of the Third Satire	319

THE VANITY OF HUMAN WISHES In imitation	331

Prologue fpoken by Mr Garrick at the opening of	344

Spring an Ode	350

To Mifs on her giving the Author a gold and filk	356

To Stella	362

To Lyce an elderly lady	364

To Mifs Hickman playing on the ſpinnet	371

Burlefque of the modern verfifications of ancient Legen	377

POEMATA	383

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The ftory of Imlac continued	xii

The Prince finds a wife and happy	xviii

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Title	The history of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia. The vision of Theodore. The apotheosis of Milton. Prayers and devotional exercises. Apophthegms, sentiments, opinions and occasional reflections. Irene. Poems. Miscellaneous poems. Poemata Volume 11 of The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Together with His Life, and Notes on His Lives of the Poets, by Sir John Hawkins : in Eleven Volumes, James Buckland
Author	Samuel Johnson
Contributor	James Buckland
Publisher	J. Buckland, 1787
Original from	The Ohio State University
Digitized	25 Sep 2014

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