THE HISTORY OF RASSELAS, PRINCE OF ABYSSINIA. BY SAMUEL JOHNSON. WITH A COMPLETE VOCABULARY COMPILED BY Dr. E. AMTHOR. REVISED EDITION. អ LEIPZIG, PUBLISHED BY RENGER. 1846. NOTICES OF RASSELAS, EXTRACTED FROM BOSWELLS LIFE OF JOHNSON. เ "This Tale, with all the charms of oriental imagery, and all the force and beauty of which the English language is capable, leads us through the most important scenes of human life, and shows us that this stage of our being is full of vanity and vexation of spirit. To those who look no further than the present life, or who maintain that human nature has not fallen from the state in which it was created, the instruction of this sublime story will be of no avail. But they who think justly and feel with strong sensibility will listen with eagerness and admiration to as truth and wisdom." "It may be considered as a more enlarged and more deeply philosophical discourse in prose, upon the interesting truth, which, in his 'Vanity of Human Wishes,' he had so successfully enforced in verse. "The fund of thinking which this work contains is such that almost every sentence of it may furnish a subject of long meditation. I am not satisfied if a year passes without my having read it through; and at every perusal, my admiration of the mind which produced it is so highly raised that I can scarcely believe that I had the honour of enjoying the intimacy of such a man. |