Lecture Chapters 1 – 4
Theodore Dalrymple gives a lecture on the first chapters of Rasselas.
“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 history of Rasselas, prince of Abissinia.” (p.1)
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Samuel Johnson’s Rasselas: An Introduction
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