Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia

nature, which had never yet been broken, and by the gate through which none that had once passed it were ever able to return. He was now impatient as an eagle in a grate. He p

e power of art, but was always watched by successive sentinels, and was, b

pon its mouth, he discovered it to be full of broken rocks, which, though they permitted the stream to flow through many narrow passages, w

ls and properties of plants, and found the place replete with wonders, of which he proposed to solace himself with the contemplation if he should never be able to accomplish his flight - rejoicing that his endeavours, though yet unsuccessful, had supplied him with a source of inexhaustible inquiry. But his original curiosity was not yet abated; he resolv