Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia

ope for a happier event only because he had no other means of escape in view. He

ndeavours to support himself, discontent by degrees preyed upon him, and he began again to lose his thoughts in s

cavern was too narrow to discharge the water. The lake overflowed its banks, and all the level of the valley was covered with the inundation. The eminence on which the palace was built,

second time; then entering into familiar talk, he thought himself happy in having found a man who knew the world so well, and could so skilfully paint the scenes of life. He asked a thousand questions about things to which, though common to all other mortals, his confinem

was forced, or by what motive induced, to close his life in the Happy Valley. As he was going to begin his narr