Rasselas, a prince of Abyssinia, grows dissatisfied with the Happy Valley in which royal children live surrounded by carefully arranged pleasures. The valley supplies entertainment and material comfort, but it offers no useful task and no freedom to choose a life.
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Samuel Johnson
· Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) was an English critic, essayist, poet, and lexicographer. His Dictionary of the English Language appeared in 1755. A committed Anglican, he examined human vanity and suffering without pretending that easy formulas could remove them.
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