"To indulge the power of fiction, and send imagination out upon the wing, is often the sport of those who delight too much in silent speculation."
[Rasselas] The Prince of Abissinia. A Tale in Two Volumes
At least 37 entries in the ESTC (1759, 1760, 1766, 1768, 1775, 1777, 1783, 1785, 1786, 1787, 1789, 1790, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794, 1795, 1796, 1798, 1799, 1800).<br>
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See <u>The Prince of Abissinia. A Tale. In Two Volumes.</u> (London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley; and W. Johnston, 1759). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T139510">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;
&lt;<a href="http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/rasselas.html">Link to Jack Lynch's online edition</a>&gt;<br>
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Reading <u>The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia</u>, ed. Thomas Keymer (Oxford: OUP, 2009). 