...John Robert Moore © 1954 University of Washington 1954 RASSELAS AND THE EARLY TRAVELERS TO ABYSSINIA By JOHN ROBERTMOORE When Lord Beaconsfield exulted that by an expedition to Abyssinia...

... in Lichfield and the Midlands, giving detailed accounts of his family and surround- ings, his schooling, his friendships with Cornelius Ford and Gilbert Walmesley, his year at Pembroke, his sojourn in Birmingham, where he translated Lobo’s Voyage to Abyssinia and (probably) wrote some essays...

...; the investiture of Bruce as governor of Ras el Feel; Bruce’s lachrymose farewell to Tecla Mariam, “the most beautiful woman in Abyssinia after Orozo Esther.” All Wolcot does is to ring the changes on “wonders”: What makes a tale so sleepy, languid, dull? Things as they happen’d...

.... 2012. Abyssinia’s Samuel Johnson: Ethiopian Thought in the Making of an English Author. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Berman, Jessica. 2011. Modernist Commitments: Ethics, Politics, and Transnational Modernism. New York: Columbia...

... of life, thereby insuring Rasselas’ ultimate return to Abyssinia and to the responsibilities of royalty. As Johnson constructs and explodes the various utopian ideals which men cherish, the humor sometimes approaches the bitter farce which we catch glimpses of in the final act of King Lear...

... Leigh Coral . 2001 . “ Acts of Vision, Acts of Aggression: Art and Abyssinia in Virginia Woolf’s Fascist Italy .” In Virginia Woolf and Fascism , edited by Pawlowski Merry M. , 75 – 91 . London : Palgrave Macmillan . Henderson Kate Krueger . 2008 . “ Fashioning Anti-Semitism...

... a season. Beckett seems aware of this in the trilogy: “The Unnamable, returning from his world tour, his leg left in the Pacific, is like the decrepit Rimbaud return- ing from Abyssinia.”23 This makes more sense if we remind ourselves of Rimbaud’s epistolary cri de coeur: “He arrives at the unknown...

.... Johnson himself indicates no such distinction in his own theory or literary usage, which is both conceptual and connotative. 8 “Preface to the English Dictionary,” Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., Oxford English Classics (Oxford, 1825), V, 27. 4 History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia...