叶与谁听轻信的幻想，追求与渴望的希望幽灵的蛊惑，谁希望这个年龄以下的青年表演的承诺，并认为现今的不足之处将由明天提供的，照顾到历史在拉塞拉斯，王子的阿比西尼亚。
    拉塞拉斯是在其领地的海域父亲的伟大皇帝开始他的第四个儿子 - 当然，其悬赏倾盆富足的溪流，和世界各地的散射埃及的收成。
    雅高
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    YE who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow, attend to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia.
    Rasselas was the fourth son of the mighty Emperor in whose dominions the father of waters begins his course - whose bounty pours down the streams of plenty, and scatters over the world the harvests of Egypt.
    Accor