 | esq Henry Jenkins - 1864 - 800 pàgines
...credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope ; who expect that *.ge will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficiencies...attend to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia. — 219. ^VHEREYER I went, I found that poetry was considered as the highest learning. In almost all... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 pàgines
...Traceller. Trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay. Line added to Goldsmith's Deserttd Village. Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy,...attend to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia. Rasselas. Chap. i. Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.* From Dr. Madden's " Boulter's... | |
 | Hugh George Robinson - 1867 - 458 pàgines
...arduous; and his work is not the greatest of heroic poems, only because it is not the first.15 BASSELAS. CHAP. I.— DESCRIPTION OF A PALACE IN A VALLEY. Ye...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... | |
 | 1877 - 682 pàgines
...opening sentences of Johnson's Rasselas may be arranged in verses exactly like those given above : ' Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy,...morrow, Attend to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia. ' Macaulay makes constant use of antitheses in a similar way : 'The young peer had great... | |
 | 1877 - 686 pàgines
...opening sentences of Johnson's Rassclas may be arranged in verses exactly like those given above : ' Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy,...morrow. Attend to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia.' Macaulay makes constant use of antitheses in a similar way : 'The young peer had great... | |
 | Alfred Holbrook - 1869 - 466 pàgines
...as riches are transitory, and as life itself is uncertain, it becomes us to seek a better portion. Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy,...attend to the history of Rasselas, prince of Abyssinia. 55. Exception 1. Earnest and sad delivery often require the partial close at the intermediate pauses.... | |
 | Treasury - 1869 - 474 pàgines
...Goldsmith's Traveller. Trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay. Line added to Gvldsmiths Deserted Village, Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy,...attend to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia. Rasseitu. Chap. i. Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.* From Dr. Madden' s " Boulter's... | |
 | 1921 - 774 pàgines
...opening sentence of "Rasselas" was esteemed the most beautiful in the language. Here is that sentence: "Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy...to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia." Recalling the hatred the author of "Taxation No Tyranny" had for Americans, I feel that there is a... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1872 - 864 pàgines
...great God, we spring, to thee we tend, Path, motive, guide, original, and end.1 TTu Rambler. No. 7. Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy,...history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia. Kasselas. Chap. \. I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1872 - 740 pàgines
...indicated in the opening sentence of the book, a kind of musical incantation to which the rest responds: " Ye, who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy,...to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia." It is the old moral, since the days of Solomon; but it is gently touched, and its tone of disappointment... | |
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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... 
