 | Hugh George Robinson - 1867 - 458 pàgines
...poems, only because it is not the first.15 BASSELAS. CHAP. I.— DESCRIPTION OF A PALACE IN A VALLEY. Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy,...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... | |
 | 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,...day will be supplied by the morrow, Attend to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia. ' Macaulay makes constant use of antitheses in a similar... | |
 | 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,...day will be supplied by the morrow. Attend to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia.' Macaulay makes constant use of antitheses in a similar way... | |
 | Daniel Stevens Dickinson - 1867 - 772 pàgines
...appointed goal, but who shall secure the greatest aggregate of happiness in the transit ; each expecting " that age will perform the promises of youth, and that...of the present day will be supplied by the morrow." One •chains himself to the car of Avarice, and toils with skinny hand beneath its crushing wheels,... | |
 | 1907 - 506 pàgines
...RASSELAS. PRINCE OF ABYSSINIA. BY SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL. D. CHAPTER I. DESCRIPTION OF A PALACE IN A VALLEY. Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy,...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... | |
 | Wayne C. Booth - 1983 - 576 pàgines
...is no real hope of reaching it. "Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and persue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that...day will be supplied by the morrow; attend to the history of Rasselas prince of Abbissinia." Attend to it, yes, but do not expect to participate in it... | |
 | Iowa State Bar Association - 1896 - 1030 pàgines
...credulity to the whisperings of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who believe that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day^ will be helped by the morrow, attend to the history of Rasselas, the Prince of Abyssinia." Yes, I think that... | |
 | Frederick Burwick - 2010 - 357 pàgines
...blighted by disappointments that reveal "the fallacies of imagination." The opening lines ofRasselas—"Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope"—make clear that this, too, is a cautionary tale concerned with the dangers of the imagination.... | |
 | Ann Messenger - 1986 - 208 pàgines
...with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age will perform the promises of youth, and that deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow; attend to the history of Rasselas prince of Abissinia"(l). One might say that the conclusion is implicit in the syntax... | |
 | William J. Gilmore - 1992 - 572 pàgines
...Participation in Lending Libraries by Size of Library [ 471 ] Preface DESCRIPTION OF A PALACE IN A VALLEY Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy,...day will be supplied by the morrow; attend to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia. — Samuel Johnson The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia... | |
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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... 
