 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 750 Seiten
...RASSELAS: A TALE. BY SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D. RASSELAS. CHAPTER I. Description' of a Palace in a Valley, Yr. who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy,...age will perform the promises of youth, and that the déficiences of the present day will be supplied by the morrow ; attend to the history of Kasselas... | |
 | 1826 - 478 Seiten
...moral, which it is designed to incolcate. Dr. Johnson thus introduces the history of Rasselas. " Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy,...of the present day, will be supplied by the morrow ; listen to the history of Kasselas, Prince of Abyssinia." What reader now of common understanding,... | |
 | 1826 - 490 Seiten
...sentence involving them, and attentively examines at the time the operations of his own mind. " Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope," &c. What meaning could I attach to " credulity," if I never myself had been credulous; or to " fancy,"... | |
 | 1827 - 854 Seiten
...sentence involving them, and attentively examines, at the time, the operations of his own mind. " Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope," &c. What meaning could I attach to " credulity," if I had never myself been credulous; orto "fancy,"... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1829 - 142 Seiten
...scatters over half the world the harvests of Egypt. YE who listen with credulity to the whispers erf fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope...day will be supplied by the morrow ; attend to the history of Rasselas, prince of Abyssinia. According to the custom which has descended from age to age... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1831 - 138 Seiten
...CHAPTER I. Description of a Palace in a Valley. YE who listen with credulity to the whispers of fan* cy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope . who...day will be supplied by the morrow ; attend to the history of Raaselas, Prince of Abyssinia. Rasselas was the fourth son of the mighty emperor in whose... | |
 | 1831 - 794 Seiten
...sentence involving them, and attentively examines at the time the operations of his own mind. ' Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of iepe,' &c. What meaning could I attach to ' credulity,' if I never myself had been credulous } or to... | |
 | 1833 - 614 Seiten
...paragraph to save reference ; the reader himself may insert the epithets so lamentably wanting. " Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy,...day will be supplied by the morrow; attend to the history of Kasselas, Prince of Abyssinia." Under the heads of the several nouns, the Gradus of Euphuism... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1833 - 412 Seiten
...one, even Dr. Johnson himself, — every body will recognize the opening sentence of Rasselas. " Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy,...phantoms of hope, who expect that age will perform the pronuses of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow, attend... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1833 - 162 Seiten
...Conclusion, in which nothing is con. , (Juried. 143 RASSELAS. CHAP. t Description of a Palace in a Fallcy. YE who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of liope ; who expect that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficiencl j of the present... | |
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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... 
