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... Five Occasional Lectures: Delivered in Montreal - Seite 65von Francis Fulford - 1859 - 118 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Samuel Kirkham - 1842 - 386 Seiten
...benevolence is there in thy conduct' ? yea', rather', is it not hypoerisy' ? Ye who listen with eredulity to the whispers of fancy', and pursue with eagerness...to the history of Rasselas', prince of Abyssinia'. Example. — The Brigantines', even under a female leader', had force enough to burn the enemy's settlements',... | |
| Gilbert Abbott A'Beckett, Samuel Laman Blanchard - 1842 - 366 Seiten
...how it would come spluttering forth from the clumsy pen of bis imitators. " ' DR. JOHNSON HIMSELF. " 'Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy,...phantoms of hope ; who expect that age will perform the promise of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow; attend... | |
| George Cruikshank - 1842 - 366 Seiten
...how it would come spluttering forth from the clumsy pen of his imitators. ' ' DR. JOHNSON HIMSELF. " 'Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy,...phantoms of hope ; who expect that age will perform the promise of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow ; attend... | |
| George Cruikshank - 1841 - 390 Seiten
...would come spluttering forth from the clumsy pen of his imitators. *' * DR. JOHNSON IIIMSKi.K. " ' Yo who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoml of hope ; who expect that age will perform the promise of youth, and that the deficiencies... | |
| Martin Farquhar Tupper - 1844 - 284 Seiten
...TRUANT; A TALE OF A HAT. Shewing how a man may go further than he means, and come hack all the wiser. " YE who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy,...eagerness the phantoms of hope ;" who expect that tomorrow will honour all the drafts of to-day ; and that the plots of selfishness will not be blown... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1862 - 604 Seiten
...hindrance to continuous labor. He whose bread is provided for him is too apt to say, with Rasselas,. that "the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow ;" that he is not an athlete to whom every moment is precious. But none of these Syren voices had charms... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1846 - 416 Seiten
...RASSELAS. HISTORY OF RASSELAS, PRINCE OF ABYSSINIA. CHAPTER I. DESCB.IPTION OF A PALACE IN A VALLEY. YE who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy,...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... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1846 - 184 Seiten
.... 169 THE HISTORY OF RASSELAS, PRINCE OF ABYSSINIA. CHAPTER I. DESCRIPTION OF A PALACE IN A VALLEf. YE who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy,...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... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1846 - 194 Seiten
...RASSELAS, Rasselas. PRINCE OF ABYSSINIA. Vol. I. CHAPTER 1. Description of a palace in a ualley. I e who listen with credulity to the whispers' of fancy,...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... | |
| John Hunter (of Uxbridge.) - 1848 - 224 Seiten
...containing the detail of their own grievances, and the articles of their charge against Columbus. Robertson. Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy,...attend to the history of Rasselas prince of Abyssinia. Johnson. Pansa no sooner received the letters than he summoned the senate, to acquaint them with the... | |
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