 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...  The works of Samuel Johnson - Page 373by Samuel Johnson - 1824Full view - About this book
 | English instructor - English literature - 1801 - 272 pages
...vain and unprofitable. GUARDIAH. 92 TH« ENGLISH INSTRUCTOR. YOUNG MEN OF SPIRIT AND GAIETY (l). J- E who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy,...day will be supplied by the morrow ,- attend to the enquiries of Rasselas prince of Abissinia. Rasselas rose next day, and resolved to begin his experiments... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Ethiopia - 1810 - 230 pages
...which nothing is concluded, 324 RASSELAS, PRINCE OF ABISSINIA. CHAP. I. DESCRIPTION OF A PALACE IS A VALLEY. YE who listen with credulity to the whispers...and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope ; who cxpc<Sl that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day will... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Francis William Blagdon - English fiction - 1811 - 250 pages
...Europe: for it has been translated into most, if not all, of the modern languages. BOSWELL. HISTORY or RASSELAS, PRINCE OF ABISSINIA, CHAPTER I. DESCRIPTION...age will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow ; attend to the history of Rasselas,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 428 pages
...OF RASSELAS, PRINCE OF ABISSINIA. CHAPTER I. DESCRIPTION OF A PALACE IN A VALLEY. YE who listen wkh credulity to the -whispers of fancy, and pursue with...age will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow ; attend to the history of Rasselas,... | |
 | Proverbs - 1814 - 568 pages
...successful ; but rather " ad morem Mandrabuli," to become every day worse. It may be applied to those " who expect that age will perform the promises of youth...of the present day will be supplied by the morrow :" but who will most likely be disappointed. • . Who Mandrabulus was is not known, but it is recorded... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1815 - 272 pages
...Description of a Palace lAi Valley. §* J ;n with erectly lo the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eageruess the phantoms of hope ; who expect that age will perform...will be supplied by the morrow; attend to the history ofRasselas, prince of Abyssinia. Rasselas was the fourth sou of the mighty emperor, in whose dominions... | |
 | Joseph Dennie - American essays - 1817 - 190 pages
...apartment. The dawn reveals the cheat to insulted fondness: for, in the morning behold it was Leah. " Ye, who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope," learn to be on your guard against the cheating Labans of life, and rely not too implicitly on the expectation... | |
 | 1821 - 702 pages
...and striking to justify the preceding observation. " Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers ot fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope,...expect that age will perform the promises of youth, nod that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow, attend to the history... | |
 | 664 pages
...be quoted more apt and striking to justify the preceding observation. " Ye who listen with crednlity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope, who expect that aee will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 462 pages
...•:1.. 1'* HISTORY OF RASSELAS, PRINCE OF ABISSINIA. CHAP. I. DESCRIPTION OF A PALACE IN A VALLEY. \ E who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope 5 who expect that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present... | |
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