 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...  American Monthly Knickerbocker - Page 103edited by - 1833Full view - About this book
 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 pages
...VALLEY. 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...and that the deficiencies of the present day will he supplied by the morrow; attend to the history of Rasselas, prince of Abyssinia. According to the... | |
 | Catherine Douglas Bell - Children's stories, Scottish - 1852 - 350 pages
...ftasselas. ' Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, or pnrsue with eagw•em the phantoms of hope ; who expect that age will perform the promises of youth, of that the deficiences of th^ present day will be supplied by the morrow' — give ear I It ua remarkable... | |
 | Fiction - 1853 - 496 pages
...Valley. 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...morrow ; attend to the history of Rasselas, prince of Abissinia. Rasselas was th e fourth son of the mighty emperor, in whose dominions the father of waters... | |
 | James Hamilton - Bible - 1853 - 400 pages
...Ecclesiastes : ' 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...present day will be supplied by the morrow, attend,' " Ac. — P*or STOWB. XXI the present wistful and restless times. He also hoped that its illustration... | |
 | American periodicals - 1855 - 504 pages
...— < 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 the present day will be supplied by the morrow, remember that the almighty dollar is a sort of homage that vice pays to virtue. In the beautiful words... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1856 - 660 pages
...Chapter i. 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...attend to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia. Epitaph on Robert Levett. In Misery's darkest cavern known, His useful care was ever nigh, Where hopeless... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1856 - 118 pages
...Valley, 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...day will be supplied by the morrow ; attend to the nistory of Rasselas prince of Abissinia. Rasselas was the fourth son of the mighty emperor, in whose... | |
 | Francis Fulford (bp. of Montreal.) - 1859 - 484 pages
...words, : " 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...to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia." Scarcely less known, and even more striking, are the words of Bishop Home, in which he describes the... | |
 | Christianity - 1859 - 1030 pages
...it: '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...attend to the history of Rasselas, prince of Abyssinia. Ras' selas,' proceeds the moralist, not unmindful, as it should seem, of the influence of Father Nile... | |
 | David Masson - English fiction - 1859 - 330 pages
...listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy/' it begins, " and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope, who expect that age will perform the promises...to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia." And so on the story rolls, poetic and gloomy, like a bit of the Black Sea ! There could not be a greater... | |
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