 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
 | English fiction - 1877 - 682 pages
...above : ' 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. ' Macaulay makes constant use of antitheses in a similar way : 'The young peer had great... | |
 | English fiction - 1877 - 686 pages
...above : ' 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 Abusinia. ' Macaulay makes constant use of antitheses in a similar way : 'The young peer had great... | |
 | Hugh George Robinson - English literature - 1867 - 466 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...be supplied by the morrow; attend to the history of Easselas, Prince of Abyssinia. Rasselas was the fourth son of the mighty emperor in whose dominions... | |
 | Daniel Stevens Dickinson - New York (State) - 1867 - 772 pages
...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,... | |
 | Marlborough coll - 1867 - 964 pages
...credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope ; who expect that ago will perform the promises of youth and that the deficiencies of the present day will bo supplied by the morrow; attend to the history of a disused Puntabout ! Last half, Mr. Editor, I... | |
 | Alfred Holbrook - Teaching - 1869 - 466 pages
...portion. 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. 55. Exception 1. Earnest and sad delivery often require the partial close at the intermediate pauses.... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1870 - 802 pages
...No. 7. 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. Rassclas. Chap, i. I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth,... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - Biography - 1872 - 740 pages
...responds: " 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." It is the old moral, since the days of Solomon; but it is gently touched, and its tone of disappointment... | |
 | 1872 - 598 pages
...America. 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 lessons of history, and be instructed by them. " The best portion of a good man's life are his little,... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1874 - 798 pages
...Ne, 7. 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. Rasselas. Chap. i. I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth,... | |
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