 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 - Pągina 103editat per - 1833Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1877 - 682 pągines
...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... | |
 | 1877 - 686 pągines
...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 - 1867 - 466 pągines
...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 - 1867 - 772 pągines
...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 pągines
...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 - 1869 - 466 pągines
...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 - 1870 - 802 pągines
...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 - 1872 - 740 pągines
...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 pągines
...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 - 1874 - 798 pągines
...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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