 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 728 страници
...BOSWELL. THE HISTORY OF RASSELAS, PRINCE OF ABISSINIA. CHAP. I. DESCRIPTION OF A PALACE IN A VALLEY. YE who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy,...morrow ; attend to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia. Rasselas was the fourth son of the mighty emperor, in whose dominions the Father of Waters... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 508 страници
...1790, N«. 1. THE HISTORY RASSELAS, PRINCE OF ABISSINIA. CHAP. I. DESCRIPTION OF A PALACE IN A VALLEY. YE, who listen, with credulity, to the whispers of...morrow ; attend to the history of Rasselas, prince of Abissinia. • Rasselas was the fourth son of the mighty emperour, in whose dominions the father of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 508 страници
...V •. 1, THE HISTORY RASSELAS, PRINCE OF ABISSIN1A. CHAP. I. DESCRIPTION OF A PALACE IN A VALLEY. YE, who listen, with credulity, to the whispers of...morrow ; attend to the history of Rasselas, prince of Abissinia. Rasselas was the fourth son of the mighty emperour, in whose dominions the father of waters... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 750 страници
...RASSELAS: A TALE. BY SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D. RASSELAS. CHAPTER I. Description' of a Palace in a Valley, Yr. who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy,...age will perform the promises of youth, and that the déficiences of the present day will be supplied by the morrow ; attend to the history of Kasselas... | |
 | 1826 - 478 страници
...obvious moral, which it is designed to incolcate. Dr. Johnson thus introduces the history of Rasselas. " Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy,...of the present day, will be supplied by the morrow ; listen to the history of Kasselas, Prince of Abyssinia." What reader now of common understanding,... | |
 | 1826 - 490 страници
...over a sentence involving them, and attentively examines at the time the operations of his own mind. " Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope," &c. What meaning could I attach to " credulity," if I never myself had been credulous; or to " fancy,"... | |
 | William Russell, William Channing Woodbridge, Fordyce Mitchell Hubbard - 1831 - 792 страници
...over a sentence involving them, and attentively examines at the time the operations of his own mind. ' Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope,' &.c. What meaning could I attach to ' credulity,' if I never myself had been credulous ; or to ' fancy,'... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1827 - 160 страници
...Conclusion, in which nothing is concluded 146 RASSELAS. CHAP. L Description of a Palace in a Palley. 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... | |
 | 1827 - 854 страници
...a sentence involving them, and attentively examines, at the time, the operations of his own mind. " Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope," &c. What meaning could I attach to " credulity," if I had never myself been credulous; orto "fancy,"... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1829 - 142 страници
...scatters over half the world the harvests of Egypt. YE who listen with credulity to the whispers erf fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope...attend to the history of Rasselas, prince of Abyssinia. According to the custom which has descended from age to age among the monarchs of the torrid zone,... | |
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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... 
