 | Francis Fulford - 1859 - 120 pages
...though not all expressed in simple Saxon, yet is encumbered with none of his sesquipedalian words : " Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy...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... | |
 | Frederic Swartwout Cozzens - 1859 - 346 pages
...woe-begone set of vagabonds ; a burden upon the community ; of no use to themselves, nor to anybody else." " Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy...by the morrow, attend to the history of Rasselas, here in his happy valley." " Now then," said my companion, as this trite quotation was passing through... | |
 | Frederic Swartwout Cozzens - 1859 - 374 pages
...woe-begone set of vagabonds; a burden upon the community ; of no use to themselves, nor to anybody else." " Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy...be supplied by the morrow, attend to the history of Kasselas, here in his happy valley." " Now then," said my companion, as this trite quotation was passing... | |
 | David Masson - 1859 - 330 pages
...thread of fictitious narrative. " Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy/' it begins, " and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope, who...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... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1859 - 584 pages
...may almost be said to have been written with the blood of their authors. ' Ye,' exclaims Johnson, ' who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope, attend to the history of Rasselas Prince of Abyssinia.' \\ith much more reason might those who think... | |
 | 1859 - 578 pages
...may almost be said to have been written with the blood of their authors. ' Yo,' exclaims Johnson, ' who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope, attend to the history of Kassclas Prince of Abyssinia.' With much more reason might those who think... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1859 - 750 pages
...world may almost be said to have been written with the blood of their authors. ' Ye,' exclaims Johnson, 'who listen with credulity to the whispers of" fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope, attend to the history of Rasselas Prince of Abyssinia.' With mucb more reason might those who think... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1859 - 750 pages
...world may almost be said to> have been written with the blood of their authors. 'Ye,' exclaims Johnson, 'who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope, attend Jo the history of Rassclas Prince of Abyssinia.' With much more reason might those who think... | |
 | 1859 - 650 pages
...may almost be said to have been written •with the blood of their authors. ' Ye,' exclaims Johnson, 'who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope, attend to the history of Rasselas Prince of Abyssinia.' With much more reason might those who think... | |
 | Alfred Holbrook - 1860 - 486 pages
...as riches are transitory, and as life itself is uncertain, it becomes us to seek a better portion. Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy,...be supplied by the morrow, attend to the history of Basselas, prince of Abyssinia. 55. Exception 1. Earnest and sad delivery often require the partial... | |
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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... 
