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The Works of Samuel Johnson, Ll. D.: Containing Adventurer and Rasselas - Page 295
by Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820
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The Novels of Sterne, Goldsmith, Dr. Johnson, Mackenzie, Horace Walpole, and ...

Laurence Sterne - 1823 - 764 pages
...he reforms she may be brought to relent. RASSELAS. 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 Abyssinia. Kasselas was the fourth son of the mighty emperor, in whose dominions the father of waters...
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The Vicar of Wakefield: A Tale

Oliver Goldsmith - 1823 - 768 pages
...RASSELAS: A TALE. BY SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D. RASSELAS. CHAP. 1. Description of a Palace in a Valley. YE, who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy,...supplied by the morrow ; attend to the history of Hasselas, Prince of Abyssinia. Kasselas was the fourth son of the mighty emperor, in whose dominions...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson: LL.D. A New Edition in Twelve Volumes ..., Volume 5

Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 612 pages
...BOSWELL. THE HISTORY or RASSELAS, PRINCE OF ABYSSINIA. CHAP. I. DESCRIPTION OF A PALACE IN A VALLEY. YE who listen with credulity to the whispers of \ fancy,...day will be supplied by the morrow ; attend to the his- , tory of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia. Rasselas was the fourth son of the mighty emperour, in...
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The novels of Sterne, Goldsmith, dr. Johnson, Mackenzie, Horace Walpole, and ...

Laurence Sterne - 1823 - 762 pages
...CHAP. 1. Description of a Palace in a Valley. YE, who listen with credulity to the whispers of fency, e satisfaction, Abyssinia. Kasselas was the fourth son of the mighty emperor, in whose dominions the father of waters...
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The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia: A Tale

Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 64 pages
...period. THK HISTORY OF RASSELAS, PRINCE OF ABYSSINIA. CHAP. I. DESCRIPTION OF A PALACE IN A VALLEY. YE who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy,...phantoms of hope; who expect that age will perform the promise of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow; attend...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson ...: Essay on the life and genius of Dr. Johnson ...

Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 508 pages
...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 fancy,...Abissinia. • Rasselas was the fourth son of the mighty emperour, in whose dominions the father of waters begins his course ; whose bounty pours down the streams...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 1

Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 508 pages
...•. 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 fancy,...Abissinia. Rasselas was the fourth son of the mighty emperour, in whose dominions the father of waters begins his course ; whose bounty pours down the streams...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 750 pages
...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...
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The Christian Magazine, Volume 3

1826 - 478 pages
...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,...
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The United States Literary Gazette, Volume 4

1826 - 490 pages
...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,"...
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