 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
 | 1814 - 568 pages
...successful ; but rather " ad morem Mandrabuli," to become every day worse. It may be applied to those " who expect that age will perform the promises of youth...of the present day will be supplied by the morrow :" but who will most likely be disappointed. • . Who Mandrabulus was is not known, but it is recorded... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 250 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...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 484 pages
...VALLEY. E 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. Rasselas was the fourth son of the mighty emperour, in whose dominions the Father of Waters... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1817 - 194 pages
...VaUey. 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 was the fourth son of the mighty emperor in whose dominions the Father of Waters begins his... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 420 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...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... | |
 | 664 pages
...fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope, who expect that aee will perform the promises or youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day...morrow, attend to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia!" Here you have a harmony in the words, and an expression so purely poetical, that verse... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 466 pages
...VALLEY. JL E 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. Rasselas was the fourth son of the mighty emperor, in whose dominions the Father of Waters... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 278 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...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... | |
 | 1820 - 286 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...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 - 1820 - 456 pages
...VALLEY. JL E 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. Rasselas was the fourth son of the mighty emperor, in whose dominions the Father of Waters... | |
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