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The English instructor; or, Useful and entertaining passages in prose ... - Page 92
by English instructor - 1801 - 258 pages
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Rasselas: A Tale

Samuel Johnson - 1860 - 250 pages
...Equinoctial, ceguus, nox. Subterranean, terra. YE who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and 1 pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope, who expect...will be supplied by the morrow, — attend to the history of Easselas, prince of Abyssinia. Easselas was the fourth son of the mighty emperor, in 2 whose...
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A Handy Book on Dinners: Dinners and Diners at Home and Abroad

Edward Litt Laman Blanchard - 1860 - 130 pages
...:i brace button, and the mighty spirit was reminded of the links that united it with mortality .' Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy,...with eagerness the phantoms of hope, who expect that the next hour is to fulfil the promises of this, and that the deficiencies of the tailor are to be...
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A Grammar of the English Language: Adpated to the Use of Schools and Academies

Samuel Stillman Greene - English language - 1860 - 276 pages
...nominative independent, and may be limited, like a noun or pronoun, in any other relation ; as, " Ye, who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope, * » » attend to the history of Kasselas, Prince of Abyssinia." 158. Exercise. 1. Separate the following...
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Temple Bar, Volume 69

1883 - 598 pages
...the permanent traits of man's nature. Those " who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, or pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope ; who expect...of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present will be supplied by the morrow," have been invited by the author of ' Easselas ' to attend to the history...
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Synthesis of the English Sentence, Or, An Elementary Grammar on the ...

John Mahelon Berry Sill - English language - 1863 - 240 pages
...singular number, and independent by exclamation. Parse the nouns in the following exercises : 1. " Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy,...of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present will be supplied by the morrow ; attend to the history of Kasselas, Prince of Abyssinia. 2. " Easselas...
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The rev. Alfred Hoblush and his curacies, by the author of Roman ..., Page 54

Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald - 1863 - 326 pages
...BEOOM 249 THE EIGHTH CURACY ........ 272 THE REV. ALFRED HOBLUSH {[is (terns. . THE FIRST CURACY. YE who listen with credulity to the whispers of Fancy,...eagerness the phantoms of Hope ; who expect that Age will dissipate the shyness of Youth; attend to the history of Hoblush, sometime curate of Saint Stylites....
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Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, Volume 5

Tresham Gilbey - Recreation - 1863 - 406 pages
...Christianity. That this burlesque will not be ready at Christmas is, however, quite possible, and ' ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope," will not be able to ' attend to the history of "Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia,"' till early in January....
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Essays

Henry Thomas Buckle - 1863 - 226 pages
...hindrance to continuous labour. He whose bread is provided for him is too apt to say, with Rasselas, that ' the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow ; ' that he is not an athlete to whom every moment is precious. But none of these Siren voices had...
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Scraps. [An anthology, ed.] by H. Jenkins

esq Henry Jenkins - 1864 - 800 pages
...burden loads the day, And when God sends a cheerful hour, refrains. JOHNSON.— RASSELAS. (1822.) YE who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy,...with eagerness the phantoms of hope ; who expect that *.ge will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied...
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Familiar Quotations: Being an Attempt to Trace to Their Source Passages and ...

John Bartlett - Quotations - 1865 - 504 pages
...Traceller. Trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay. Line added to Goldsmith's Deserttd Village. Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy,...day will be supplied by the morrow ; attend to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia. Rasselas. Chap. i. Words are men's daughters, but God's sons...
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