...Disillusionment is sustained only with a rhetorical self-consciousness that attracts its own ironies: "Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy,...attend to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia" (p. 7). Or, more subtly: "The prince, whose humanity would not suffer him to insult misery with reproof,...

...me if I was going to pick up the diarrhea. "Lady" I responded 'To pick that up you'd need a straw", ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy...the promises of youth and that the deficiencies of present day will be supplied by the morrow: attend to the history of Rasselas prince of Abissinia;...

...Text Sample 8. 1 4. Samuel Johnson: The History of Rasselas. Prince of Abyssinia (eighteenth century) 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...

...tales; whereas Johnson's opening sentence already suggests a more moralistic and sententious purpose: "Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy,...morrow; attend to the history of Rasselas prince of Abissinia." Clearly this tale is indeed by the author of The Vanity of Human Wishes, which had been...

...tales; whereas Johnson's opening sentence already suggests a more moralistic and sententious purpose: "Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy,...morrow; attend to the history of Rasselas prince of Abissinia." Clearly this tale is indeed by the author of The Vanity of Human Wishes, which had been...

...and has the most natural characters. October 14, 1902 Prince ofAbissinia, by Samuel Johnson (Romance) "Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy,...morrow, attend to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia." October 16, 1902 Quentin Durward, by Sir Walter Scott (Fiction and History) Not as interesting...

...beacon, beckon, berry: the bright fruit of the bush; see bhel I. buoy, to be seen and heeded. "You 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"- Samuel Johnson, Rasselas (1759), written...

...rapid falling away to the initial level. Take the opening sentence of Johnson's Rasselas: Ye who listed with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue...morrow; attend to the history of Rasselas prince of Abissinia.46 When a player of a musical instrument is being taught to phrase, a standard question from...

...as from my pocket). I begin my lectures on Dante to-morrow, with the first sentence of Easselas: " Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope," etc. When I have finished Dante — say, twelve lectures or so — I take up the Spanish drama. I have...

...Voltaire's Candide, which was published in the same year, a warning against optimism. It is addressed to 'Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope'. The hero of this fable, Rasselas, is a prince of Abyssinia who, like other princes of Abyssinia from...