 | Samuel Longfellow - 2004 - Liczba stron: 481
...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... | |
 | John Carey - 2006 - Liczba stron: 300
...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... | |
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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... 
