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 history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia.

那些轻信幻想的低语，热切追求希望的幻影；期待老年能实现年轻时的承诺，今天的不足将在明天得到弥补的人们，请听关于阿比西尼亚王子拉塞拉斯的故事。

But in its unhappiness Johnson found no power that could overthrow his faith.

但在其不幸中，约翰逊找不到任何力量能颠覆他的信仰。