 | Evenings - 1871 - 428 pagini
...watchwords, a lighting of the beacon fire, — all "the pomp and circumstance of war !" CHAPTER III. " Hope, like the glimmering taper's light, Adorns and...still as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter raj." — Goldsmith. SEVENTEEN hundred and forty-five ! Howmany associations are linked in a Scottish... | |
 | Lady Wood - 1871 - 332 pagini
...angle of the garden-wall, which might account for its not reaching her. CHAPTER IV. ' Hope, like a glimmering taper's light, Adorns and cheers the way, And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a clearer ray.' A BRIGHT hope dawned on her after a little space. She was a woman of no inventive faculty,... | |
 | 1877 - 362 pagini
...— HOPE withering fled, and Mercy sighed Farewell ! BYRON, The Corsair. — The wretch condemn' d with life to part, Still, still on HoPE relies; And...every pang that rends the heart Bids expectation rise. — GOLDSMITH, The Capticity. — HOPK. like the gleaming taper's light, Adorus and cheers the way... | |
 | John Cunningham Geikie - 1877 - 424 pagini
...dealer. inscribe', to write on. extinguished, put out. pecu'liar, special. aspire', to hope for. HOPE. Still, still on hope relies ; And every pang that rends the heart THE wretch, condemned with life to part, Bids expectation rise. Hope, like the glimmering taper's light,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1878 - 494 pagini
...she dwelt upon it.f CHAPTER XXXVI. THE 8ALLT. The wretch conderau'd with life to part, Still still OH hope relies. And every pang that rends the heart Bids...taper's light, Adorns and cheers the way ; And still, the darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray. GOLDSMITH. FEW days had passed ere Louis had received,... | |
 | William Van Ness Bay - 1878 - 640 pagini
...hope of a better day. This hope has been beautifully described by Goldsmith: " Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, Adorns and cheers the way ; And still, as darker grows the light, Emits a brighter ray." He died leaving a large family to mourn his loss. PHILIP COLE. In the... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1878 - 896 pagini
...that rends the heart Bids expectation rise. The Captivity. Act\\. Orig. MS. Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, Adorns and cheers the way ; And still, as darker grows the light, Emits a brighter ray. ibid. The king himself has follow'd her When she has walk'd before. Elegy... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1879 - 266 pagini
...the following song from it will never die : •* The wretch condemned from life to part, Still, Mill on hope relies, And every pang that rends the heart Bids expectation rUe. Hope, like the glimmering taper's light, Illumes and cheers our way : And still, as darker grows... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1889 - 1080 pagini
...CHAPTER THIRTY-SIXTH. THE SALLY. The wretch condemn'd with life to part, Still, still on hope relics, And every pang that rends the heart Bids expectation...taper's light, Adorns and cheers the way ; And still, the darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray. GOLDSMITH. FEW days had passed ere Louis had received,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1124 pagini
...None think the great unhappy, but the great. Lffo€ qf Fame, Satin 1. DR. E. YOUNG. HOPE IN MlSEBY. V P d liids expectation rise. Tht Captivity, ./,/ li. GOLDSMITH. The worst is not So long as we can say,... | |
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The wretch, condemn'd with life to part, Still still on hope relies, And every pang that rends the heart Bids expectation rise. Hope, like the glimmering taper's light, Adorns and cheers the way ; And still, the darker grows the night, Emits a brighter... 
