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, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter... The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith - Page 291by Oliver Goldsmith - 1809Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 809 pages
...Com?, let us hie, and quaff a cheery bowl ; Let cyder new wash sorrow from thy soul. Gay't Poêlerait. Hope, like the glimmering taper's light, Adorns and...cheers the way ; And still as darker grows the night EmiU a brighter ray. Goldsmith. And none did love him — though to hall and bower Ho gathered revellers... | |
 | 1830 - 508 pages
...The wretch, condemn'd with life to part, Still, still on hope relies ; And every pang that rends his heart, Bids expectation rise. Hope, like the glimmering...as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray." Is lhis poetry? asks Mr. Montgomery ; — every reader feels it is. Yet., " if the same ideas were... | |
 | George Combe - 1830 - 732 pages
...circumstance of resemblance, which, according to LOCKE'S definition, would be the perfection of Wit : " Hope, like the glimmering taper's light, Adorns and...still as darker grows the night Emits a brighter ray." But this, in point of fact, is only exquisitely beautiful, and not in the least witty. In like manner,... | |
 | George Combe - 1830 - 738 pages
...circumstance of resemblance, which, according to LOCKE'S definition, would be the perfection of Wit : " Hope, like the glimmering taper's light, Adorns and cheers the way, And still at darker grows ih'i night Emits a brighter rag." But this, in point of fact, is only exquisitely beautiful,... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1831 - 416 pages
...CHAPTER XIX. THE SALLY. The wretch condemn'd with life to part, Still still on hope relies, And every pang that rends the heart Bids expectation rise. Hope,...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,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1831 - 418 pages
...wretch condemn'd with life to part, Still still on hope relies, And every pang that rends the heart Hids expectation rise. Hope, like the glimmering 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,... | |
 | James Montgomery - 1832 - 484 pages
...The wretch, condemn'd with life to part. Still, still on hope relies ; And every pang that rends hla heart, Bids expectation rise. Hope, like the glimmering...taper's light, Adorns and cheers the way ; And still, aa darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray." Is this poetry ? Every reader feels that it is. Yet,... | |
 | 1833 - 434 pages
...prevailed. He might truly be said to present a correct picture of Goldsmith's beautiful lines — " Hope, like the glimmering taper's light, Adorns and...as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray." CHAPTER XXI. THE period which called forth all the kind offices of Mrs. Grey, at length arrived : Caroline... | |
 | 1833 - 244 pages
...father's displeasure in some measure abated. Thus it is that the influence of hope, ' Like the gliminerine taper's light, * Adorns and cheers the way ; ' And...still, as darker grows the night, ' Emits a brighter lay.' Interdicted by the positive command of her father, Elizabeth could not write to Henry ; but she... | |
 | James Montgomery - 1833 - 528 pages
...The wretch, condemn'd with life to part, Still, still on hope relies, And every pang that rends his heart Bids expectation rise. " Hope, like the glimmering taper's light, Adorns and cheers his way, And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray." GOLDSMITH. Is this poetry ? Every... | |
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