 What a gloom hangs all around ! The dying lamp feebly emits a yellow gleam ; no sound is heard but of the chiming clock, or the distant watch-dog. All the bustle of human pride is forgotten ; an hour like this may well display the emptiness of human vanity....  Select British Classics - Pagina 761804Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | william harrison ainsworth - 1866
...when all that mighty heart (as Wordsworth says) is lying still, speculates on a possible time coming when this temporary solitude may be made continual,...inhabitants, fade away, and leave a desert in its room. He bethinks him of other cities, great as this, that once triumphed in existence and promised themselves... | |
 | 1866
...Wordsworth says) is lying still, speculates on a possible time coming when this temporary solitude may he made continual, and the city itself, like its inhabitants, fade away, and leave a desert in its room. He bethinks him of other cities, great as this, that once triumphed in existence and promised themselves... | |
 | James Currie (A.M.) - 1867
...feebly emits a yellow gleam ; no sound is heard hut of the chiming clock or the distant watch-dog. All the bustle of human pride is forgotten : an hour like...continual, and the city itself, like its inhabitants, fall away and leave a desert in its room. What cities as great as this have once triumphed in existence,... | |
 | Class-book - 1869 - 324 pagina’s
...feebly emits a yellow gleam ; no sound is heard but of the chiming clock or the distant watch-dog ; all the bustle of human pride is forgotten. An hour like...There will come a time when this temporary solitude will be made continual, and the city itself, like its inhabitants, fade away, and leave a desert in... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1869
...feebly emits a yellow gleam ; no sound is heard but of the chiming clock, or the distant watch-dog. All hte maybe made continual, and the city itself, like its inhabitants, fade away, and leave a desert in its... | |
 | H.A. CLEVELAND - 1869
...feebly emits a yellow gleam; no sound is heard but of the chiming clock or the distant watch-dog ; all the bustle of human pride is forgotten. An hour like...There will come a time when this temporary solitude will be made continual, and the city itself, like its inhabitants, fade away, and leave a desert in... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1869 - 695 pagina’s
...feebly emits a yellow gleam ; no sound is heard but of the chiming clock, or the distant watch-dog. All the bustle of human pride is forgotten : an hour like...There will come a time, when this temporary solitude maybe made continual, and the city itself, like its inhabitants, fade away, and leave a desert in its... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1869 - 366 pagina’s
...feebly emits a yellow gleam; no sound is heard but of the chiming clock or the distant watch-dog. All the bustle of human pride Is forgotten : an hour like...display the emptiness of human vanity. There will cornea time when this temporary solitude may be made continual, and t tie city itself, like its inhabitants,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1872 - 776 pagina’s
...feebly «mils a yellow gleam: no sound is heard but of the chiming clock or the distant watch-dt>g : all the bustle of human pride is forgotten. An hour like this may well display the emptiness ot human vanity. There will come a time when this temporary solitude may b« made continual, and the... | |
 | 1880 - 541 pagina’s
...feebly emits a yellow gleam; no sound is heard but of the chiming clock or the distant watch-dog. All the bustle of human pride is forgotten ; an hour like...its inhabitants, fade away, and leave a desert in ts room. " What cities, as £reat as this, have once triumphed in existence, had their victories as... | |
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