 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
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 480 pagina’s
...of human pride is forgotten, and this hour may well display the emptiness of human vanity. There may come a time when this temporary solitude may be made...triumphed in existence ; had their victories as great as ours ; joy as just, and as unbounded as we ; and with short-sighted presumption, promised themselves... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1854 - 576 pagina’s
...feebly emits a yellow gleam ; no sound is heard but of the ehiming eloek, or the distant wateh-dog. All the bustle of human pride is forgotten, an hour like...display the emptiness of human vanity. There will eome a time when this temporary solitude may be made eontinual, and the eity itself, like its inhabitants,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 538 pagina’s
...human vanity. There may come a time when this temporary solitude may he made continual, and the eity itself, like its inhabitants, fade away, and leave a desert in its room. What eities, as great as this, have once triumphed in existenee ; had their victories as great as ours ;... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 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...this may well display the emptiness of human vanity. V "* t^1^§^t£^ 1*£2&* ^Ve*l \* ^ Vrfrt>v V° « *e^T Tvbe °£TtcaI°' "Ss^S^ss^^ *^ fl • »XC... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - 780 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...will come a time when this temporary solitude may bu made continual, and the city itself, like its inhabitants, fade away, and leave a desert in its... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1859 - 618 pagina’s
...but of the chiming elock, or the distant watehdog. All the bustle of human pride is forgotten : »n hour like this may well display the emptiness of human...temporary solitude may be made continual, and the eity itself, like ita inhabitants, fade away, and leave a desert in its room. What eitics, as great... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1860 - 778 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...will come a time when this temporary solitude may bo made continual, and the city itself, like its inhabitants, fade away, and leave a desert in its... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 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...will come a time when this temporary solitude may bo made continual, and the city itself, like its inhabitants, fade away, and leave a desert in its... | |
 | James Stuart Laurie - 1863 - 328 pagina’s
...emits a yellow gleam; no sound is heard but that of the chiming clock or the distant watch-dog: all the bustle of human pride is forgotten. An hour like this may display the emptiness of human vanity. There will come a time when this temporary solitude will be... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 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-...will come a time when this temporary solitude may bo made continual, and the city itself, like its inhabitants, fade away, and leave a desert in its... | |
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