 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 - Page 761804Full view - About this book
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1881 - 780 pages
...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... | |
 | William Black - Authors, Irish - 1883 - 268 pages
...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...What cities, as great as this, have once triumphed in V v existence, had their victories as great, joy as just and as unbounded ; and, with short-sighted... | |
 | James Baldwin - English language - 1883 - 612 pages
...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...vanity. There will come a time when this temporary solitnde may be made continual, and the city itself, like its inhabitants, fade away and leave a desert... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1885 - 494 pages
...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...its room. What cities, as great as this, have once trmmph'd in existence ; had their victories as great as ours ; joy as just, and as unbounded as we... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1884 - 554 pages
...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...its room. What cities, as great as this, have once triumph'd in existence ; had their victories as great as ours ; joy as just, and as unbounded as we... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1884 - 784 pages
...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 - 1885 - 520 pages
...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...its room. What cities, as great as this, have once triumph'd in existence ; had their victories as great as ours ; joy as just, and as unbounded as we... | |
 | Robert Cochrane - Authors, English - 1887 - 572 pages
...feebly emits a yellow gleam ; no sound is heard but of the chiming clock, or the distent watch-dog. All ne tin; city itself, like its inhabitants, fade away, and leave a desert in its room. What cities, as... | |
 | Irish literature - 1893 - 386 pages
...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 l1e made continual, and the city itself, like its inhabitants, fade away, and leave a desert in its... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1893 - 780 pages
...feebly emits a yellow gleam ; no sound is heard but of the chiming clock, or the distant watch-dog. All urn " Here," he cries, " stood their citadel, now grown over with weeds ; there their senate-house, but... | |
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