 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - 1854 - 440 pages
...rends his heart Bids expectation rise. Hope, like a glimmering taper's light, Adorns and cheers his way, And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray." This is poetry. Every one must feel that it is; and, like the taper in the second stanza, it grows... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1855 - 582 pages
...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 ray. SONG. From the Oratorio of the Captivity. O MEMORY ! thou fond deceiver, Still importunate and vain,... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1855 - 610 pages
...rends the heart, Bids expeetation rise. Hope, like the glimm'ring taper's light, Adorns and eheers the way ; And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray. Goldsmith. Hope ! let the wreteh, onee eonseimft of the joy, Whom now despairing agonies destroy, Speak,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1856 - 560 pages
...of his breath, On hope the wretch relies ; And e'en the pang preceding death Bids expectation rise. Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, Adorns and...as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray.* Second PRIEST. Why this delay? At length for joy prepare ; I read your looks, and see compliance there.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1856 - 448 pages
...rends the heart, Bids expectation rise. Hope, like the glimm'ring taper's light, Adorns and cheers the way ; And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray AN ELEGY ON THE GLOBY OF HER SEX, MRS. MARY BLAIZE. GOOD people all, with one accord, Lament for Madam... | |
 | Daniel Dana Buck - 1856 - 328 pages
...things not seen." — Seb. xi. 1. HOPE. "Hope, like the glimmering taper's light, Adorns and cheers the way ; And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray." Goldsmith. " Rejoicing in Hope." — Rom. xii. 12. " Saved by Hope." — Bom viii. 24. CHAPTER III.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1857 - 304 pages
...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 ray. SECOND PRIEST. Recitative. Why this delay ? At length for joy prepare ; I read your looks, and see... | |
 | Misty morning - 1857 - 348 pages
...started and fainted away. CHAPTER XXXVI. Hope, like the glimm'ring taper's light, Adorns and cheers the way ; And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray. Goldsmith. "¥E'VE been a deevil o' a time, chaps; and back without him, for a'," said Benjie, the... | |
 | Julia Cecilia Stretton - 1857 - 352 pages
...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 ray." — COWPBR I FOUND myself repeating these words, even at the very door of Lady Maria's house at Brighton.... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1858 - 348 pages
...that soonest pass away. The rose that lives its little hour Is prized beyond the sculptured flower. Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, Adorns and...still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray. Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife ; To all the sensual world proclaim, One glorious hour of crowded... | |
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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, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter... 
