 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
 | Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1895 - 660 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...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... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1895 - 670 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...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... | |
 | English essays - 1900 - 492 pages
...yellow gleam ; no sound in heard but of the chiming clock, or the distant watch-dog. All the bust!" of human pride is forgotten ; an hour like this may...There will come a time when this temporary solitude mr.;- be made continual, and the city itself, like its inhabitants, fade away, and leave a desert in... | |
 | Jeannette Augustus Marks - Wales - 1912 - 258 pages
...between the leaves of this book, I turned to and opened " A City Night-Peace," reading, "There may come a time when this temporary solitude may be made...inhabitants, fade away, and leave a desert in its room." Then we went through into the sunshine in the courtyard beyond, the book clasped tightly in my hand,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1914 - 434 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...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... | |
 | William Black - 1918 - 182 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 be marie continual and the city itself, like its inhabitants, fade away, and leave a desert in its room.... | |
 | Francis Patrick Donnelly - English language - 1919 - 328 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...this may well display the emptiness of human vanity. — GOLDSMITH : A City Night Piece. Subjects Describe: A country scene to awaken content. A mountain... | |
 | Stephen Coleridge - English prose literature - 1923 - 290 pages
...feebly emits a yellow gleam ; no sound is heard but of the chiming clock, or the distant watchdog. All the bustle of human pride is forgotten : an hour like...well display the emptiness of human vanity." There emerges another passage in Sartor Resartus, in the chapter entitled " The Everlasting Yea," where there... | |
 | Alban Bertram De Mille - English drama - 1924 - 552 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...inhabitants, fade away and leave a desert in its room." From the pa1nt1ng by S1r Joshua Reynolds. " The Citizen of the World." This passage suggests the method... | |
 | R. ABERCROMBIE M.A - 1885 - 1098 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 he made continual, and the city itself, like its inhabitants, fade away, and leave a desert in its... | |
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