...home, Rests and expatiates on a life to come. POPE'S Essay on Man. 10. Hope, like the taper's gleaming light, Adorns the wretch's way, And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray. GOLDSMITH. 11. And as, in sparkling majesty, a star Gilds the bright summit of some gloomy cloud, Bright'ning...

...preceding death Bids expectation rise. Hope, like the glimmering taper's light, Adorns and cheers our way ; And still as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray." The night was very dark round Goldsmith just now, yet the ray was shining steadily too. In few of the...

...preceding death Bids expectation rise. Hope, like the glimmering taper's light, Adorns and cheers our way ; And still as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray." The night was very dark round Goldsmith just now, yet the ray was shining steadily too. In few of the...

...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...

...preceding death Bids expectation rise. Hope, like the glimmering taper's light, Adorns and cheers our way ; And still as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray." The night was very dark round Goldsmith just now, yet the ray was shining steadily too. In few of the...

...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. CHIDE NOT THE TEAR. Chide not the tear I joy bids it flow, 'Mid smiles along my cheeks ; Like those...

...want a friend in thee."] t [Also from the oratorio of the Captivity. See p. 100.] § [Originally— "Fatigued with life, yet loth to part, On hope the wretch relies ; And every blow that sinks the heajl Bids the deluder rise. Hope, like the taper's gleaming light, Adorns the wretch's way," &c.]...

...my youth ! Ah ! let us one, one little hour obey; To-morrow's tears may wash the stain away. AIR. e Fatigued with life, yet loth to part, On hope the...relies ; And every blow that sinks the heart Bids fthe deluder rise. Hope, like the taper's gleamy light, Adorns the s wretch's way ; VARIATIONS. e To...

...And every pang that rends the heart, Hope, like the glimmering taper's light.. Adorns and cheers the way ; And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray. SECOND PEIEST. Why this delay ? At length for joy prepare : I read your looks, and see compliance there. Come...

...rends the heart Bids expectation rise. Hope, like the glimmering taper's light, Illumes and cheers our way ; And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray. Goldsmith distrusted his qualifications to succeed in poetry, and doubted the disposition of the public...