 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...gay, and striet in duty, Jaek finds his wife a perfeet beauty. THE HERMIT. A BALLAD. l76S. - TURN, y eomfort, I'm prepar'd. HER RIGHT NAME. As Naney at her toilet sat, A eheers the vale With hospitable ray. " For here forlorn and lost I tread, With fainting steps and alow... | |
 | Charles Johnston, Peter Johnston - Indian captivities - 1827 - 276 pages
...those beautiful lines from Goldsmith's Hermit, which were precisely adapted to my present condition : For here forlorn and lost I tread, With fainting steps, and slow, Where wilds, immeasurably spread, Seem length'ning as I go. But in addition to all these miseries, there was another source of painful apprehension,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1827 - 270 pages
...plot or connexion ; a string of epithets that improve the sound without carrying on A BALLAD. : TURN, gentle hermit of the dale, ' And guide my lonely way ' To where yon taper cheers the valj, ' With hospitable ray. ' For here forlorn and lost I tread, ' With fainting steps and slow ;... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Abduction - 1828 - 232 pages
...whatever be its other defects, is, I think, at least free from those I have mentioned." A BALLAD. " TURN, gentle hermit of the dale, And guide my lonely way,...the dangerous gloom ; For yonder faithless phantom flies To lure thee to thy doom. " Here to the houseless child of want, My door is open still ; And... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1828 - 358 pages
...lonely way, . , To where yon taper 30 cheers the vale With hospitable ray. t^i.; .,-,-, t . . « _,_., »For here forlorn and lost I tread, . .With fainting steps and slow 3 7 ; - , .Where wilds , immeasurably spread , . ' Seem length'ning as I go 38.« . f ( » Forbear,... | |
 | John Docwra Parry - Ballads, English - 1829 - 460 pages
...poem, several little fragments of old ballads, now lost, contained in the plays of Shakspeare. " TURN, gentle Hermit of the dale, And guide my lonely way,...the dangerous gloom ! For yonder faithless phantom • flies To lure thee to thy doom. THE HERMIT. " Here to the houseless child of want My door is open... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Abduction - 1900 - 350 pages
...whatever be its other defects, is, I think, at least free from those I have mentioned." A BALLAD "TURN, gentle Hermit of the dale, And guide my lonely way...Where wilds, immeasurably spread, Seem lengthening as.I go." " Forbear, my son," the Hermit cries, " To tempt the dangerous gloom; For yonder faithless... | |
 | Edward Arber - English poetry - 1900 - 482 pages
...ARY AND INDEX 299 3°4 THE GOLDSMITH ANTHOLOGY. 1745-1774 AD EDWIN AND ANGELINA. [THE HERMIT] ' TURN, gentle Hermit of the dale! And guide my lonely way...fainting steps and slow, Where wilds immeasurably spreadj Seem lengthening as I go ! ' / my son ! ' the Hermit cru *To toapt the dangerous gloom ! •r... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Clergy - 1900 - 230 pages
...be its other defects, is, I think, at least free from those I have mentioned." ' A BALLAD. " TURN, gentle Hermit of the dale, And guide my lonely way,...where yon taper cheers the vale With hospitable ray. 1 John Gay (1685-1738) was one of the • The following ballad does really have lighter poets of the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Abduction - 1900 - 262 pages
...whatever be its other defects, is, I think, at least free from those I have mentioned." A BALLAD " TURN, gentle Hermit of the dale, And guide my lonely way To where yon taper cheers the vale 50 With hospitable ray. " For here, forlorn and lost, I tread, With fainting steps and slow — Where... | |
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TURN, gentle hermit of the dale, And guide my lonely way, To where yon taper cheers the vale, With hospitable ray. " For here forlorn and lost I tread, With fainting steps and slow; Where wilds immeasurably spread Seem lengthening as I go." " Forbear,... 
