 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,...  Vicar of Wakefield - Page 70by Oliver Goldsmith - 1766Full view - About this book
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 428 pages
...communications of a much more important nature. I am, sin, Yours, &c. OLIVER GOLDSMITH. THE HERMIT. • Tens, 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,... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1823 - 762 pages
...is, I think, at least free from those I have mentioned." THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD. A BALLAD. " Tcnv, air, and the young woman beside me, holding the corner of her handkerchief dipped in vim-g hospitable ray. " For here forlorn and lost I tread, With fainting steps and slow ; Where wilds, immeasurably... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1823 - 764 pages
...on the sense. But, perhaps, madam, while I thus reprehend others, you'll :in onnorA BALLAD. " TUHN, gentle hermit of the dale, And guide my lonely way To where yon taper cheen the vale With hospitable ray. " For here forlorn and lost I tread, With fainting steps and slow... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...Serenely gay, and strict in duty, Jack finds his wife a perfect beauty. 31 THE HERMIT. A BALLAD. 1765. " ple pinions opening to the sun, He rais'd his azure wand and thus begun : Ye sylphs and sylphide, hospitable ray. " For here forlorn and lost I tread, With fainting steps and slow: Where wilds immeasurably... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...with humorous pieces under, those titles in the Public Advertiser. THE HERMIT;* FIHST PRINTED IN 1765. «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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 476 pages
...letter, the reader is desired to consult « The Life of Dr Goldsmith, » under the year 1766. THE HERMIT; A BALLAD. « TURN, gentle Hermit of the dale, And...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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 440 pages
...whatever be its other defects, is, I think, at least free from those I have mentioned. » ' A BALLAD. (i TURN, gentle Hermit of the dale, And guide my lonely way, To where yon taper cheers the vale With hospitable ray. i We have introduced this beautiful poem in this place, because it appears to be too... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 160 pages
...communications of a much more important nature. I am, SIR Yours, &c. OLIVr,R GOLDSMITH. THE HERMIT. •' TORN, 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,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pages
...Serenely gay, and striet in duty, Jaek finds his wife a perfeet beauty. THE HERMIT. A BALLAD. l76S. - , to my 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... | |
 | John Docwra Parry - 1829 - 460 pages
...his 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, 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... | |
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