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 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1881 - Počet stránok 780
...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...There will come a time, when this temporary solitude maybe made continual, and the city itself, like its inhabitants, fade away, and leave a desert in its... | |
 | William Black - 1883 - Počet stránok 268
...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...What cities, as great as this, have once triumphed in V v existence, had their victories as great, joy as just and as unbounded ; and, with short-sighted... | |
 | James Baldwin - 1883 - Počet stránok 612
...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...vanity. There will come a time when this temporary solitnde may be made continual, and the city itself, like its inhabitants, fade away and leave a desert... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1885 - Počet stránok 494
...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...its room. What cities, as great as this, have once trmmph'd in existence ; had their victories as great as ours ; joy as just, and as unbounded as we... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1884 - Počet stránok 554
...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...its room. What cities, as great as this, have once triumph'd in existence ; had their victories as great as ours ; joy as just, and as unbounded as we... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1884 - Počet stránok 784
...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...There will come a. time, when this temporary solitude maybe made continual, and the city itself, like its inhabitants, fade away, and leave a desert in its... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1885 - Počet stránok 520
...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...its room. What cities, as great as this, have once triumph'd in existence ; had their victories as great as ours ; joy as just, and as unbounded as we... | |
 | Robert Cochrane - 1887 - Počet stránok 572
...feebly emits a yellow gleam ; no sound is heard but of the chiming clock, or the distent watch-dog. All ne tin; city itself, like its inhabitants, fade away, and leave a desert in its room. What cities, as... | |
 | 1893 - Počet stránok 386
...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 l1e made continual, and the city itself, like its inhabitants, fade away, and leave a desert in its... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1893 - Počet stránok 780
...feebly emits a yellow gleam ; no sound is heard but of the chiming clock, or the distant watch-dog. All urn " Here," he cries, " stood their citadel, now grown over with weeds ; there their senate-house, but... | |
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