...hope relies ; And ev'ry pang that rends the heart, Bids expectation rise. Hope, like the glimm'ring taper's light, Adorns and cheers the way; And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray. PROLOGUE, WRITTEN AND SPOKEN BY THE POET LABERIUS, A ROMAN KNIGHT, WHOM C^SAR FORCED UPON THE STAGE....

...hope relies; And every pang, that rends the heart* Bids expectation rise. Hope, like the glimm'ring taper's light, Adorns and cheers the way ; And still,...darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray. SONG. ^"\ Memory ! thou fond deceiver, ^-* Still importunate and vain, To former joys, recurring ever, And...

...hope relies; And ev'ry pang that rends the heart, Bids expectation rise, Hope, like the glimin'ring taper's light, Adorns and cheers the way, And still,...! thou fond deceiver, Still importunate and vain, "o former joys recurring ever, And turning all the patt to pain ; Tiou, like the world, th' opprest...

...XXXVIII. SONG. GOLDSMITH. THE wretch, condemned with' life to part, Still, still on hope relies; And every pang that rends the heart, Bids expectation rise....Hope, like the glimmering taper's light, Adorns and chears the way; And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray, XXXIX. SONG. GOLDSMITH....

...hope relies ; And ev'ry pang that rends the heart, Bids expectation rise. Hope, like the glimm'ring taper's light, Adorns and cheers the way : And still, as darker grows the night, .Emits a hrighter ray. SONG. ^ O MEMORY, thon fond deceiver, Still importnnate and vain, To former joys, recnrring...

...slighted, shunned, but acknowledged, adored. Thus, "• Hope, like the glimmering taper's light, * AJoms and cheers the way; And still, as darker grows the night,.' Emits a brighter ray." ' But suddenly her .delirium ceased ; suddenly, like the dissolving visions of a blissful dream, it...

...shalt reign bulow. 1 HE wretch condenin'd with life to part Still, still on hope relies; And every pung that rends the heart Bids expectation rise. Hope, like the glimmering taper's light, Illumes and cheers the way, And still as darker grows the night Emits a brighter ray. GOLDSMITH. O...

...BY D K. GOLDSMITH.* THE wretch condemn'd with life to part, Still, still on hope relies ; And every pang that rends the heart, Bids expectation rise....glimmering taper's light, Adorns and cheers the way 5 And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray. SONG XXXIX. BY THE SAME. O MEMORY ! thou...

...and cheers the way ; Aijd still, as darker grows the night, '-'-. Smits a brighter ray. SONS. ; . & MEMORY ! thou fond deceiver, Still importunate and vain, To former joys recurring ever, And turnipg all the past to pain ; Thou, like the world, the opprest oppressing, Thy smiles increase the...

...hope relies; And ev'ry pang that tends the heart. Bids expectation rise. Hope, like the glimm'ring taper's light, Adorns and cheers the way : And still,...darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray. SONG. Q MEMORY, thon fond deceiver, Still importunate and vain. To former joys, recurring ever, And turning...