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way (adj.)

Hope, like the gleaming taper's light,

Adorns and cheers our way;

And still, as darker grows the night,

Emits a brighter ray.

Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774): The Captivity. Act ii.

I see my way as birds their trackless way.

I shall arrive,—what time, what circuit first,

I ask not; but unless God send his hail

Or blinding fire-balls, sleet or stifling snow,

In some time, his good time, I shall arrive:

He guides me and the bird. In his good time.

Robert Browning (1812-1890): Paracelsus. Part i.

But how carve way i' the life that lies before,

If bent on groaning ever for the past?

Robert Browning (1812-1890): Balaustion's Adventure.

Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on,

Through words and things, a dim and perilous way.

William Wordsworth (1770-1850): The Borderers. Act iv. Sc. 2.

The intellectual power, through words and things,

Went sounding on a dim and perilous way!

William Wordsworth (1770-1850): The Excursion. Book iii.

The eftest way.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Much Ado about Nothing. Act iv. Sc. 2.

Her face is like the milky way i' the sky,—

A meeting of gentle lights without a name.

Sir John Suckling (1609-1641): Brennoralt. Act iii.

Then with no throbs of fiery pain,

No cold gradations of decay,

Death broke at once the vital chain,

And freed his soul the nearest way.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784): Verses on the Death of Mr. Robert Levet. Stanza 9.

'T is beauty calls, and glory shows the way.

Nathaniel Lee (1655-1692): Alexander the Great. Act iv. Sc. 2.

'T is beauty calls, and glory shows the way.

Nathaniel Lee (1655-1692): Alexander the Great. Act iv. Sc. 2.

God moves in a mysterious way

His wonders to perform;

He plants his footsteps in the sea

And rides upon the storm.

William Cowper (1731-1800): Light shining out of Darkness.

Turn, gentle Hermit of the Dale,

And guide my lonely way

To where yon taper cheers the vale

With hospitable ray.

Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774): The Hermit. Chap. viii. Stanza 1.

I walk unseen

On the dry smooth-shaven green,

To behold the wandering moon

Riding near her highest noon,

Like one that had been led astray

Through the heav'n's wide pathless way;

And oft, as if her head she bow'd,

Stooping through a fleecy cloud.

John Milton (1608-1674): Il Penseroso. Line 65.

The next way home's the farthest way about.

Robert Herrick (1591-1674): Emblems. Book iv. Emblem 2, Ep. 2.

The longest way round is the shortest way home.—Bohn: Foreign Proverbs (Italian).

The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,

The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea,

The ploughman homeward plods his weary way,

And leaves the world to darkness and to me.

Thomas Gray (1716-1771): Elegy in a Country Churchyard. Stanza 1.

I am going a long way

With these thou seëst—if indeed I go

(For all my mind is clouded with a doubt)—

To the island-valley of Avilion,

Where falls not hail or rain or any snow,

Nor ever wind blows loudly; but it lies

Deep-meadow'd, happy, fair with orchard lawns

And bowery hollows crown'd with summer sea,

Where I will heal me of my grievous wound.

Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892): The Passing of Arthur.

Thou say'st an undisputed thing

In such a solemn way.

Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894): To an Insect.

Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts.

Old Testament: Isaiah lv. 7.

Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour:

England hath need of thee!

. . . . .

Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart:

So didst thou travel on life's common way

In cheerful godliness.

William Wordsworth (1770-1850): London, 1802.

There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets.

Old Testament: Proverbs xxvi. 13.

Long is the way

And hard, that out of hell leads up to light.

John Milton (1608-1674): Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 432.

The longest way round is the shortest way home.—Bohn: Foreign Proverbs (Italian).

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