despair,

But alas! for the hopes that were doomed to despair,

The Humble Art of the Victorian Period 2009

But alas! for the hopes that were doomed to despair,

Archive 2009-02-01 2009

The forest having become an echo chamber of his social despair,

National Demons: Robert Burns, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and the Folk in the Forest 2006

And look with pity on my state, and clear my dark despair,

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Thus beset on all hands, and in a manner reduced to despair,

The Bride of Lammermoor 2008

I could have screamed, in the supremeness of my fear; and then, in the very moment of my extremity and despair,

The House on the Borderland 2007

But still it was at once a reproach and a pardon, a hope and a despair,

Le Colonel Chabert 2007

But still it was at once a reproach and a pardon, a hope and a despair,

Le Colonel Chabert 2007

Few people have put this better than Mahatma Gandhi: When I despair,

The Nobel Peace Prize 2004 2004

Our train did not pass very near, but the distance was not bad for them; it kept them sixty or sixty-five years back in the past where they belonged, and in its dimness I could the more distinctly see Don Quixote careering against them, and Sancho Panza vainly warning, vainly imploring him, and then in his rage and despair,

Familiar Spanish Travels 2004