| Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 322 pages
...I still had hopes my latest hours to crown, Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down ; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame...us still, Amidst the swains to show my book-learn'd skilLD2 Around my fire an evening group to draw, And tell of all I felt, and all I saw ; And as a have,... | |
| British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...I still had hopes my latest hours to crown, Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down ; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame...hopes— for pride attends us still, Amidst the swains to shew my book-Iearn'd skill, Around my fire an evening group to draw, And tell of all I felt, and all... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 102 pages
...repofe : I ftill had hopes, for pride attends us ftill, Amidft the fwains to fhew my book-learn'd fkill, Around my fire an evening group to draw, And tell of all I felt, and all 1 faw; And, as an hare whom hounds and horns purfue, Pants to the place from whence at firft he ftew,... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...I slift had hopes, my latest hours to crown, Amidst these numblc bow'rs to lay me down ; To husband h icy hand : And slow consuming age. To each his MifF'rings : my repose: I still had hopes, for pride attends us still, Amidst the swains to show my book-learn'd... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 648 pages
...Where once the cottage stood, the hawthorn grew, Remembrance wakes with all her hmv train. To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame...us still, Amidst the swains to show my book-learn'd ski 1 1, Around my fire an ev'ning group to draw, And tell of all 1 felt, and all I saw ; And, as a... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1810 - 436 pages
...still had hopes, my latest honrs to crown, Amidst these hnmble bowers to lay me down ; To hnsband ont life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from...wasting by repose: I still had hopes, for pride attends ns still, Amidst the swains to show my book-learn'd skill ; Aronnd my fire an evening gronp to draw,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 656 pages
...— I still had hopes my latest hours to crown, Amidst these humble bow'rs to lay me down; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting, by repose : I still bad hopes, for pride attends us still, Amidst the swains to show my book-learn'd skill, Around my lire... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1813 - 124 pages
...share..I still had hopes my latest hours to crown, Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down ; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame...hopes, for pride attends us still, Amidst the swains to shew my book-learn'd skill. Around my fire an evening group to draw, And tell of all I felt, and all... | |
| English poetry - 1814 - 310 pages
...I still had hopes my latest hours to crown, Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down ; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame...hopes, for pride attends us still, Amidst the swains to shew my book-learn'd skill, Around my fire an evening group to draw, And tell of all I felt, and all... | |
| Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 pages
...me down; My anxious day to husband near the close, And keep life's flame from wasting by repose ; 1 still had hopes, for pride attends us still, Amidst...swains to show my book-learn'd skill, Around my fire an ev'ning group to draw, And tell of alt 1 felt, and all 1 saw : And, as a hare whom hounds and horns... | |
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