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" Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose. "
The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine - Page 62
1863
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The Poetical Works, Complete, of Oliver Goldsmith ... with Some Account of ...

Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1816 - 240 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...swains to show my book-learn'd skill, Around my fire an ev'ning group to draw, And tell of all I felt, and all I saw ; And, as a hare, whom hounds and horns...
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Sequel to the English Reader, Or Elegant Selections in Prose and Poetry ...

Lindley Murray - Authors - 1816 - 298 pages
...: 1 ftill had hopes, for pride attends us ftill, Amidft the fwains to fltoxv my book-learn'd fktll: Around my fire an evening group to draw, And tell of all I felt, and all I faw : And as a hare, whom hounds and horns purfue, Pants to the place from whence at firft he flew,...
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The Traveller, The Deserted Village, and Other Poems ...

Oliver Goldsmith - Book ornamentation - 1817 - 192 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...swains to show my book-learn'd skill, Around my fire an ev'ning group to draw, And tell of all I felt, and all I saw ; And, as a hare, whom hounds and horns...
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The Poetical Works, and Essays, of Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 294 pages
...Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down ; To hushand my anxioua day near the close, And keep life's flame from wasting by repose : I still had hopes,...Around my fire an evening group to draw, And tell of aH I felt, and all I saw : And, as a hare whom hounds and horns pursue, Pants to the place from whence...
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The poems and plays of Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 274 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 from wasting, by repose: J still had hopes—for pride attends us still— Amidst the swains to show my book-learned skill;...
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The Deserted Village, Traveller, and Miscellaneous Poems

Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1819 - 120 pages
...still had hopes, my latest hours to crown, Amidst these huir.ble bowers to lay me down ; To husband out life's taper at the close. And keep the flame...had hopes, for pride attends us still, Amidst the swain? to show my book-l^arn'd skill; Around my fire an .evening group to draw, Aad tell of nil 1 felt,...
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Miscellaneous poems. Dramatic poems

Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1820 - 488 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...
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Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical ..., Volume 9

John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 314 pages
...share—- I still had hopes my latesf 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...swains to show my book-learn'd skill, Around my fire an ev'ning group to draw, And tell of all I felt, and all I saw; And, as a hare, whom hounds and horns...
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Poems

Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 236 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...pride attends us still, Amidst the swains to show my book-learned skill, Around my fire an evening group to draw, And tell of all I felt, and all I saw;...
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The Works of the British Poets: With Lives of the Authors, Volume 30

Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - English poetry - 1822 - 428 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 sjdll, 02 Around my fire an evening group to draw, And tell of all 1 felt, and all I saw ; And, as...
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