| Adam Waldie - Literature - 1833 - 640 pages
...still had no|>cs, my latest hours to crown, Amidst these humble bow'rs to lay me down ; To l.usband 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 mv fire an evening group to draw, And tell of all I felt, and all I saw... | |
| Jacob Halls Drew - 1834 - 556 pages
...past, and I shall never attempt it. When I relinquish my present occupation, I intend ' To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting, by repose.' " Alas ! that his opinion, that he should not live to see the accomplishment of the suggested undertaking,... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1835 - 362 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...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... | |
| 1837 - 646 pages
...hours to crown, Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down ; * Essay on the Poetry of Gray. To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame...book-learn'd skill ; Around my fire an evening group to draw, To tell of all I felt, of all I saw. And as a hare, whom hounds and horns pursue, Pants to the place... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 582 pages
...me down ; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose : (2> I still had hopes, for pride attends us still, Amidst the swains to show my book-learn' d skill, Around my fire an evening group to draw, And tell of all I felt, and all I saw... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1837 - 538 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 : (2' I still had hopes, for pride attends us still, Amidst the swains to show my book-learn'd skill,... | |
| Theology - 1838 - 808 pages
...by repose : I still had hopes, for 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 alii saw ; And as a hare whom hounds and horns pursue, Pants to the place from whence at first sne... | |
| Thomas Miller - Country life - 1839 - 390 pages
...still had hopes -" His latest hours to crown, Amid those humble bowers to lay him down. To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose. Around his fire an evening group to draw, And tell of all he felt and all he saw ; And, as a hare,... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1840 - 504 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...attends us still — Amidst the swains to show my book-leani'd skill, Around my fire an evening group to draw. And tell of all I felt, and all I saw.... | |
| English poetry - 1840 - 378 pages
...— I still had hopes my latest hours to crown, Amid these humble bow'rs to lay me down ; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame...repose : I still had hopes, for pride attends us still, Amid the swains to show my book-learn'd skill, Around my fire an ev'ning group to draw, And tell of... | |
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