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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 of Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 292 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 Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of His Life and ...

Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 548 pages
...— 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: still had hopes, for pride attends us still, Amidst the swains to show my book-lcarn'd skill, Around...
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The Select Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With the Portrait of the Author

Oliver Goldsmith - 1842 - 416 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 rtpose : I still had hopes , for pride attends us still , Amidst the swains to show my book-learn'd...
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The Monthly Review

Books - 1843 - 574 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." While I am upon the subject of places rendered famous by the residence of celebrated poets, I must...
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The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1845 - 276 pages
...— I still had hopes, my latest hours to crown, Amid these humble bowers 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 evening group to draw, And tell...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of His Life and ...

Oliver Goldsmith - 1845 - 550 pages
...lay me down ; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flume from wasting by repose. still had hopes, for pride attends us still. Amidst the swains to show my beok-learn'd skill, Around my fire an evening group to draw, And tell of all I felt, and all I saw;...
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The Reader's Guide: Containing a Notice of the Elementary Sounds in the ...

John Hall - Elocution - 1845 - 354 pages
...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 repos£ : I still had hopes,' (for pride attends us still',) 50 Amidst the swains to show my book-learned...
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The Prose and Poetry of Europe and America: Consisting of Literary Gems and ...

English literature - 1845 - 614 pages
...Amid these humble bowers to lay me down; To husband out lifs's taper at the close, And keep the Hume l avarice shall lie, And scholars, soldiers, kings, unhonored (tie. — Amid the swains to show my book-learned skill, Around my fire an evening group to draw, And tell...
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Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen, Volume 119

Languages, Modern - 1907 - 508 pages
...'milk-white thorn' vgl. Ritter, p. 103, Anm. 2. — Im übrigen verweise ich auf Ritter, 115, und Anm. 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 all I saw....
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Memoir of the Farrar Family

Timothy Farrar - 1847 - 106 pages
...to consume away the life. It enabled him to preserve equanimity, calmness, resignation, " To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose." Becoming a fixed habit, it guarded him almost from the possibility of too great indulgence. It carried...
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