| Oliver Goldsmith - 1847 - 558 pages
...to lay me down; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose, m money. book-leam'd skill, Around my fire an evening group to draw, And tell of all I felt, and all I saw;... | |
| John Forster - Authors, English - 1848 - 1294 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-leam'd skill ; Around my fire an evening group to draw, And tell of all I felt, and all 1 saw... | |
| Joachim Fernau - 1848 - 736 pages
...hours to crown, Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down ; To husband out life's taper at the elose, And keep the flame from wasting, by repose. I still...pride attends us still, Amidst the swains to show my book-leam'd skill : Around my fire an evening group to draw, And tell of all I felt, and all 1 saw... | |
| John Forster - Authors, English - 1848 - 734 pages
...by repose. I still had hopes, for pride attends us still, Amidst the swains to show my book-learu'd skill ; Around my fire an evening group to draw, And tell of all 1 felt, and all l saw ; And, as a hare, whom hounds and horn* pursue, Pants to the place from whence... | |
| Edwin Hubbell Chapin - Didactic literature, American - 1848 - 234 pages
...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 from wasting by repose ; 174 DUTIES OF YOUNG WOMEN. ***** Around my fire an evening group to draw, And tell of all I felt... | |
| Richard Green Parker - Elocution - 1849 - 466 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 from wasting by repose ; 35 I still had hopes, — for pride attends us still, — Amid the swains to show my book-learned... | |
| George Croly - English poetry - 1850 - 442 pages
...past to pain. In all my wanderings round this world of care, In all my griefs — and God has given my share — I still had hopes, my latest hours to...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... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1850 - 554 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... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1850 - 566 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... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1850 - 558 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 I still had hopes, for pride attends us still, Amidst the swains to show my book-learn'd skill,... | |
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