 Around my fire an evening group to draw, And tell of all I felt and all I saw; And as a hare whom hounds and horns pursue, Pants to the place from whence at first she flew, I still had hopes, my long vexations past, 95 Here to return, and die at home...  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 3181927Full view - About this book
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1854 - 306 pages
...evening group to draw, And tell of all I felt and all I saw ; And, as a hare, whom hounds and horns pursue, Pants to the place from whence at first she flew— I still hjid hopes — my long vexations past, Here to return, and die at home at last. O blest retirement,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1855 - 582 pages
...and all I saw ; And as a hare, whom hounds and horns pursue, Pants to the place from whence at tirst she flew, I still had hopes, my long vexations past, Here to return and die at homo at last. O blest retirement, friend to life's decline, Retreat from cares, that never must be... | |
 | 1856 - 754 pages
...evening group to draw, And tell of all I felt, of all I saw ; Aud an a hare, when hounds and horns pursue, Pants to the place from whence at first she flew, I still had hopes, my long vexations put, Here to return — and die at home at Uut. The " Deserted Village " resembles in its style the... | |
 | Joseph William Jenks - English poetry - 1856 - 574 pages
...evening group to draw, And tell of all I felt, and all 1 saw ; And, as a haro whom hounds and horns ? tZG<iY ( i &>Tbk[ t g.-+ V ; 4/ 8b. $`CD bad hopes, my long vexations past, Here to return — and die at home at last. RURAL POETRY. — GOLDSMITH.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1857 - 304 pages
...evening group to draw, And tell of all I felt, and all I saw ; And as an hare, whom hounds and horns pursue, Pants to the place from whence at first she flew, I still had hopes, my long vexations pass'd, Here to return — and die at home at last. 0 bless'd retirement, friend to life's decline,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1857 - 560 pages
...evening group to draw, And tell of all I felt and all I saw ; And as a hare, whom hounds and horns pursue, Pants to the place from whence at first she flew, I still had hopes, niy long vexations past, Here to return and die at home at last tO. blest retirement, friend to life's... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1858 - 336 pages
...ev'ning group to draw, And tell of all I felt and all I saw ; And as a hare, whom hounds and horns pursue, Pants to the place from whence at first she flew, I slfll had hopes, my long vexations past, Here to return — and die at home at last. Oh bless'd retirement... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 466 pages
...applicable to him at this time : — " And as an hare, whom hounds and horns pursue, Pants to the goal, from whence at first she flew, I still had hopes— my long vexations past — llere to return, and die (at home) at last." Another of these symptoms of melancholy foreboding,... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1860 - 576 pages
...shadow of his native hills, and the crowning of all his hopes is his return to the old country. i " I still had hopes, my long vexations past, Here to return and dwell at home at last." VOL. XLVII.—No. XCIII. I The exile wandering in the arid plains of Africa,... | |
 | Fifty celebrated men - Biography - 1862 - 354 pages
...evening group to draw, And tell of all I felt, and all I saw ; And as the hare, whom hounds and horse pursue, Pants to the place from whence at first she flew; I still had hopes — -my long vexation past — Here to return, and die at home at last." Goldsmith died — sincerely mourned —... | |
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