 | English poetry - English poetry - 1809 - 308 pages
...repose : 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...I still had hopes, my long vexations past, Here to return—and die at home at last. O blest retirement, friend to life's decline, Retreats from care,... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...book-learn'd skill. Around my fire, an evening group to draw, And tell if all I felt, and all I saw ; And, ns a hare, whom hounds and horns pursue, Pants to the...last. O blest retirement, friend to life's decline, Retreat from care, th:it never must be mine ! How blest.is he, who crowns, in shades like these, A... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 322 pages
...: I still had hopes, for pride attends us still, Amidst the swains to show my book-learn'd skilLD2 Around my fire an evening group to draw, And tell of all I felt, and all I saw ; And as a have, whom hounds and horns pursue, Pants to the place from whence at first he flew, I still had hopes,... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...repose: I still had hopes— for pride attends us still, Amidst the swains to shew my book-Iearn'd skill, Around my fire an 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 he flew, I still had... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 102 pages
...repofe : I ftill had hopes, for pride attends us ftill, Amidft the fwains to fhew my book-learn'd fkill, Around my fire an evening group to draw, And tell of all I felt, and all 1 faw; And, as an hare whom hounds and horns purfue, Pants to the place from whence at firft he ftew,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 648 pages
...swains to show my book-learn'd ski 1 1, Around my fire an ev'ning group to draw, And tell of all 1 felt, and all I saw ; And, as a hare, whom hounds...horns pursue, Pants to the place from whence at first she flew, I still had hopes, my long vexations past, Here to return — and die at home at last. O... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 656 pages
...show my book-learn'd skill, Around my lire an ev'ning group to draw. And tell of all I felt, and all 1 saw ; And, as a hare, whom hounds and horns pursue, Pants to the place from whence at first she fie*, I still bad hopes, my long vexations past, Here to return — and die at home at last. O... | |
 | Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 pages
...share I still had hopes my latest hours to crown; Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down; I stilJ had hopes, my long vexations past, Here to return and die at home at last. O bless'd retirement, friend to life's decline, Retreats from care, that never must be mine! How bless'd... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1812 - 470 pages
...repose : 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...pursue^ Pants to the place from whence at first he flew, J still had hopes, my long vexations past, Here to return— and die at home at last, 0 blest retirement,... | |
 | John Bernard Trotter - Great Britain - 1812 - 348 pages
...time c '" And as a hare, whom hounds and horns pursue, Pants to the goal, from whence at first she flew, I still had hopes — my long vexations past, Here to return, and die at last." Another of those symptoms of melancholy foreboding, I thought, was shown in his manner at Holland... | |
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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 : I still had hopes, for pride attends us still, Amidst the swains to show my... 
