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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... "
The Poetical Works of Campbell, Goldsmith, and Gray: With Memoirs of the Authors - Page 288
by Thomas Campbell - 1870 - 445 pages
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The Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: With a Life and Notes, Volume 4

Oliver Goldsmith - 1835 - 362 pages
...still had hopes — 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 I saw; And, as a bare, whom hounds and horns pursue, Pants to the place from whence at first she flew, I still had hopes,...
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The Life of William Cobbett

William Cobbett - Authors, English - 1835 - 230 pages
...Year's Residence," shows its head a few miles "'"to the west, and close to Farnham; — "And, as the hare, whom hounds and horns pursue, Pants to the place from whence at first he flew," he wrote of it and spoke of it as his resting-place from the vexations and the bustle of his active...
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The Life of William Cobbett

William Cobbett - Authors - 1835 - 524 pages
...Year's Residence," shows its head a few miles to the west, and close to Farnham ; — " And, as the hare, whom hounds and horns pursue, Pants to the place from whence at first he flew," he wrote of it and spoke of it as his restingplace from the vexations and the bustle of his active...
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The Life of William Cobbett

William Cobbett - Authors, English - 1835 - 236 pages
...Year's Residence," shows its head a few miles to the west, and close to Farnham; — "And, as the bare, whom hounds and horns pursue, Pants to the place from whence at first he flew," 4 he wrote of it and spoke of it as his resting-place from the vexations and the bustle of his active...
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The miscellaneous works of Oliver Goldsmith, with an account of ..., Volume 2

Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 472 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,...
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The Church of England quarterly review, Volume 1

1837 - 646 pages
...to show my 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,...past, Here to return — and die at home at last." The Deserted Village is founded upon the following incident as related by Mr. Prior : — General Napier,...
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Impressions at home and abroad; or, A year of real life

James Roderick O'Flanagan - 1837 - 716 pages
...to Cork, and started for that " one dear spot in memory's waste," — home! —There, " Around ray fire an evening group to draw, And tell of all I felt, and all I saw." FINIS. FRINTF.U BY STtWART AND CO. OLD BULEY. ...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of His Life and ...

Oliver Goldsmith - 1838 - 544 pages
...he had ever looked forward to this beloved spot, as the haven of repose for the evening of his days. rd our pursuit. Only let us try for them, and they will certainly be ours ; and fiisi he flew, 1 «ill had hopes, my long vexations past, Here to return, and die at home at last....
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Royston Gower, Or The Days of King John

Thomas Miller - Great Britain - 1838 - 894 pages
...still had hopes, my latest hours to crown, Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down : **•*•• 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 : Here to return — and die at home at last. GOLDSMITH'S...
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The Quarterly Christian Spectator

Theology - 1838 - 808 pages
...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...
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