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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; I still had hopes — for pride attends us still — Amidst the swains to show my... "
The Prose and Poetry of Europe and America: Consisting of Literary Gems and ... - Page 314
1845 - 600 pages
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The Poems of Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1800 - 192 pages
...book-learn'd skill ; Around my fire an ev'ning 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...last. O blest retirement, friend to life's decline, Retreats from care, that never must be mine, How blest is he who crowns in shades like these A youth...
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The Beauties of the Poets:: Being a Collection of Moral and Sacred Poetry ...

English poetry - 1800 - 322 pages
...share I still had hopes, my latest hours to crown j , Amidst these humble bowers to.-.kv, me. down; I still had hopes, my long vexations past, Here to...last. O blest retirement, friend to life's decline, Retreats from care, that never must be mine! How blest is he who crowns in shades like these, A youth...
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The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M. B.: With an Account of His Life ...

Oliver Goldsmith - 1803 - 192 pages
...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 hopes, my long vexations past, Here...last. O blest retirement, friend to life's decline, Retreats from care, that never must be mine, How blest is he who crowns in shades like these, A youth...
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Poems by Goldsmith and Parnell

Oliver Goldsmith - 1804 - 114 pages
...book-learn'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...first she flew, I still had hopes, my long vexations pass'd, Here to return — and die at home at last. O bless'd retirement, friend to life's decline,...
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The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of His Life ...

Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1805 - 264 pages
...to show my book-learn'd skill, Around my fire an ev'ning group to draw, And tell of all I felt, and all I saw ; And, as a hare, whom hounds and horns...last. O blest retirement, friend to life's decline, Retreats from care, that never must be mine, How blest is he who crowns, in shades like these, A youth...
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The Beauties of the Poets: Being a Collection of Moral and Sacred Poetry

Poetry - 1806 - 330 pages
...giv'n my share I still had hopes, my latest hours to crown; Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down ; I still had hopes, my long vexations past, Here to...last. O blest retirement, friend to life's decline, Retreats from care, that never must be mine ! How blest is he who crowns in shades like these, A youth...
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Poetical Works

Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pages
...hounds and horns pursue, Pants to the place from whence at first he flew, I still had hopes, my loug vexations past, Here to return— and die at home...last. O blest retirement ! friend to life's decline, Retreats from care, that never must be mine ; How blest is he who crowns in shades like these, A youth...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, Volume 2

Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 322 pages
...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, my long vexations past, Here...retirement, friend to life's decline, Retreat from care, that never must be mine, How blest is he who crowns in shades like these, A youth of labor with...
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Elegant Extracts, Volumes 1-2

Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...all I saw ; And, ns a hare, whom hounds and horns pursue, Pants to the place from whence at first he lame Sat hov'ring. pinch'd with age and frost ; Her...knees her weight sustains, VVhiJe palsy shook her care, th:it never must be mine ! How blest.is he, who crowns, in shades like these, A \outh of labor...
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The muses' bower, embellished with the beauties of English poetry, Volume 3

English poetry - English poetry - 1809 - 308 pages
...to show 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 hare whom hounds and horns pursue, Pants to the place from whence at first he flew, I still had hopes, my long vexations past, Here to return—and die at home at last. O blest...
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