 | General reader - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1827 - 246 pages
...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; And, as a hare,...last. O, blest 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... | |
 | English poetry - 1828 - 814 pages
...still, Amidst the swains to shew my book-learned 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 horn pursue, Pants to the place from whence at first he flew., I still had hopes, my long vexations... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1830 - 544 pages
...still, Amidst the swains to show my book-learn'd skill, Around my fire an evening group to draw, And g to apprehend from the ambition of men whom they...riches but freedom, were contented to traffic with ! still had hopes, my long vexations past, riere to return — and die at home at last. О blest retirement,... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - English poetry - 1830 - 256 pages
...still— Amidst the swains 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,...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 lust. 0... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton - 1830 - 230 pages
...realized. CHAPTER XVI. O Furtitiia, viris invida fortibns Quani non aequa bonis pramia dividis. SENECA. And as a hare, whom hounds and horns pursue. Pants to the place from whence at first he flew. ***** Heie, to the houseless child of want, My door is open still. GOLDsMITH. SLOWLY, for Lucy, waned... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...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, 1 still had hopes, my long vexations past, Here to return — and die at home at last. Oblc-t retirement,... | |
 | Alexander Balfour - 1830 - 398 pages
...had hopes, my latest hours to crown, Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down : And, as a hare, when 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 !" An... | |
 | James Hardiman - Ballads, Irish - 1831 - 488 pages
...Goldsmith*: — In all my wand'rings round this world of care, In all my grief (and God has given my share,) I still had hopes, my long vexations past, Here to return, and die at home at last. * Oliver Goldsmith was born, and until his fifteenth year resided, not far from where Carolan spent... | |
 | James Hardiman - English poetry - 1831 - 484 pages
...Goldsmith*: — In all my wand'rings round this world of care, In all my grief (and God has given my share.) I still had hopes, my long vexations past, Here to return, and die at home at last. • Oliver Goldsmith was born, and until his fifteenth year resided, not far from where Carolan spent... | |
 | Lutheran Church - 1831 - 308 pages
...On dying at home* Icindred. Thus says Goldsmith in liis poem of the Traveller: *' I still had hope my long vexations past, Here to return and die at home at last." .And Pope in his Elegy to the memory of an unfortunate V'oung Lady, thus feelingly speaks of her death... | |
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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... 
