 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 656 pages
...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 blest retirement, friend to life's decline, Retreats from care, that never must be mine, How blest... | |
 | John Bernard Trotter - Great Britain - 1811 - 598 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 —...long vexations past, . .... Here to return, and die ac last." Another of those symptoms of melancholy foreboding, I thought, was shewn in his manner at... | |
 | John Bernard Trotter - Great Britain - 1812 - 348 pages
...applicable to him at this 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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1812 - 470 pages
...saw ; And, as a hare whom hounds and horns 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, friend to life's decline, jLetreats from care, that never must be mine, How blest... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1813 - 124 pages
...all I saw ; And as a hare whom hounds and horns persue, 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 retirement, friend to life's decline, Retreats from care, that never must be mine, How blest... | |
 | English poetry - 1814 - 310 pages
...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...past, Here to return — and die at home at last. O blest retirement, friend to life's decline, Retreat from care that never must be mine ! How blest... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1816 - 240 pages
...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 pursue, Pants to the place from whence...past, Here to return — and die at home at last. O blest retirement, friend to life's decline, Retreats from care, that never must be mine, How blest... | |
 | American periodicals - 1830 - 504 pages
...pursue, Pants to the place from whence at hrst she flew, I still had hopes, my long vexations past, Bere to return, and die at home at last ! An apology might...quoting lines so generally known, and, I hope, felt; but, as the eye can tum again and again to look on a fine painting, and the ear listen with delight... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 294 pages
...And, as a hare whom hounds and horns pursue, Pants to the place from whence at first she flew, B» 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> Retreat from cares, that never must he mine. How blest... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Book ornamentation - 1817 - 192 pages
...saw ; And, as a hare, whom hounds and horns pursue. Pants to the place from whence at first she Sew, 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, that never must be mine, How blest... | |
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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, whom hounds and horns pursue, Pants to the place from whence at first she flew — I still had hopes — my... 
