 | Biography - 1852 - 372 pages
...of all !! felt, of all I saw ; And as a hare, when hounds and horns pursue, Pants to the place rom whence at first she flew, I still had hopes, my long...vexations past, Here to return — and die at home at latt. The " Deserted Village " resembles in its style the "Traveller ;" but, as Campbell remarks, "... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English literature - 1852 - 460 pages
...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 home) at last." Another of these symptoms of melancholy foreboding, I thought, was shown in his manner at Holland House.... | |
 | State Bar Association of Wisconsin - Bar associations - 1923 - 546 pages
...whom hounds and horns pursue Pants to the place from whence at first it flew, (Nor with the desire) my long vexations past Here to return and die at home at last" — for I was never harried by either hounds or horns more than I deserved, probably less, and I have... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Literary Collections - 1969 - 284 pages
...competent old age in his native Stratford. Goldsmith, an Irishman, understood it— 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. We must understand this habitual working of Shakespeare's mind,- or our most painstaking studies are... | |
 | Raymond Williams - Literary Criticism - 1975 - 356 pages
...spurn imploring famine from the gate. It is not only the frustration of that understandable hope — my long vexations past, Here to return — and die at home at last. It is that the social forces which are dispossessing the village are seen as simultaneously dispossessing... | |
 | G. S. Rousseau - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 420 pages
...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...vexations past. Here to return, and die at home at last. . .l In these verses, I need not say with what melody, with what touching truth, with what exquisite... | |
 | Nahdjla Carasco Bailey - Education - 2014 - 132 pages
...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 she...vexations past, Here to return - and die at home at last. OLIVER GOLDSMITH 1 Which line tells us that the poet's life had been an unhappy one? (A) line 11 (C)... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 2007 - 298 pages
...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...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... 
