 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 500 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 524 pages
...lay me down; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose : s I still had hopes, for pride attends us still, Amidst...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... | |
 | Edwin Hubbell Chapin - Sermons, American - 1854 - 270 pages
...griefe — and God has giv'n my share, I still had hopes my latest hours to crown, Amidst these humble bow'rs to lay me down ; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose. ***** tie Around my fire an ev'ning group to draw, And tell of all I felt, and all I saw... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 364 pages
...God has given ray share — 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 snew my book-lcarn'd... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, William Collins, George Gilfillan, Thomas Warton - English literature - 1854 - 354 pages
...bowers to lay me dowu ; 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 book-learn'd skill/ 90 Around my fire an evening group to draw, And tell of all I felt, and all I saw ; And, as a hare,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1854 - 306 pages
...and God has given my share, 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 book-learned... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 524 pages
...griefs—and God lias given my share— 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 book-learn'd... | |
 | William Spalding - English literature - 1854 - 446 pages
...and God has given my share— I still had hopes my latest years 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 book-learned... | |
 | John Forster - 1854 - 578 pages
...God has given my share — 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 book-learned... | |
 | William Collins - English poetry - 1854 - 430 pages
...and God has given my share — 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 book-learned... | |
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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. 
