 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 656 ページ
...To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting, by repose : I still bad hopes, for pride attends us still, Amidst the swains to show my book-learn'd skill, Around my lire an ev'ning group to draw. And tell of all I felt, and all 1 saw... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1812 - 470 ページ
...by repose : I still had hopes, for pride attends us still, Amidst the swains to show my book-learn'd skill, Around my fire an evening group to draw, And...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,... | |
 | John Bernard Trotter - 1812 - 348 ページ
...insupportably harassing, and I have ever had in mind those lines, as very 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,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1813 - 124 ページ
...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 shew my book-learn'd skill. Around my fire an evening group to draw, And tell of all I felt, and all... | |
 | Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 ページ
...me down; My anxious day to husband near the close, And keep life's flame from wasting by repose ; 1 still had hopes, for pride attends us still, Amidst the swains to show my book-learn'd skill, Around my fire an ev'ning group to draw, And tell of alt 1 felt, and all 1 saw... | |
 | 1814 - 310 ページ
...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 shew my book-learn'd skill, Around my fire an evening group to draw, And tell of all I felt, and all... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1816 - 298 ページ
...: 1 ftill had hopes, for pride attends us ftill, Amidft the fwains to fltoxv my book-learn'd fktll: Around my fire an evening group to draw, And tell of all I felt, and all I faw : And as a hare, whom hounds and horns purfue, Pants to the place from whence at firft he flew,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1816 - 240 ページ
...bow'rs 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 skill, Around my fire an ev'ning group to draw, And tell of all I felt, and all I saw... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1817 - 192 ページ
...bow'rs 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 skill, Around my fire an ev'ning group to draw, And tell of all I felt, and all I saw... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 294 ページ
...bowers to lay me down ; To hushand my anxioua day near the close, And keep life's flame from wasting by repose : I still had hopes, for pride attends us still, Amidst the swains to show my book-learn'd skill ; Around my fire an evening group to draw, And tell of aH I felt, and all I saw... | |
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In all my wanderings round this world of care, In all my griefs - 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... 
