 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1800 - 192 sidor
...book-learn'd skill ; Around my fire an ev'ning 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...die at home at last. O blest retirement, friend to life's decline, Retreats from care, that never must be mine, How blest is he who crowns in shades like... | |
 | 1800 - 322 sidor
...share I still had hopes, my latest hours to crown j , Amidst these humble bowers to.-.kv, me. down; I still had hopes, my long vexations past, Here to...die at home at last. O blest retirement, friend to life's decline, Retreats from care, that never must be mine! How blest is he who crowns in shades like... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1803 - 192 sidor
...book-learn'd 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, I still had hopes, my long vexations past, Here to return... .and die at home at last. O blest... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1804 - 114 sidor
...book-learn'd 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...first she flew, I still had hopes, my long vexations pass'd, Here to return — and die at home at last. O bless'd retirement, friend to life's decline,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1805 - 264 sidor
...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 ; And, as a hare, whom hounds...die at home at last. O blest retirement, friend to life's decline, Retreats from care, that never must be mine, How blest is he who crowns, in shades... | |
 | 1806 - 330 sidor
...giv'n my share I still had hopes, my latest hours to crown; Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down ; I still had hopes, my long vexations past, Here to...die at home at last. O blest retirement, friend to life's decline, Retreats from care, that never must be mine ! How blest is he who crowns in shades... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 sidor
...book-learn'd 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, I still had hopes, my loug vexations past, Here to return— and die at home at last. O blest... | |
 | English poetry - 1809 - 308 sidor
...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 whom hounds and...horns pursue, 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... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 sidor
...book-learn'd skill. Around my fire, an evening group to draw, And tell if all I felt, and all I saw ; And, ns iftly flies. he flew, I still had hopes, my long vexations past, Here to return, and die at home at last. O blest... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 sidor
...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, I still had hopes, my long vexations past, Here to return— and die at home at last. For... | |
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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... 
