 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 236 pages
...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 skill, Around my fire an evening group to draw, And tell of all I felt, and all I saw;... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - English poetry - 1822 - 428 pages
...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 sjdll, 02 Around my fire an evening group to draw, And tell of all 1 felt, and all I saw ; And, as... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...lay me down ; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose : ` :/ an hare whom hounds and horns pursue, Pants to the place from whence at first he flew, I still had... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...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 ¡¡>Ш ; Around my fire an evening group to draw. And tell of all I felt, and all I saw:... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1825 - 160 pages
...husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose ; I still had hopes, fur pride attends us still, Amidst the swains to show my book-learn'd skill, Around my fire an ev'ning groupe to draw, And tell of all I felt, and all I saw ; And as a hare, whom bounds and horns... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1825 - 476 pages
...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 evening group to draw, And tell of all I felt, and all I saw... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...me down ; To husband out life's taper at the elose, And keep the flame from wasting by repose : ¡ ieh to madness doth ineline ; Sueh a liquor as no brain That is mortal ea book-leam'd skill, Around my fire an evening group to draw, And tell of all I felt, and all I saw ;... | |
 | Autobiographies - 1830 - 368 pages
...cottage stood, the hawthorn grew, Remembrance wakes with all her busy train, Swells at my breast • I still had hopes, for pride attends us still, Amidst the swains to shew my book-learn'd skill. Yes, let the rich deride, with proud disdain, The simple blessings of the... | |
 | General reader - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1827 - 246 pages
...to lay me down; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting my repose: I still had hopes, for pride attends us still, 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;... | |
 | James Lackington - Booksellers and bookselling - 1827 - 368 pages
...the cottage stood, the hawthorn grew, Remembrance wakes with all her busy train, Swells at my breast I still had hopes, for pride attends us still, ' Amidst the swains to shew my book-learn'd skill. Yes, let the rich deride, with proud disdain, The simple blessings of the... | |
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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... 
