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Sequel to the English Reader: Or, Elegant Selections in Prose and Poetry ... - Page 219
by Lindley Murray - 1825 - 299 lehte
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Miscellaneous poems. Dramatic poems

Oliver Goldsmith - 1820 - 488 lehte
...and GOD has giv'n 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...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...
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Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical ..., 9. köide

John Aikin - 1821 - 314 lehte
...griefs—and God has giv'n my share—- I still had hopes my latesf hours to crown, Amidst these humble bow'rs to lay me down; To husband out life's taper at 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 and horns...
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Poems

Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 236 lehte
...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...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;...
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The Works of the British Poets: With Lives of the Authors, 30. köide

Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 428 lehte
...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...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...
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Select British Poets, Or, New Elegant Extracts from Chaucer to the Present ...

William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 lehte
...and God has giv'n my share — I still had hopes my latest hours to crown, Amidst these humble bowers y William C. Hall an hare whom hounds and horns pursue, Pants to the place from whence at first he flew, I still had...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton ...

John Milton - 1824 - 510 lehte
...liod 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...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:...
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Addresses Delivered at the Triennial Celebration ...

1824 - 706 lehte
...cease to labor, and retreating to some fairy spot, where the world dies away and paradise begins, may " Husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose." But the time for such retirement recedes with advancing years ; habit reconciles the mill horse to...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Miscellaneous poems. The good ...

Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 476 lehte
...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...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...
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The Traveller, the Deserted Village, and Other Poems

Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 160 lehte
...has giv'n my share — I ctill had hopes, my latest hours to crown, •Vmiilsl these humble bow'rs to lay me down ; To husband out life's taper at 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...
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Select Poets of Great Britain: To which are Prefixed, Criticial Notices of ...

William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 lehte
...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 ;...
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