 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1800 - 192 pages
...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 from whence at first she flew, I still had hopes, my long vexations past, Here to return — and die at home at last. O... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1804 - 114 pages
...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 she flew, I still had hopes, my long vexations pass'd, Here to return — and die at home at last.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1805 - 264 pages
...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 ; And, as a hare,...horns pursue, Pants to the place from whence at first she flew, I still had hopes, my long vexations past, Here to return — and die at home at last. O... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pages
...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 retirement ! friend to life's... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...book-learn'd skill. Around my fire, an evening group to draw, And tell if all I felt, and all I saw ; And, ns a hare, whom hounds and horns pursue, Pants to the...last. O blest retirement, friend to life's decline, Retreat from care, th:it never must be mine ! How blest.is he, who crowns, in shades like these, A... | |
 | English poetry - English poetry - 1809 - 308 pages
...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 ; And, as a hare...I still had hopes, my long vexations past, Here to return—and die at home at last. O blest retirement, friend to life's decline, Retreats from care,... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...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...vexations past, Here to return— and die at home at last. For him no wretches, born to work and weep, Explore the mine, or tempt the dangerous deep ; No surly... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 322 pages
...still, Amidst the swains to show my book-learn'd skilLD2 Around my fire an evening group to draw, And tell of all I felt, and all I saw ; And as a have, whom hounds and horns pursue, Pants to the place from whence at first he flew, I still had hopes,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 648 pages
...swains to show my book-learn'd ski 1 1, Around my fire an ev'ning group to draw, And tell of all 1 felt, and all I saw ; And, as a hare, whom hounds...horns pursue, Pants to the place from whence at first she flew, I still had hopes, my long vexations past, Here to return — and die at home at last. O... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 656 pages
...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 ; And, as a hare, whom hounds and horns pursue, Pants to the place from whence at first she fie*, I still bad hopes, my long vexations past, Here to return — and die at home at last. O... | |
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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... 
