 | English poetry - 1809
...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...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,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810
...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 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... | |
 | Thomas Janes - 1810
...share I still had hopes my latest hours to crown; Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down; I stilJ had hopes, my long vexations past, Here to return and die at home at last. O bless'd retirement, friend to life's decline, Retreats from care, that never must be mine! How bless'd... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 782 oldal
...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 blest retirement, friend to life's decline, Retreats from care, that never must be mine, How blest... | |
 | John Bernard Trotter - 1811 - 552 oldal
...time : " And as an 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, and die ac last." Another of those symptoms of melancholy foreboding, I thought, was shewn in his manner at... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1812
...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, J still had hopes, my long vexations past, Here to return— and die at home at last, 0 blest retirement,... | |
 | John Bernard Trotter - 1812 - 536 oldal
...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 - 107 oldal
...group to draw, And tell of all I felt, and all I saw ; And as a hare whom hounds and horns persue, Pants to the place from whence at first he flew, I...past, Here to return. ...and die at home at last. O blest retirement, friend to life's decline, Retreats from care, that never must be mine, How blest... | |
 | 1814 - 300 oldal
...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 past, Here to return — and die at home at last. O blest... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1816 - 149 oldal
...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 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... | |
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... 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... 
