 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1819 - 120 pages
...past to pain. In all my wand'rings through this world of care, In all my griefs — and God has giv'n my share— I still had hopes, my latest hours to crown, Amidst these huir.ble bowers to lay me down ; To husband out life's taper at the close. And keep the flame from... | |
 | 1823 - 816 pages
...not to believe, aye, and be convinced, that the author of the following lines felt what he wrote : In all my wanderings round this world of care, In all...to crown, Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down : And as a hare, when hounds and horns pursue, Pants to the place from whence at first she flew, I... | |
 | 1824 - 706 pages
...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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 160 pages
...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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pages
...eare, In all my griefs — and God has giv'n my share— ¡ still had hopes, my latest hours to erown, eet and good As the most delieious food, MH:ieh but tasted does impart Life an elose, And keep the flame from wasting by repose : ¡ still had hopes, for pride attends us still,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1825 - 310 pages
...past to pain. In all my wartd'rings round this world of care, In all my griefs — and God has giv'n my share— I still had hopes, my latest hours to crown, Amidst these humble bowr's to lay me down ; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting,... | |
 | Daniel Dewar - 1826 - 620 pages
...been called away to other climes, feel sometime to revisit their native land. In all my wand'rings round this world of care, In all my griefs, — and...to crown, Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down ; — And as a hare whom hounds and horns pursue, Pants to the place from whence at first he flew,... | |
 | Daniel Dewar - 1826 - 692 pages
...been called away to other climes, feel sometime to revisit their native land. In all my wand'rings round this world of care, In all my griefs, — and...to crown, Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down ; — And as a hare whom hounds and horns pursue, Pants to the place from whence at first he flew,... | |
 | 1826 - 538 pages
...reconciled ; Anna left — she left behind her One — one dear — one only child." MONTGOMERY. " In all my wanderings round this world of care, in all...griefs, — and GOD has given my share — I still hadhopes my latesthours to crown ; Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down; I still had hopes, —... | |
 | 1826 - 300 pages
...grew, Remembrance wakes with all her busy train, Swells at my breast, aud turns the past to pain. In all my wanderings round this world of care, In all my griefs — and God has giv'n my share — I still had hopes my latest hours to crown, Amidst these humble bow'rs to lay me... | |
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To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose... 
