 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 162 pages
...God has given my share — 36 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 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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Irish literature - 1851 - 476 pages
...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 close, And keep the flame from wasting, by repose : I still had hopes — for pride attends us still — Amidst the swains to shew my book-le.irn'd... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1851 - 400 pages
...and God has giv'n my share — I still had hopes my latest hours to crown, Amid 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, Amid the swains to show my book-learn'd... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 160 pages
...God has given my share — 36 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 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... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - English literature - 1852 - 570 pages
...God has given my share — I still had hopes my latest hours to crown, 85 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 book-learu'd... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 pages
...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 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... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1853 - 332 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1853 - 404 pages
...and God has giv'n ray share — I still had hopes my latest hours to crown, Amid 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, Amid the swains to show my book-learn'd... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1853 - 332 pages
...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 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... | |
 | William Spalding - English language - 1853 - 446 pages
...and God has given my share — I still had hopes my latest years to crown, 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 book-learned... | |
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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. 
