| John Hall - Elocution - 1845 - 354 pages
...has given my share' — 45 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 repos£ : I still had hopes,' (for pride attends us still',) 50 Amidst the swains to show my book-learned... | |
| James Waddel Alexander - Labor - 1847 - 300 pages
...arrangements of Providence, and you will not fail to see better days. XXXIII. THE VILLAGE REVISITED. " I still had hopes, for pride attends us still, Amidst...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... | |
| John Forster - 1848 - 744 pages
...bowers to lay me down ; To husband out life's taper at the elose, And keep the tiame from wasting, by repose. I still had hopes, for pride attends us still,...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... | |
| English poetry - 1848 - 468 pages
...— and God has giv'n my share — I still had hopes my latest hours to crown, Amidst these humble bow'rs 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... | |
| John Forster - 1848 - 740 pages
...God has giveu ray share . . I still had hopes, my latest hours to crown, Amidst these humble bowel's 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... | |
| John Forster - Authors, English - 1848 - 734 pages
...God has given my share . . l 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-learu'd... | |
| Richard Green Parker - Elocution - 1849 - 466 pages
...and God has given 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 ; 35 I still had hopes, — for pride attends us still, — Amid the swains to show my book-learned... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1850 - 558 pages
...lay me down ; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose :J I still had hopes, for pride attends us still, Amidst...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... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1850 - 554 pages
...and God has given 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... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1850 - 566 pages
...and God has given 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... | |
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