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The National Fifth Reader: Containing a Complete and Practical Treatise on ... - Page 188
by Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1873 - 581 pages
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Select British Poets, Or, New Elegant Extracts from Chaucer to the Present ...

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...all my griefs — and God has giv'n my share — I still had hopes my latest hours to crown, Amidst / Amidst the swains to show my book-learn'd skill, Around my fire an evening group to draw, And tell...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Miscellaneous poems. The good ...

Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1825 - 476 pages
...all my griefs — 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...repose : I still had hopes, for pride attends us still, Amidst the swains to show my book-learn' d skill, Around my fire an evening group to draw, And tell...
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Select Poets of Great Britain: To which are Prefixed, Criticial Notices of ...

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...by repose : ¡ still had hopes, for pride attends us still, Amidst the swains to show my book-leam'd aree plaee from whenee at first he flew, ¡ still had hopes, my long vexations past, ¡1ere to return —...
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Sequel to the English Reader: Or, Elegant Selections in Prose and Poetry ...

Lindley Murray - Elocution - 1825 - 310 pages
...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...repose : I still had hopes, for pride attends us still, Amidst the swains to show my book-learn'd skill ; Around my fire an evening group to draw, And tell...
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Elegant Extracts: Consisting of larger poems

English poetry - 1826 - 300 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...repose: I still had hopes, for pride attends us still, Amidst the swains to show my book-learn'd skill, Around my fire an evening group to draw, And tell...
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The Poetical Melange

English poetry - 1828 - 814 pages
...flame from wasting my repose : I still had hopes, for pride attends us still, Amidst the swains to shew my book-learned skill, Around my fire an evening group...felt, and all I saw ; And as a hare, whom hounds and horn pursue, Pants to the place from whence at first he flew., I still had hopes, my long vexations...
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The Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song

Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...all my griefs — 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...; I still had hopes — for pride attends us still — Amidst the swains to show my booklearned skill, Around my fire an evening group to draw, And tell...
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The Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: With a Life and Notes, Volume 4

Oliver Goldsmith - 1835 - 362 pages
...all my griefs — 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...; I still had hopes — for pride attends us still — Amidst the swains to shew my book-learn "d skill, Around my fire an evening group to draw, And...
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The miscellaneous works of Oliver Goldsmith, with an account of ..., Volume 2

Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 472 pages
...In all my griefs—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...repose: I still had hopes, for pride attends us still, Amidst the swains to show my book-learn'd skill, Around my fire an evening group to draw, And tell...
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The Church of England quarterly review, Volume 1

1837 - 646 pages
...my latest hours to crown, Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down ; * Essay on the Poetry of Gray. To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep...I still had hopes, — for pride attends us still, — Amidst the swains to show my book-learn'd skill ; Around my fire an evening group to draw, To tell...
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