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The Prose and Poetry of Europe and America: Consisting of Literary Gems and ... - Page 314
1845 - 600 pages
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The Poetical Works, and Essays, of Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 294 pages
...to show my book-learn'd skill ; Around my fire an evening group to draw, And tell of aH 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, B» I still had hopes, my long vexations past, Here to return — and die at home at last. O blest...
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The Traveller, The Deserted Village, and Other Poems ...

Oliver Goldsmith - 1817 - 192 pages
...to show my 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 Sew, I still had hopes, my long vexations past, Here to return — and die at home at last. O blest...
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The poems and plays of Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 274 pages
...to show my book-learned 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...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...
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The Deserted Village, Traveller, and Miscellaneous Poems

Oliver Goldsmith - 1819 - 120 pages
...to show my book-l^arn'd skill; Around my fire an .evening group to draw, Aad tell of nil 1 felt, and all I saw : And, as a hare whom hounds and horns pursue,...whence at first she flew, I still had hopes, my long vexatious past, Here to return — and die at home at last. O blest retirement, friend to life's decline,...
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Specimens of the British Poets: Churchill, 1764, to Johnson, 1784

Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 482 pages
...; And, as a hare whom hounds and horns pursue, Pants to the place from whence at first he flew, . 1 still had hopes, my long vexations past, Here to return...last. O blest retirement, friend to life's decline, Retreats from care that never must be mine, How blest is he who crowns in shades like these A youth...
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Churchill, 1764, to Johnson, 1784

Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 498 pages
...to show my 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, I still had hopes, my long vexations past, Here to return — and die at home at last. O blest...
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Miscellaneous poems. Dramatic poems

Oliver Goldsmith - 1820 - 488 pages
...all I saw ; And, as a hare whom hounds and horns pursue, Pants to the place from whence at first he flew, I still had hopes, my long vexations past, Here...last. O blest retirement, friend to life's decline, Retreats from care, that never must be mine, How blest is he who crowns in shades like these, A youth...
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Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical ..., Volume 9

John Aikin - 1821 - 314 pages
...to show my 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,...last. O blest retirement, friend to life's decline, Retreats from care, that never must be mine, How blest is he who crowns, in shades like these, A youth...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, Volume 2

Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 446 pages
...all I saw ; And, as a hare, whpm hounds and horns pursue, Pants to the place from whence at first he flew, I still had hopes, my long vexations past, Here...last. O blest retirement, friend to life's decline, Retreats from care, that never must be mine* How btest is he who crowns, in shades like these, A youth...
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The Works of the British Poets: With Lives of the Authors, Volume 30

Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 428 pages
...fire an evening group to draw, And tell of all 1 felt, and all I saw ; And, as a hare, whom bounds and horns pursue, Pants to the place from whence at...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 happy...
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