 | English poetry - 1826 - 300 pages
...Pleas'd with his guests, the good man learn'd to And quite forgot their vices in their wo ; [glow, Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His...began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And ev'n his failings lean'd to virtue's side ; But in his duty prompt, at every call, He watch'd and wept,... | |
 | John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 pages
...won. Pleas'd with his guests, the good man learn'd to glow, And quite forgot their vices in their wo ; Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His...began. Thus, to relieve the wretched was his pride; And even his failings lean'd to virtue's side; But, in his duty prompt at every call, He watch'd and wept,... | |
 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1827 - 412 pages
...Plcas'd with his guests, the good man /-.;mi"(/ to glow, And quite forgot their vices in their wo ; Careless their merits, or their faults to scan, His...began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And ev'n his failings lean'd to Virtue's side: But in his duty prompt at ev'ry call, He watch'd and wept,... | |
 | C D. Golland, Mrs. C. D. Haynes Golland - 1827 - 594 pages
...pecuniary affairs, will just be adapted to you. , ' Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And even his failings lean'd to Virtue's side ; But in his duty prompt at every call, He watch'd and wept — l•e pray'd and felt for all." Mr. Horace returned a suitable reply ; but wishing to change a... | |
 | John Pierpont - Children's literature - 1828 - 320 pages
...won. Pleased with his guests, the good man learned to glow, And quite forgot their vices in their wo; Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His...began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And even his failings leaned to virtue's side : But, in his duty prompt at every call, He watched and wept,... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 809 pages
...disagree, But all mankind'» concern ¡я charity. Pope. Pleased with his guests the good man learned to glow. And quite forgot their vices in their woe ;...their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Goldmith. The societies which were instituted in the cities of the Roman empire wer» united only by... | |
 | John Pierpont - Readers - 1829 - 290 pages
...won. Pleased with his guests, the good man learned to glow, And quite forgot their vices in their wo ; Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His...began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And even his failings leaned to virtue's side : But, in his duty prompt at every call, He watched and wept,... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - English poetry - 1830 - 256 pages
...Shoulder'd his crutch, and show'd how fields were won. Pleas'dwith his guests, the good man learn'd to glow, And quite forgot their vices in their woe ;...ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was bis pride, And ev'n his failings lean'd to Virtue's side ; But in his duty prompt, at every call, He... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...Shoulder'd his crutch, and show'd how fields were won. Pleas'd with his guests, the good man learn'd to glow, And quite forgot their vices in their woe ;...Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave.ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And even his failings lean'd to... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1830 - 544 pages
...it was all that he asked to know. Like his own village pastor, he overflowed with benevolence, and ear. AN ELEGY, WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH- YARD. This is a very fine poem, but o This profuse and undistuiguishing liberality has sometimes been imputed to him as a fault; but it at... | |
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Wept o'er his wounds or tales of sorrow done, Shouldered his crutch, and showed how fields were won. Pleased with his guests, the good man learned to glow, And quite forgot their vices in their woe ; Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His... 
