 | Elegant extracts - 1805 - 1054 Seiten
...learn'd to -And quite forgot their vices in their woe ; Carelels their merits or their faults to lean, His pity gave ere charity began, Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And ev'n his failings lean'd to Virtue's fide ; lJut, in his duty prompt at ev'ry call, .He watch'd and... | |
 | Edward Dayes, Edward Wedlake Brayley - 1805 - 422 Seiten
...riches, and by his extensive benevolence : his heart was ever open to the calls of distress; for, ' Careless their merits or their faults to scan, ' His pity gave ere charity began.' When Cipriani was making the designs for the Orlando Furioso, in a frontispiece, he delineated Time... | |
 | 1806 - 330 Seiten
...his crutch, and shew'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...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,... | |
 | E Tomkins - 1806 - 280 Seiten
...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...faults to scan, His pity gave, ere charity began. ThuMo relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings lean'd to virtue's side; But in his... | |
 | Solomon Hodgson - 1806 - 362 Seiten
...to glow, And quite forgot their vices in their woe ; Carelefs their merits, or their faults to fcan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the...his pride, And even his failings lean'd to Virtue's fide ; But in his duty prompt, at every call, . He watch'd and wept, he pray'd, and felt for all. And... | |
 | 1806 - 360 Seiten
...his guefts, the good man learn'd to glow, And quite forgot their vices in their woe; wild; .;.,. », Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And even his failings lean'd to Virtue's fide; But in his duty prompt, at every call, He watch'd and wept, he pray'd, and felt for all. And... | |
 | William Enfield - 1808 - 434 Seiten
...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...merits, or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere Charily bega'tt. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride} And even his failings lean'd to Virtue's... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 322 Seiten
...his crutch, and shew'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...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,... | |
 | English poetry - 1809 - 308 Seiten
...his crutch, and shew'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...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,... | |
 | George Gregory - 1809 - 384 Seiten
...his crutch, andshew'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...faults to scan, " His pity gave ere charity began." I cannot resist the temptation of adding the portrait of the schoolmaster -8 AMPLIFICATION-. " Beside... | |
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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... 
