 | John Pierpont - 1831 - 294 Seiten
...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...charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his prider And even his failings leaned to virtue's side : But, in his duty prompt at every call, He watched... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 Seiten
...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...began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings leaned to virtue's side; But in his duty, prompt at every call, He watched and wept,... | |
 | Joseph Emerson - 1832 - 122 Seiten
...his crutch, and shew'd how fields were won. [to glow, Pleas'd with his guests, the good man learn'd And quite forgot their vices in their woe ; Careless their merits or their faults to scan, 25 His pity gave, ere charity began. And, as a bird each fond endearment tries, To tempt her new fledg'd... | |
 | Richard Hiley - 1834 - 188 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...began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings lean'd to virtue's side; But in his duty, prompt at ev'ry call, He watch'd and wept,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1836 - 150 Seiten
...his guests, the good man learn d to glow, And quite forgot their vices in their woe ; Careless tlieir merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere...Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And even nis failings lean'd to virtue's side ; But in his duty prompt at every call, He -wateVd and wept, he... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1836 - 274 Seiten
...The best rule or example is that of Goldsmith's good man who forgot the vices of his destitute guests in their woe — "Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began." There should be no winter in the bounty of those who are able to give alms — Cowper describes charity... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 438 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...began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And ev'n his failings leau'd to virtue's side ; But in his duty prompt, at ev'ry call, He watch'd and wept,... | |
 | Derbyshire Archaeological Society - 1883 - 252 Seiten
...the village preacher described by Goldsmith, that " 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—he pray'd—and felt for all ; And, as a bird each fond endearment... | |
 | 1920 - 694 Seiten
...76th year. " The long-remembered beggar was his guest, Whose beard descending swept his aged breast, Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave, ere charity began. But in his duty prompt at every call He watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all." [B. I, No. 82l... | |
 | Leslie J. Francis - 1989 - 244 Seiten
...his crutch, and show'd how fields were won; Pleased with his guests, the good man learned to glow, And quite forgot their vices in their woe; Careless...their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. OLIVER GOLDSMITH (1728-1774) 53. We passed on after we left the forest through many pleasant villages... | |
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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... 
