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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... "
The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith - Page 19
by Oliver Goldsmith - 1872 - 231 pages
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The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Miscellaneous poems. The good ...

Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1825 - 476 pages
...Shoulder'd his crutch, and show'd how fields were won. Pleased with his guests, the good man learn'd to glow, And quite forgot their vices in their woe...virtue's side ; But in his duty prompt at every call, He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt for all ; And, as a bird each fond endearment tries, To tempt...
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Sequel to the English Reader: Or, Elegant Selections in Prose and Poetry ...

Lindley Murray - Elocution - 1825 - 310 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...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 tries,...
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The Works of the Rev. Richard Cecil: With a Memoir of His Life, Volume 1

Richard Cecil - Theology - 1825 - 476 pages
...other aims his heart had learn'd to prize, More bent to raise the wretched than to rise. VoL. I. 34* Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en...side ; But, in his duty, prompt at every call, He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt, for all : And, as a bird each fond endearment tries, To tempt...
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The Traveller, the Deserted Village, and Other Poems

Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1825 - 160 pages
...Pleas'd with his guests, the good man Iearn'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 ev'ry call, He watch'd and wept,...
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Remarks on the legality and expediency of prosecutions for religious opinion ...

Jonathan Duncan - Dissenters, Religious - 1825 - 274 pages
...His house was known to all the vagrant train, He chid their wanderings, but relieved their pain. . Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings lean'd to virtue's side ; But in bis duty, prompt at every call, He watcli'd, he wept, he pray'd, he felt for all : And as a bird each...
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The Hearts of Steel: An Irish Historical Tale of the Last Century, Volume 1

James M'Henry - Ireland - 1825 - 348 pages
...pleasure, and withdrew to repose. CHAPTER XI. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And etfn his failings lean'd to virtue's side; But in his duty prompt at every call, He watch'd and wept, he pray'd, and felt for all. And as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt hernete-jledged...
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Select Poets of Great Britain: To which are Prefixed, Criticial Notices of ...

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...faults to sean, His pity gave ere eharity began. Thus to relieve the wretehed was his pride, And even his failings lean'd to virtue's side ; But in his duty prompt at every eall, He wateh'd and wept, he pray'd and felt for all. And, as a bird eaeh fond endearment tries, To...
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Elegant Extracts: A Copious Selection of Instructive, Moral, and ..., Volume 6

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,...
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The Speaker; Or, Miscellaneous Pieces: Selected from the Best English ...

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,...
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Specimens of sacred and serious poetry, from Chaucer to the present day ...

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,...
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