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 19by Oliver Goldsmith - 1872 - 231 pagesFull view - About this book
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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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