 | Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 pages
...hour ; Far other aims his heart had learned to prize, More bent to raise the wretched than to rise. His house was known to all the vagrant train, He chid their wanderings, but relieved their pain, The long remembered beggar was his guest, Whose beard descending swept his aged breast ; The ruined spendthrift,... | |
 | 1838 - 488 pages
...poorest order, we shall not be far wrong when we apply to him the words of the poet Goldsmith : — " His house was known to all the vagrant train. He chid their wanderings, but relieved their pain : The long-remember'd beggar was his guest, Whose beard descending swept his aged breast ; The ruin'd spendthrift... | |
 | James Wilson - 1838 - 372 pages
...AUTHORITY. The Gentleman's Magazine, for 1781. THE REV. EDWARD STOKES, THE BENEVOLENT BLIND CLERGYMAN. " His house was known to all the vagrant train, He chid their wanderings, but reliev'd their pain ; The long remember'd beggar was his guest, Whose beard descending swept his aged... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1839 - 242 pages
...hour ; Far other aims his heart had learnt to prize, More bent to raise the wretched than to rise. His house was known to all the vagrant train, He chid their wanderings, but relieved their pain ; The long-remember'd beggar was his guest, Whose beard descending swept his aged breast ; The ruin'd spendthrift,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1839 - 360 pages
...hour ; Far other aims his heart had learn'd to prize, More bent to raise the wretched than to rise. His house was known to all the vagrant train, He chid their wanderings, but reliev'd their pain, The long remember'd beggar was his guest, 1 Whose beard descending swept his aged... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith (the Poet.) - 1839 - 358 pages
...hour ; Far other aims his heart had learn'd to prize, More bent to raise the wretched than to rise, jl His house was known to all the vagrant train, He chid their wanderings, but reliev'd their pain, The long remember'd beggar was his guest, 7 Whose beard descending swept his aged... | |
 | 1920 - 694 pages
...Canada was too severe. He left Montreal and closed his valuable life in this city in his 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... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pages
...dispossess the swain; . . . She only left of all the harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. His house was known to all the vagrant train; He chid their wanderings, but relieved their pain; . . . Yes! let the rich deride, the proud disdain These simple blessings of the lowly train; . . .... | |
 | Leslie J. Francis - 1989 - 244 pages
...varying hour; Far other aims his heart had learned to prize More bent to raise the wretched than to rise. His house was known to all the vagrant train, He chid their wanderings, but reliev'd their pain; The long remembered beggar was his guest, Where beard descending swept his aged... | |
 | Robert H. Bremner - 260 pages
...hour; Far other aims his heart had learned to prize, More skilled to raise the wretched than to rise. His house was known to all the vagrant train, He chid...Whose beard descending swept his aged breast; The ruined spendthrift, now no longer proud, Claimed kindred there and had his claims allowed; The broken... | |
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His house was known to all the vagrant train ; He chid their wanderings, but relieved their pain. The long-remembered beggar was his guest, Whose beard descending swept his aged breast... 
