 | John Pierpont - 1829 - 290 pages
...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...began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And even his failings leaned to virtue's side : But, in his duty prompt at every call, He watched and wept,... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - 256 pages
...wounds, or tales of sorrow done, Shoulder'd his crutch, and show'd how fields were won. Pleas'dwith his guests, the good man learn'd to glow, And quite...ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was bis pride, And ev'n his failings lean'd to Virtue's side ; But in his duty prompt, at every call, He... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 pages
...his wounds, or, tales of sorrow done, Shoulder'd his crutch, and show'd how fields were won. Pleas'd with his guests, the good man learn'd to glow, And...Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave.ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And even his failings lean'd to... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1830 - 544 pages
...it was all that he asked to know. Like his own village pastor, he overflowed with benevolence, and ear. AN ELEGY, WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH- YARD. This is a very fine poem, but o This profuse and undistuiguishing liberality has sometimes been imputed to him as a fault; but it at... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 pages
...Shouldered his crutch, und shewed how fields were WOL. Pleased with his guests, the good man learned there. I cannot say he is everywhere merit-* or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve; t lie wretched was... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1831 - 294 pages
...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... | |
 | Mary Martha Sherwood - 1831 - 400 pages
...present to the public, I shall conclude what I have now to say, in the beautiful lines of Goldsmith — " Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings lean'd to virtue's side." CHAPTER II. SNOWDON. Being the first memorandum, in point of date, which was found among the papers... | |
 | Joseph Emerson - 1832 - 122 pages
...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 pages
...his wounds, or tales of sorrow done, Shoulder'd his crutch, and show'd how fields were won. Pleas'd with his guests, the good man learn'd to glow, And...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,... | |
 | Plantagenet - 1835 - 950 pages
...miserable ; — even where vice was combined with misfortune, ( and how seldom is it not?) — ' Pleas'd with his guests, the good man learn'd to glow, And quite forgot their rices in their woe.' Himself poor, he might say to them, with the apostle of old — ' Gold have I... | |
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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... 
