| Mrs. Costello - 1809 - 248 pages
...A TALE. CHAP. I. A Man he .was to all the country dear, Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for pow'r, Bj doctrines fashion'd to the varying' hour ; Far other...prize* More bent to raise the wretched than to rise. IN a retired romantic village in the west of England^ some years previous to the commencement of this... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 322 pages
...or seek for power, By doctrines fashion'd to the varying hour ; Far other aims his heart had leam'd to prize, More bent to raise the wretched than to...was known to all the vagrant train, He chid their wand'rings, but reliev'd their pain ; The long remember'd beggar was his guest, Whose beard descending... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1812 - 470 pages
...with forty pounds a year; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had chang'd, nor wish'dto change his place; Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for...was known to all the vagrant train, He chid their wand'rings, but reliev'd their pain ; The long remember' d beggar was his guest, Whose beard descending... | |
| 1814 - 310 pages
...seek for power, By doctrines fashion 'd to the varying hour; Far other aims his heart had Iearn'd°to prize, More bent to raise the wretched than to rise....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... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1816 - 240 pages
...chang'd, nor wish'd to change bis place; Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for pow'r, By doctrines fash ion' d to the varying hour; Far other aims his heart had...was known to all the vagrant train, He chid their wand'rings, but reliev'd their pain; The long remember'd beggar was his guest, Whose beard descending... | |
| Richard Cecil, Josiah Pratt - 1816 - 602 pages
...have been more accurately delineated than by the following lines in his " Deserted Village :" — " Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines...prize, More bent to raise the wretched than to rise. Thns to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings Ican'd to Virtue's side; But, in... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1817 - 192 pages
...or seek for pow'r, By doctrines fashion'd to the varying hour ' Far other aims his heart had leam'd to prize, More bent to raise the wretched than to...was known to all the vagrant train, He chid their wand'rings, bnt reliev'd their pain ; The long remember'd beggar was his guest, Whose beard descending... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 274 pages
...doctrines fashioned to the varying hour: Far other aims his heart had learned to prize— More skilled to raise the wretched than to rise. His house was...chid their wanderings, but relieved their pain: The long-remembered beggar was his guest, Whose beard descending swept his aged breast; The ruined spendthrift,... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 498 pages
...forty pounds a year ; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had chang'd, nor wish'd to change his place; Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for...was known to all the vagrant train, He chid their wand'rings, but reliev'd their pain ; The long-remember'd beggar was his guest, Whose beard descending... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 482 pages
...disclo'se, The village preacher's modest mansion rose, A man he was to all the country dear, ' . ' '. Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines...was known to all the vagrant train, He chid their wand'rings, but reliev'd their pain ; The long-reuiember'd beggar was his guest, Whose beard descending... | |
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