 Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings lean'd to virtue's side...  Annual Register - Seite 199herausgegeben von - 1771Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1846 - 310 Seiten
...their vices in their woe; Careless their merits, or their faults to scan, His pity gave 'ere charily 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, he felt and pray'd... | |
 | Book - 1847 - 216 Seiten
...to glow, And quite forget their vices in their woe ; Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings lean'd to virtue's side ; But, in his duty prompt at every call, He watch'd and wept,... | |
 | Joachim Fernau - 1848 - 736 Seiten
...to glow, And quite forgot their vices in their woe ; Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings lean'd to virtue's side : But in his duty prompt at every call, He watch'd and wept,... | |
 | John Forster - 1848 - 740 Seiten
...to glow, And quite forgot their vices in their woe ; Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings lean'd to virtue's side : But in his duty prompt at every call, He watch'd and wept,... | |
 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 Seiten
...learn'd to glow, And quite forgot their vices in their woe Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity 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,... | |
 | John Forster - 1848 - 734 Seiten
...to glow, And quite forgot their vices in their woe ; Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings lean'd to virtue's side : But in his duty prompt at every call, He watch'd and wept,... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1850 - 318 Seiten
...to glow, And quite forgot their vices in their woe; 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 virtue's side; But in his duty prompt at every call, He watch'd and wept, he felt and pray'd... | |
 | Robert Porter St. John - 1911 - 270 Seiten
...glow, And quite forgot their vices in their woe ; 100 Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings leaned to virtue's side0 ; But in his duty prompt at every call, 165 He watch'd and... | |
 | 1912 - 440 Seiten
...to glow, And quite forgot their vices in their woe; Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings leaned to Virtue's side; But in his duty prompt at every call, He watched and wept,... | |
 | 1912 - 572 Seiten
...to glow, And quite forgot their vices in their woe; Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings leaned to Virtue's side; But in his duty prompt at every call, He watched and wept,... | |
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