 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 Seiten
...guests, the good man learned to glow, And quite forgot their vices in their woe ; Careless their merit-* o o'er thy country hangs The scouge of Heaven ! What terrors round him wai t lie wretched was his pride. And e'en his failings leaned to virtue's side ; But, in his duty prompt... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1831 - 294 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Susan Ferrier - 1831 - 508 Seiten
...read them ;" and Captain Malcolm went on: — " 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, and felt, and pray'd for all ; And as a bird each fond endearment tries, To tempt its new-fledged offspring... | |
 | Mary Martha Sherwood - 1831 - 400 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Derbyshire Archaeological Society - 1883 - 252 Seiten
...the village preacher described by Goldsmith, that " 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—he pray'd—and felt for all ; And, as a bird each fond endearment... | |
 | 1920 - 694 Seiten
...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 at every call He watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all." [B. I, No. 82l... | |
 | Leslie J. Francis - 1989 - 244 Seiten
...Shouldered his crutch, and show'd how fields were won; Pleased with his guests, the good man learned to glow, And quite forgot their vices in their woe; Careless...their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. OLIVER GOLDSMITH (1728-1774) 53. We passed on after we left the forest through many pleasant villages... | |
 | Jacob Rader Marcus - 1989 - 974 Seiten
...pious never forgot that giving was a mitzvah, both a divine imperative and a religious opportunity: Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries schnorring flourished only to fall on evil... | |
 | Robert H. Bremner - 260 Seiten
...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...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,... | |
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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... 
