 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1800 - 192 pages
...year; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor ere had chang'd, nor wish'd to change, his place; Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for pow'r, By doctrines fashion'd to the varying hour; Far other aims his heart had learn'd to prize, More bent to raise the wretched than to rise. His house... | |
 | Regina Maria Roche - Irish fiction - 1801 - 312 pages
...H. MAXWELL, PRINTER. '. l-'SW PUWIC 98289SA ASTCB, L£H«C U-38 *•• NOCTURNAL VISIT.. CHAP. I. " Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for pow'r " By doctrines fashion'd to the varying hour ; '* Far other aims his heart had learn'd to prize, " More bent to raise the wretched than to rise."... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1805 - 264 pages
...year ; Romote 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 pow'r, By doctrines fashion'd to the varying hour; Far other aims his heart had learn'd to prize, More bent to raise the wretched than to rise. His house... | |
 | George Gregory - Books and reading - 1809 - 384 pages
...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 pow'r, " By doctrines fashion'd to the varying hour ; " Far other aims his heart had learn'd to prize, " More bent to raise the wretched than to rise.... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1813 - 778 pages
...thirty years has this able Divine continued to minister in the vicarage he now holds ; unwilling, as ' Unskilful he to fawn or seek for pow'r, By doctrines fashion'd to the vary ing hour !' ' Perhaps,' observes Mr. Robinson, in the Preface to his Scripture Characters* ' after... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Book ornamentation - 1817 - 192 pages
...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 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 rise. His house... | |
 | Pierce Egan - Bath (England) - 1819 - 398 pages
...; 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 pow'r, By doctrines fashion'd to the varying hour. Far other aims his heart had leara'd to prize, More bent to raise the wretched than to rise ; His house... | |
 | Friedrich Johann Jacobsen - English poetry - 1820 - 796 pages
...Remote from townt he ran ftis godly race, ' , Nor e'er had chang'd , nor wish'd to ckange , his place. Unskilful he to fawn , or seek for pow'r, By doctrines fashion'd to the varying hour ; f'ar other aims Jiis heart had learn'd to prize, jMore bent to raise the wretched than to rise. Jlis... | |
 | John Bowdler - Hymns, English - 1821 - 510 pages
...; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Pv7or e'er had chang'd, nor wish'd to change his place. Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for pow'r, By doctrines fashion'd to the varying hour ; Far other aims his heart had learn'd to prize, More bent to raise the wretched than to rise. His... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 314 pages
...year ; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had chapg'd, nor wish'd to change his place; Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for pow'r, By doctrines fashion'd to the varying hour; Far other aims his heart had learn'd to prize, More bent to raise the wretched than to rise. His house... | |
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Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for pow'r, By doctrines fashion'd to the varying hour; Far other aims his heart had learn'd to prize, More bent to raise the wretched than to rise. 
