 | English poetry - 1803 - 294 pages
...how fields were "■ won. i THE DESERTED VILLAGE. 13 Pleas'd with his guests, the good man leam'd to glow, And quite forgot their vices in their woe ;...; 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 ev'ry call, He watch'd and wept,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1803 - 366 pages
...; Carelefs their merits or their faults to fcan, His pity gave ere charity began >)• to g)<>w r , Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And ev'n his failings lean'd to Virtue's Tide; But, in his duty prompt at every call, He watch'd and wept, he pray'd, and felt for all. And,... | |
 | Letter writing - 1803 - 268 pages
...distant expectation of something to come; as, " 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 \vept, he pray'd and felt for all." GOLDSMITH. A PERIOD makes the fullest... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1804 - 114 pages
...Shoulder'd his crutch, and show'd how fields were won. Pleased with his guests, the good man learn'd to glow, And quite forgot their vices in their woe; Careless...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,... | |
 | Gilbert Wakefield - 1804 - 596 pages
...such a trifle." this, as in every other situation of life, it might be justly said of him, " Still to relieve the wretched was his pride, And ev'n his failings lean'd to virtue's side." CHAP. IX. Visits to Mr. IFakefield—Literary Projects—Mr. Dodsorts Legacy. 1799IN September of this... | |
 | Gilbert Wakefield - 1804 - 572 pages
...such a trifle." this, as in every other situation of life, it might be justly said of him, " Still to relieve the -wretched was his pride, And ev'n his failings lean'd to virtue's side." CHAP. IX; Visits to Mr. Wakefield—Literary Projects—Mr. Dodson't Legacy. IN September of this year... | |
 | E. Tomkins - 1804 - 416 pages
...Shoulder'd hiscrutch, and show'd how fields were won. Pleas'd with his guests, the good man learn'd to glow. And quite forgot their vices in their woe; Careless their merits or their 1 faults to scan,. His pity gave ere charity began. Thos to relieve the wretched WHI his pride, And... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1805 - 264 pages
...Shoulder'd his crutch, and shew'd how fields were won. Pleas'd with his guests, the good man learn'd to glow, And quite forgot their vices in their woe; Careless...pride, And ev'n his failings lean'd to virtue's side; it in his duty prompt, at ev'ry call, He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt, for all: And, as a bird... | |
 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1805 - 456 pages
...their woe; Carelefs their merits, or their faults to fcan, His gity gave ere charity began. . Tie*. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And ev'n his failings lean'd to Virtue's fides But in his duiy prompt at every call,. He wateh'ct and wept, he pray'd and felt for alL And,... | |
 | Edward Dayes, Edward Wedlake Brayley - Artists - 1805 - 422 pages
...riches, and by his extensive benevolence: his heart was ever open to the calls of distress; for, ' Careless their merits or their faults to scan, ' His pity gave ere charity began.' 'When Cipriani was making the designs for the Orlando Furioso, in a frontispiece, he delineated Time... | |
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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; 
