 | Edward Dayes, Edward Wedlake Brayley - Artists - 1805 - 432 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... | |
 | E Tomkins - 1806 - 280 pages
...Pleas'd with his guests, the good man learn'd to glow, And quite forgot their vices in their woe j Careless their merits or their faults to scan* His pity gave, ere chanty began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failingslean'd to virtue's side;... | |
 | English poetry - 1807 - 316 pages
...toglow, And quite forgot their vices in their woe : Carelels their merits, or their faults to fcan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the...his pride, And, ev'n his failings lean'd to virtue's fide ; But iu his duty prompt at every call, He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt for all. And,... | |
 | Richard Cecil - 1808 - 330 pages
...More bent to raise the wretched than to rise. 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, he pray'd and felt, for all: And as a bird each fond endearment tries,... | |
 | English poetry - English poetry - 1809 - 308 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 ;...lean'd to virtue's side ; But in his duty prompt at every call, He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt for all; And, as a bird each fond endearment tries,... | |
 | English poetry - 1809 - 488 pages
...Shoulder'd his crutch,and shew'd how fields werewon. Pleas'd 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 even his failings lean'd to Virtue's Mde; But in his duty prompt, at every call He watch'd and wept,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 322 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...to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relkve the wretched was his pride, And ev'n his failings lean'd to virtue's side ;. But in his duty... | |
 | George Gregory - Books and reading - 1809 - 384 pages
...Shoulder'd his crutch, andshew'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;...faults to scan, " His pity gave ere charity began." I cannot resist the temptation of adding the portrait of the schoolmaster " Beside yon straggling fence... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 102 pages
...to glow, And quite forgot their vices in their woe; Carelefs their merits or their faults to fcan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the...his pride, And ev'n his failings lean'd to virtue's fide; But in his duty prompt at every call, He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt, for all— And,... | |
 | Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 pages
...Shouldered lus crutch, 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 ;...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 tries,... | |
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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; 
