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The wanderer: or, A collection of original tales and essays - Page 6
by Charles Fothergill (of Salisbury.) - 1803
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The British Poets: Including Translations ...

British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 296 pages
...race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wish'd to change hi; Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power, [place; By doctrines fashion'd to the varying hour; Far other...rise. His house was known to all the vagrant train, He chid their wanderings, but relieved their pain; The long remember'd beggar was his guest, Whose...
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The British Poets: Including Translations ...

British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 290 pages
...race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wish'd to change his Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power, [place; By doctrines fashion'd to the varying hour; Far other...rise. His house was known to all the vagrant train, He chid their wanderings, but relieved their pain ; The long remember'd beggar was his guest, Whose...
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The Works of the British Poets: With Lives of the Authors, Volume 30

Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - English poetry - 1822 - 428 pages
...race, Nor e'er had chang'd,nor wish'd to change his place; Unpractis'd 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 skill'd to raise the wretched than to rise. His house was known to all the vagrant train, He chid their...
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The Bardiad: A Poem ; in Two Cantos

Charles Burton - 1823 - 234 pages
...race, Nor e'er had chang'd, nor wish'd to change his place : Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashion'd to the varying hour; Far other...rise. His house was known to all the vagrant train, He chid their wand'rings, but reliev'd their pain : The long remember'd beggar was his guest, Whose...
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Friend of Youth: Or, New Selection of Lessons, in Prose and Verse, for ...

Noah Worcester - Ethics - 1823 - 302 pages
...or seek for power, By doctrines fashioned to the varying hour: Far other aims his heart had learned to prize, More bent to raise the wretched than to...rise. His house was known to all the vagrant train, He chid their wand'rings, but relieved their pain. The long remembered beggar was his guest, Whose...
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Select British Poets, Or, New Elegant Extracts from Chaucer to the Present ...

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...race, Nor e'er had chang'd nor wish'd to change his place; Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power, How gladly would the man recall to life The boy's...he demand them at the gales of death. Sorrow has, He chid their wand'rings, but reliev'd their pain ; The long-remembcr'd beggar was his guest, Whose...
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Select readings in verse, by P.R.

Select readings - 1824 - 300 pages
...change his place. Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashion'd to the varying hour j Far other aims his heart had learn'd to prize, More...rise; His house was known to all the vagrant train, He chid their wandVings, but reliev'd their pain ; The long-remember'd beggar was his guest, Whose...
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The Works of the Rev. J. Newton ...: With the Memoirs of the ..., Volume 1

John Newton, Richard Cecil - Theology - 1824 - 738 pages
...than by the following lines in his " Deserted Village:"— " Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power By doctrines fashion'd to the varying hour: Far other...prize, 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...
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The Etonian, Volume 3

1824 - 398 pages
...race, Nor e'er had changed, 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...prize, More bent to raise the wretched than to rise. « * * To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given ; But all his serious thoughts had rest in...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton ...

John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...doctrines fashlon'il to the varying hour; l-'.ir other .lim* his heart had learn'd to prize« More bint to raise the wretched than to rise. His house was known to all the vagrant train, He chid their wanderings, but relieVd their pain : The long-remembcr'd beggar was his guest, Whose...
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