 Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings lean'd to virtue's side...  Annual Register - Pàgina 199editat per - 1771Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Roy Bennett Pace - 1917 - 536 pàgines
...glow, And quite forgot their vices in their woe ; Careless their merits or their faults to scan, 60 His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings leaned to virtue's side ; But in his duty prompt at every call, He watched and wept,... | |
 | Georgia Alexander, Grace Alexander - 1917 - 386 pàgines
...to glow, 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 e'en his failings lean'd to virtue's side : But in his duty prompt at every call, He watch'd and wept,... | |
 | Ernest Bernbaum - 1918 - 436 pàgines
...to glow, And quite forget 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 e'en his failings leaned to Virtue's side; But in his duty prompt at every call, He watched and wept,... | |
 | Roy Bennett Pace - 1918 - 986 pàgines
...to glow, 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 e'en his failings leaned to virtue's side ; But in his duty prompt at every call, He watched and wept,... | |
 | William Henry Hudson - 1918 - 186 pàgines
...to glow, 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 e'en his failings leaned to virtue's side ; But in his duty prompt at every call, He watched and wept,... | |
 | Vida Dutton Scudder - 1919 - 572 pàgines
...glow, 160 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 e'en his failings lean'd to virtue's side: 165 But in his duty prompt at every call, He watch'd and... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1919 - 106 pàgines
...glow, And quite forgot their vices in their woe; 160 Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity 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, 165 He watch'd and... | |
 | William Iler Crane, William Henry Wheeler - 1919 - 458 pàgines
...glow, And quite forgot their vices in their woe ; s Careless their merit or their faults to scan, . His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings leaned to virtue's side ; But in his duty prompt at every call, 10 He watched and... | |
 | Walter Ripman - 1920 - 408 pàgines
...to glow, 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 e'en his failings leaned to virtue's side : But in his duty prompt at every call, He watched and wept,... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1921 - 450 pàgines
...glow, And quite forgot their vices in their woe ; Careless their merits or their faults to scan, 161 His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings leaned to Virtue's side; But in his duty prompt at every call, He watched and wept,... | |
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