 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 - Pągina 197editat per - 1771Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Lindley Murray - 1816 - 286 pągines
...to glow, And quite forgot their vices in their wo : Carelefs their merits or their faults to fc.in, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings lean'd to virtue's fide : But, in his duty prompt at every call, He watch'd and wept,... | |
 | Elizabeth Tomkins - 1817 - 260 pągines
...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,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1817 - 166 pągines
...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 ev'n his failings lean'd to virtue's side ; But in his duty prompt, at ev'ry call, He watch'd and wept,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1819
...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 even 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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1819 - 108 pągines
...to glow, And quite forget their vices in their woe ; Careless their merits or their units to scau, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve th,e wretched was his pride,. And evea his failings leanM to virtue's side; But in his duty prompt at every call, He watch'd and wept,... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1820
...Pleas'd with his guests, the good man learn'd to glo\ry And quite forgot their vices in their woe ; Hi» pity gave ere charity began. . ;• ', Thus to relieve...the wretched was his pride^. .And even his failings lean'd to Virtue's side; . „ ;But in his duty prompt at every call, ' ^ He watcu'd and wept, ,he;pray'd... | |
 | Friedrich Johann Jacobsen - 1820 - 741 pągines
...to gfou; 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 Ais failings lean'd to virtue's side: But , in hin duty prompt at ev'ry call, ^ He watch' d and... | |
 | John Bowdler - 1821 - 468 pągines
...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 even his failings lean'd to virtue's side ; But in his duty prompt at ev'ry call, He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 807 pągines
...learn'd to 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; But in his duty prompt, at ev'ry call, He watch'd and wept,... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822
...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 ev'n his failings lean'd to virtue's side ; But in his duty prompt, at every call, He watch'd and wept,... | |
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