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, he pray'd and felt,... Half Tints: Table D'hōte and Drawing-room - Pągina 190per Addison Peale Russell - 1867 - 232 pąginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1822 - 194 pągines
...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, he pray'd and felt for all : And, as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 290 pągines
...pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings lear1'd to virtue's side; But in his duty prompt, at every call, He watch'd and wept, he pray'd aqd felt, for all: And, as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its... | |
| Charles Burton - 1823 - 234 pągines
...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, he pray'd and felt for all. And, as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt her... | |
| 1824 - 412 pągines
...brood, so beautifully expressed by an English poet, in his well-drawn picture of a pious teacher. '' He watched and wept — he prayed, and felt for all ; And as a hird each foud endearment tries To tempt its ntwfledgsd offspring to the skies. He tries each art —... | |
| John Newton, Richard Cecil - 1824 - 738 pągines
...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, To tempt... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pągines
...pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And even his failings Ican'd n endless error hurl'd: The glory, jest, and riddle of the watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt for all. And, as a bird each fond endearment tries, To tempt its... | |
| George Bull (bp. of St. David's.) - 1825 - 340 pągines
...admonished the young, consoled the mourner, and supplied the wants of the distressed. Thus — — In his duty prompt at every call, He watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all. — Goldsmith. Antinomianism, which had sprung out of the abuse of the principles defended by the Synod... | |
| Richard Cecil - 1825 - 476 pągines
...than to rise. VoL. I. 34* 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, To tempt... | |
| James M'Henry - 1825 - 348 pągines
...withdrew to repose. CHAPTER XI. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And etfn 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 To tempt hernete-jledged... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 476 pągines
...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, he pray'd and felt for all ; And, as a bird each fond endearment tries, To tempt... | |
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