 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'hôte and Drawing-room - Pàgina 190per Addison Peale Russell - 1867 - 232 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | William Harvey Wells - 1847 - 228 pàgines
...verse. Rhyme is the correspondence of sounds in the last words or syllables of verses ;* as, " Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And even his failings leaned to virtue's side." — Goldsmith. For two syllables to form a full and perfect rhyme, it is necessary that the vowel be... | |
 | Book - 1847 - 206 pàgines
...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... | |
 | English poets - 1847 - 144 pàgines
...simile they contain : — " 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, and prayed, and felt for all ; And as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt... | |
 | Book - 1847 - 216 pàgines
...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... | |
 | 1848 - 592 pàgines
...the beautiful gjrtrait of a faithful minister drawn by a ritish poet's hand may fully apply — ' And in his duty prompt at every call, He watched and wept, he pray'd and felt for all. And as a bird each fond endearment tries, To tempt its new-fledged offspring... | |
 | John Forster - 1848 - 740 pàgines
...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... | |
 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 pàgines
...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... | |
 | John Forster - 1848 - 1294 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Joachim Fernau - 1848 - 736 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1849 - 446 pàgines
...their woe ; Careless their merits or their faults to scan, 20 His pity gave ere charity began. Thus, to relieve the wretched was his pride, And even his...He watched and wept, he prayed and felt, for all. 25 And, as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-fledged offspring to the skies, He tried... | |
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