 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
 | George Croly - 1850 - 442 pàgines
...in their wo ; 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 leaned to virtue's side ; But in his duty prompt nt every call, He watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all : And, as a bird each fond endearment... | |
 | Edward Everett - 1859 - 872 pàgines
...solemn fast of preparation, and preached to them the last sermon they were to hear from his lips : — prompt at every call, He watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all. • The authorship of this paper rests upon the authority of Hubbard, who speaks of it as a thing "... | |
 | 1850 - 604 pàgines
...so much of the genuine essence of poetry. How perfect, in every way, are such lines as these, — " But 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 Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1850 - 608 pàgines
...so much of the genuine essence of poetry. How perfect, in every way, are such lines as these, — " pray'd and felt for all ; And, as a bird each fond endoarment trie?, To tempt its new-fledged offspring... | |
 | 1850 - 806 pàgines
...much of the genuine essence of poetry. How perfect, in every way, are such lines as these, — ••' But in his duty prompt at every call, He watched and wept. he pray M and felt fox all; And, as a bird each fond endearment tries, To tempt its new-fledged offspring... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1850 - 318 pàgines
...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 felt and pray'd for all; And, as a bird each fond endearment tries, To tempt its... | |
 | Walter McLeod - 1850 - 170 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... | |
 | 1851 - 724 pàgines
...bent to raise the wretched than to rise. ***** 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, he pray'd and felt for all ; And, as a bird eich fond endearment tries. To tempt its new-fltdged offspring... | |
 | 1851 - 1220 pàgines
...« * * * Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings leaned to virtue's aide ; But in his duty prompt at every call, He watched, and wept, he prayM and felt for all ; And, aa a bird eich fond endearment tries, To tempt its new-fledged offspring... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 160 pàgines
...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 felt, for all And, as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its... | |
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