 | Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 264 pages
...won. Pleas'd with his guests, the good man learn'd to glow, And quite forgot their vices in their wo; Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His...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,... | |
 | John Pierpont - Children's literature - 1828 - 320 pages
...Wept o'er his wounds, or, tales of sorrow done, Shouldered his crutch, and showed how fields were won. Pleased with his guests, the good man learned to glow, And quite forgot their vices in their wo; Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 809 pages
...Atterbury. In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind'» concern ¡я charity. Pope. Pleased with his guests the good man learned to glow....their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Goldmith. The societies which were instituted in the cities of the Roman empire wer» united only by... | |
 | John Pierpont - Readers - 1829 - 290 pages
...Wept o'er his wounds, or, tales of sorrow done, Shouldered his crutch, and showed how fields were won. Pleased with his guests, the good man learned to glow, And quite forgot their vices in their wo ; Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - English poetry - 1830 - 256 pages
...Shoulder'd his crutch, and show'd how fields were won. Pleas'dwith his guests, the good man learn'd to glow, And quite forgot their vices in their woe...ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was bis pride, And ev'n his failings lean'd to Virtue's side ; But in his duty prompt, at every call, He... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...Wept o'er his wounds, or tales of sorrow done, Shouldered his crutch, und shewed how fields were WOL. ead nature : he looked inwards, and found her there. I cannot say he is everywhere merit-* or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve; t lie wretched was... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...Shoulder'd his crutch, and show'd how fields were won. Pleas'd with his guests, the good man learn'd 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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1830 - 544 pages
...it was all that he asked to know. Like his own village pastor, he overflowed with benevolence, and ear. AN ELEGY, WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH- YARD. This is a very fine poem, but o This profuse and undistuiguishing liberality has sometimes been imputed to him as a fault; but it at... | |
 | John Pierpont - Readers - 1831 - 294 pages
...won. Pleased with his guests, the good man learned to glow, And quite forgot their vices in their wo ; Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His...charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his prider And even his failings leaned to virtue's side : But, in his duty prompt at every call, He watched... | |
 | Joseph Emerson - Elocution - 1832 - 122 pages
...his crutch, and shew'd how fields were won. [to glow, Pleas'd with his guests, the good man learn'd And quite forgot their vices in their woe ; Careless their merits or their faults to scan, 25 His pity gave, ere charity began. And, as a bird each fond endearment tries, To tempt her new fledg'd... | |
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Wept o'er his wounds or tales of sorrow done, Shouldered his crutch, and showed how fields were won. Pleased with his guests, the good man learned to glow, And quite forgot their vices in their woe ; Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His... 
