| Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1837 - 538 pages
...or seek for power, By doctrines fashion'd to the varying hour ; Far other aims his heart had learnt to prize, More bent to raise the wretched than to...all the vagrant train, He chid their wanderings, but reliev'd their pain ; (2) The long-remember'd beggar was his guest, Whose beard descending swept his... | |
| Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1837 - 438 pages
...or seek for pow'r, By doctrines fashion'd to the varying hour; Far other aims his heart had learn 'd to prize, More bent to raise the wretched than to...was known to all the vagrant train, He chid their wand'rings, but reliev'd their pain ; The long-remember'd beggar was his guest, Whose beard descending... | |
| Samuel Worcester - 1837 - 264 pages
...Far other aims his heart had learned to prize, More bent to raise the wretched than to rise. 3. HU house was known to all the vagrant train, He chid...their wanderings, but relieved their pain ; The long remembered beggar was his guest, Whose beard descending swept his aged breast ; The ruined spendthrift,... | |
| Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1837 - 362 pages
...change his place ; Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for pow'r, By doctrines fashion'd to the varying hour; Far other aims his heart had learn'd to prize, More bent to raise the wretched than £o rise. His house was known to all the vagrant train, He chid their wand'rings, but reliev'd their... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 472 pages
...change his place; PDskilful he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashion'd to the varying hour; Far other aims his heart had learn'd to prize, More bent to raise the>wretched than to rise. His house was known to all the vagrant train, He chid their wanderings,... | |
| Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 pages
...or seek for power, By doctrines fashioned to the varying hour ; Far other aims his heart had learned to prize, More bent to raise the wretched than to...their wanderings, but relieved their pain, The long remembered beggar was his guest, Whose beard descending swept his aged breast ; The ruined spendthrift,... | |
| Fraternal organizations - 1838 - 488 pages
...poorest order, we shall not be far wrong when we apply to him the words of the poet Goldsmith : — " His house was known to all the vagrant train. He chid their wanderings, but relieved their pain : The long-remember'd beggar was his guest, Whose beard descending swept his aged breast ; The ruin'd spendthrift... | |
| James Wilson - Biography - 1838 - 372 pages
...AUTHORITY. The Gentleman's Magazine, for 1781. THE REV. EDWARD STOKES, THE BENEVOLENT BLIND CLERGYMAN. " His house was known to all the vagrant train, He chid their wanderings, but reliev'd their pain ; The long remember'd beggar was his guest, Whose beard descending swept his aged... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1839 - 550 pages
...change his place; Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for [rawer, By doctrines fashion'd to the varying hour; ceived his proposal with all the affability that could...fifty to spare, sir, I must be contented." — " Fifty lus aged breast; The ruin'd spendthrift, now no longer proud, ( 'l;iiii i'il kindred there, and had... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - Medicine in literature - 1839 - 360 pages
...change his place ; Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashion'd to the varying hour ; Far other aims his heart had learn'd to prize, More...all the vagrant train, He chid their wanderings, but reliev'd their pain, The long remember'd beggar was his guest, 1 Whose beard descending swept his aged... | |
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