 | Nicholas Carlisle - 1828 - 352 oldal
...lands are to be appropriated to the purchase of Shrouds for Criminals, who should suffer at RingsThus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his...But in his duty prompt at every call, He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt for all. The Deserted Village. 4 Rep.vi./?. 118. EARLY NOTICE OF BREAD. AN... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1828 - 320 oldal
...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 at every call, He watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all: And, as a bird each fond endearment tries, To tempt its... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1829 - 290 oldal
...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 at every call, He watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all : And, as a bird each fond endearment tries, To tempt... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1830 - 544 oldal
...vice« in their woe ; Careless their merits, or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. uld be said, My heels eclipsed the honours of my head ; That I found humour in a piebald vest, Or ever wept, he pray'd and felt for all; And, as a bird each fond endearment tries, To tempt its new-fledged... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 oldal
...faults to scan, His 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 new-fledg'd... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - 256 oldal
...faults to scan, His pity gave 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 watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt, for all ; And, as a-'bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-fledg'd... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 oldal
...gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve; t lie wretched was his pride. And e'en his failings leaned faded form, and Solitude behind. 1 Mighty Victor, mighty Lor watched nnd wept, he prayed and felt for all ; And, as a bird each fond endearment tries, To tempt.... | |
 | Susan Ferrier - 1831 - 508 oldal
...read them ;" and Captain Malcolm went on: — " 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, and felt, and pray'd for all ; And as a bird each fond endearment tries, To tempt its new-fledged... | |
 | Mary Martha Sherwood - 1831 - 400 oldal
...present to the public, I shall conclude what I have now to say, in the beautiful lines of Goldsmith — " Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings lean'd to virtue's side." CHAPTER II. SNOWDON. Being the first memorandum, in point of date, which was found among the papers... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 oldal
...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 e'en his failings leaned to virtue's side; But in his duty, prompt at every call, He watched and wept, he prayed and... | |
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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 prayed and felt... 
