 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1842 - 446 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...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... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1843 - 320 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 felt and pray'd for all. And, as a bird each fond endearment tries, To tempt its new fledg'd... | |
 | H. D. - 1843 - 438 oldal
...live is Christ — to die is gain. MONTGOMERY. 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 its new-fledg'd... | |
 | Charles Townsend Copeland - 1926 - 1744 oldal
...harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, Y9` 4 A leaned to Virtue's side; But in his duty prompt at every call, And still where many a garden flower... | |
 | Lancaster County Historical Society (Pa.) - 1927 - 824 oldal
...realized to the full the "village preacher" so beautifully depicted in Goldsmith's "Deserted Village," "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 felt... | |
 | Caroline Miles Hill - 1928 - 888 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 felt... | |
 | Derbyshire Archaeological Society - 1883 - 252 oldal
...the village preacher described by Goldsmith, that " To relieve the wretched was his pride, And ev'n his failings lean'd to virtue's side ; But in his duty prompt at ev'ry call, He watch'd and wept—he pray'd—and felt for all ; And, as a bird each fond endearment... | |
 | Robert H. Bremner - 260 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.10 Early in William Cowper's "Charity" (1782) the poet... | |
 | Charles R. Henery - 1995 - 176 oldal
...spendthrifts and wounded soldiers. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride And e'n his failings leaned 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... | |
 | Gordon Mursell - 2001 - 604 oldal
...village paints a vivid portrait of the village priest, threatened by depopulation and mercantilist greed: Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings leaned to virtues side; But in his duty prompt at every call, He watched and wept, he prayed and felt... | |
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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... 
