 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1804 - 114 pages
...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...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,... | |
 | English poetry - 1814 - 310 pages
...doctrines fashion 'd to the varying hour; Far other aims his heart had Iearn'd°to prize, More bent to raise the wretched than to rise. His house was...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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 274 pages
...all the country dear. And passing rich with forty pounds a year. Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change his...chid their wanderings, but relieved their pain: The long-remembered beggar was his guest, Whose beard descending swept his aged breast; The ruined spendthrift,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 236 pages
...from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change his place ; Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashioned...Far other aims his heart had learned to prize. More bent to raise the wretched than to rise. His house was known to al! the vagrant train, He chid their... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 290 pages
...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...their wanderings, but relieved their pain; The long remember'd beggar was his guest, Whose beard descending swept bis aged breast; The ruiu'd spendthrift,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Bible - 1822 - 194 pages
...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...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,... | |
 | Christian literature, English - 1847 - 390 pages
...Life." He always appeared to me to be fonder of being among the poor than among the rich. " Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashioned...Far other aims his heart had learned to prize, More bent to raise the wretched than to rise." I have seen him at the Sunday-schools, when the eyes of the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1825 - 476 pages
...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...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,... | |
 | Jonathan Duncan - Dissenters, Religious - 1825 - 274 pages
...doctrines fashion'd to the varying hour : Far other aims his heart had Icarn'd to prize, More bent to raise the wretched than to rise. His house was...He chid their wanderings, but relieved their pain. . Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings lean'd to virtue's side ; But in... | |
 | John Pierpont - Children's literature - 1828 - 320 pages
...year; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change, his pi ,ce ; Unpractised he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines...other aims his heart had learned to prize,— More bent to raise the wretched than to rise. The ruined spendthrift, now no longer proud, Claimed kindred... | |
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A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change, his place... 
