| John Bell - 1807 - 346 pages
...relief, He judg'd himself accomplice with the thief. Wid? was his parish ; not contracted close 60 In streets, but here, and there, a straggling house...request,) To serve the sick ; to succour the distress'd : Templing, on foot, alone, without affright, The dangers of a dark tempestuous night, . 64 All this,... | |
| John Dryden - English literature - 1808 - 500 pages
...; Intrusted riches, to relieve the poor ; Who, should they steal, for want of his relief, He judged himself accomplice with the thief. Wide was his parish...without request, To serve the sick, to succour the distressed ; Tempting on foot alone, without affright, The dangers of a dark tempestuous night. All... | |
| John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 506 pages
...; Intrusted riches, to relieve the poor ; Who, should they steal, for want of his relief, He judged himself accomplice with the thief. Wide was his parish...without request, To serve the sick, to succour the distressed; Tempting on foot alone, without affright, The dangers of a dark tempestuous night. AH this,... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 664 pages
...he said, and preachers of the word, Were only stewards of their sovereign lord; Nothing was theirs ; but all the public store: Intrusted riches, to relieve...contracted close In streets, but here and there a stragglingr house ; Yet still he was at hand, without request, To serve the sick ; to succitur thedistress'd:... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 664 pages
...thief. more, And prais'da priest contented to be poor. Wide was his parish ; not contracted close la streets, but here and there a straggling house; Yet...without affright, The dangers of a dark tempestuous nierht. ' All this, the good aid man perform'd alone, Nor spar'd his pains ; for curate he had none.... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 620 pages
...store: Intrusted riches, to relieve the poor. Who, should they steal, for want of his relief, He judg'd himself accomplice with the thief. Wide was his parish...house ; Yet still he was at hand, without request, To sene the sick ; to succour the distress'd: Tempting, on foot, alone, without affright, The dangers... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 612 pages
...: Intrusted riches, to relieve the poor. Who, should they steal, for want of his relief, He judg'd himself accomplice with the thief. Wide was his parish...contracted close In streets, but here and there a stragglir house ; Yet still he was at hand, without request, To serve the sick ; to succour the distressed... | |
| Maria Edgeworth - 1811 - 402 pages
...never sued, or curs'd with bell and book. Wide was his parish, not contracted close In streets—but here and there a straggling house. Yet still he was at hand, without request, To serve the sick, and succour the distress'd. The proud he tam'd, the penitent he cheer'd, Nor to rebuke the rich offender... | |
| Massachusetts Historical Society - Massachusetts - 1815 - 624 pages
...when speaking of the respectable village pastor, in the words of the oldest of the English poets, •' Wide was his parish ; not contracted close '' In streets, but here and there a straggling house." The people of this place are, almost wholly, descendants of the first planters of Plymouth. The most... | |
| Friedrich Johann Jacobsen - English poetry - 1820 - 796 pages
...to draw. TJie tithes his parish freely paid he took; But never sued , or curs'd with bell and book. Wide was his parish , not contracted close In streets — but here and there a straggling houst. Yet still he was at hand , without request, To serve the sick , and succour the distress'd.... | |
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