 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 274 pages
...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... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 498 pages
...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 offspring... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1819 - 120 pages
...pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve th,e wretched was his pride,. And evea his failings leanM to virtue's side; But in his duty prompt at every call, He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt, for all.r And, as a bird each fond endearment tries, To tempt its new-fledg'd offspring... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1820 - 488 pages
...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...his duty prompt at every call, He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt for all ; And, as a bird tach fond endearment tries, To tempt its new-fledg'd offspring... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1820 - 636 pages
...Hi» 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 watcu'd and wept, ,he;pray'd and felt, for all* And, as a bird each fond: endearment tries, , . .•".''... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 446 pages
...sorrow done, Shoulder'd his crutch, and shew'd how fields were won, 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 pray'd and felt for all ; And, as a bird each fond endearment tries, To tempt... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 236 pages
...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 Bowdler - Hymns, English - 1821 - 510 pages
...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 ev'ry call, He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt for all. And, as a bird each fond endearment tries,... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 314 pages
...faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. 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 ev'ry call, He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt, for all: And, as a bird each fond endearment tries... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Bible - 1822 - 194 pages
...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...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-fledged offspring... | |
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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 pray'd and felt for... 
