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... Report of the Board of Education - Página 124por Bombay (India : State). Board of Education - 1851Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1785 - 304 páginas
...began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And ev'n his failings lean'd to virtue's fide ; 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 triet, To tempt its new fledg'd offspring to the ikies ; He tried... | |
| 1785 - 316 páginas
...began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And ev'n his failing* Ican'd to virtue's fide ; But in his duty 'prompt at ev'ry call, He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt, for alfy And, as. a bird each fond endearment tries, To tempt its,new fledg'd offspring to the ikies ;... | |
| 1785 - 320 páginas
...began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And ev'n his failings lean'd to virtue's fide ; But in his duty prompt at ev'ry call, He watch'd and wept, he pray'dand felt, for all, And, as a bird each fond endearment tries, To tempt its new fledg'd offspring... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - 1791 - 510 páginas
...charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his priit, And cv'n his failings lean'd to Viitue's udc; But in his duty prompt at ev'ry call, He watch'd and wept, he pray'd, and felt foral And, as a bird each fond endearment tries. To tempt her new-fledg'd ofl'sj ring to the ikio,... | |
| 1792 - 112 páginas
...vices in their woe; Carelefs their merits or their faults to fcan, His pity gave ere charity began. THUS to relieve the wretched was his pride , And e'en his failings lean'd to virtue's fide; But in his duty prompt at ev'ry call, He watch'd and wept, he pray'd, and felt for all. And ,... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1800 - 192 páginas
...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...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 to the skies; He tried... | |
| Jacques Delille - 1800 - 284 páginas
...their woe ; K Careless their merits or their faults to scan, « His pity gave, ere charity began. « Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, « And...He watch'd and wept, he pray'd, and felt for all. « And, as a bird each fond endearment tries , « To tempt her new-fledg'd offspring to the skies;... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1802 - 130 páginas
...charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his prkle, And ev'n his failings lean'd to virtues fide ; But in his duty prompt at ev'ry call, He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt for all. And, as a laird each fond endearment tries, To tempt its nsw-fledg'd offspring to the Ikies ; lie tried... | |
| 1803 - 268 páginas
...fiziished ; though there remain in the mind a kind of distant expectation of something to come ; as, " Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en...lean'd to virtue's side • But in his duty prompt at every call, He watch'd and \vept, he pray'd and felt for all." GOLDSMITH. A PERIOD makes the fullest... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1804 - 114 páginas
...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...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,... | |
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