 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 656 pagine
...learn'd to And quite forgot their vices in their woe ; Careless their merits or their faults to soan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And ev'n his failings leao'd to virtue's side , Bat in his duty prompt, at ev'ry call. He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and... | |
 | John Sabine - 1810 - 308 pagine
...to glow, And quite forgot their 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 lean'd to virtue's sidej But, in his duty prompt at ev'ry call, He watch'd and wept,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1812 - 470 pagine
...to glow, And quite forgot their 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 lean'd to Virtue's side; But in his duty prompt at every call, He watch'd and wept,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1813 - 124 pagine
...tcf glow, And quite forgot their 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 lean'd to virtue's side, But in his duty prompt at every call, He watch'd and wept,... | |
 | James M'Donald - 1815 - 170 pagine
....-' ' • And quite forgot their 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 even his failings lean'd to Virtue's side : •''-•;,. But in his duty prompt at every call, '".... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1816 - 298 pagine
...to glow, And quite forgot their vices in their wo : Carelefs their merits or their faults to fc.in, 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 every call, He watch'd and wept,... | |
 | Elizabeth Tomkins - 1817 - 276 pagine
...to glow, And quite forgot their 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 lean'd to virtue's side ; But in his duty prompt at every call, He watch'd and wept,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 274 pagine
...learned to glow, And quite forgot their vices in their wo; Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His 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,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 482 pagine
...to glow, And quite forgot their 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 even his failings lean'd to virtue's side ; But in his duty prompt at every call, He watch'd and wept,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1819 - 120 pagine
...to glow, And quite forget their vices in their woe ; Careless their merits or their units to scau, His 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,... | |
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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 leaned to virtue's side... 
