 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1820 - 488 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,... | |
 | Friedrich Johann Jacobsen - 1820 - 796 pagine
...to gfou; 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 Ais failings lean'd to virtue's side: But , in hin duty prompt at ev'ry call, ^ He watch' d and... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1820 - 636 pagine
...Pleas'd with his guests, the good man learn'd to glo\ry And quite forgot their vices in their woe ; 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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 236 pagine
...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,... | |
 | John Bowdler - 1821 - 510 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 ev'ry call, He watch'd and wept,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1822 - 194 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,... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 290 pagine
...learn'd to 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 lear1'd to virtue's side; But in his duty prompt, at every call, He watch'd and wept,... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pagine
...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, Aud ev'n his failings lean'd to Virtue's side : But in his duty prompt at ev'ry call, • He watch'd... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pagine
...learn'd to And quite forgot their vices in their woe; Careless their merits or their faults to scan, eated half to rise, and half to fall ; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to a even his failings Ican'd to virtue's side; But in his duty prompt at every call, He watch'd and wept,... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pagine
...And quite forgot their vices in their wo ; Careless their merits or their faults to scan, Hi» pitv gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, End even his failings Ican'd to virtue's side ; ut in his duly prompt at every call, He watch'd and... | |
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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... 
