| Mary Martha Sherwood - 1831 - 400 páginas
...the public, I shall conclude what I have now to say, in the beautiful lines of Goldsmith — " Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings lean'd to virtue's side." CHAPTER II. SNOWDON. Being the first memorandum, in point of date, which was found among the papers... | |
| Richard Brindley Hone - 1833 - 414 páginas
...His home was known to all the vagrant train, He chid their wandering, but relieved their pain. ***** But in his duty prompt, at every call He watch'd and wept, he prayed and felt for all : And, as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-fledged offspring... | |
| Richard Hiley - 1834 - 188 páginas
...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...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,... | |
| Andrew Thomson - 1835 - 302 páginas
...wretched was his pride^ And even his failings leant to virtue's side ; • But in his duty prompt to every call, He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt for all. And as a bird each fond endearment tries, To tempt the new-fledg'd offspring to the skies, He tried... | |
| Sir Henry John Newbolt - 1922 - 1032 páginas
...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... | |
| Caroline Miles Hill - 1923 - 888 páginas
...pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en 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... | |
| Harry Morgan Ayres, Frederick Morgan Padelford - 1924 - 942 páginas
...pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings leaned s sons watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all; And, as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its... | |
| Lennox Robinson - 1925 - 370 páginas
...man learned to 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...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 to the skies, He tried... | |
| Lennox Robinson - 1925 - 368 páginas
...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...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 to the skies, He tried... | |
| 1926 - 780 páginas
...pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings leaned 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 to the skies, He tried... | |
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