 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, he prayed and felt,...  The Cambridge Examiner - Page 2781883Full view - About this book
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - Elocution - 1845 - 492 pages
...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, he felt and pray'd... | |
 | English literature - 1845 - 614 pages
...faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en ce to prove that she loves you for yourself. There is in every t CVPJV call, He watched and wept, he prayed and felt, for allAnd, as a bird each fond endearment tries... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1847 - 290 pages
...their wo. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings leaned to virtue's side. 9 But in his duty prompt at every call, He watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all j And, as a bird each fond endearment tries, To tempt her new-fledged offspring to the skies, He tried... | |
 | William Harvey Wells - English language - 1847 - 228 pages
...blank verse. Rhyme is the correspondence of sounds in the last words or syllables of verses ;* as, " Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And even his failings leaned to virtue's side." — Goldsmith. For two syllables to form a full and perfect rhyme, it is necessary that the vowel be... | |
 | Jews - 1920 - 694 pages
...swept his aged breast, Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave, ere charity began. But in his duty prompt at every call He watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all." [B. I, No. 82l MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS RELATING TO JEWS IN WARS OF UNITED STATES AND CORRESPONDENCE WITH... | |
 | Robert Moats Miller - Biography & Autobiography - 1985 - 637 pages
...member of the Riverside flock, Fosdick's response was akin to Goldsmith's portrait of a shepherd : "But in his duty prompt at every call, / He watched and wept and prayed and felt for all." The thousands of services he conducted were simple yet stately; the spirit... | |
 | Robert H. Bremner - Social Science - 260 pages
...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...call, He watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all.10 Early in William Cowper's "Charity" (1782) the poet advises students of the subject: Who seeks... | |
 | Charles R. Henery - Anglican Communion - 1995 - 176 pages
...hospitable to beggars, spendthrifts and wounded soldiers. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride And e'n 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... | |
 | American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia - Catholics - 1922 - 374 pages
...know not. It certainly did not please his people, who applied to him the words of the poet : ". . . 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 her new-fledged offspring to the skies, He tried... | |
 | Gordon Mursell - Religion - 2001 - 604 pages
...mercantilist greed: Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings leaned to virtues 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 new-fledged offspring to the skies, He tried... | |
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