 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1842 - 429 pages
...or seek for power , By doctrines fashion'd to the varying hour; Far other aims his heart had learnt to prize , More bent to raise the wretched than to...the vagrant train , He chid their wanderings , but reliev'd their pain The long-remember'd beggar was his guest, Whose beard descending swept his aged... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1842 - 429 pages
...doctrines fashion'd to the varying hour; Far other aims his heart had learn'd to prize, More skill'd to raise the wretched than to rise. His house was known to all the vagrant train, He chid their wand'rings, but relieved their pain ; The long remember'd beggar was his guest, Whose beard descending... | |
 | Children's poetry - 1843 - 172 pages
...or seek for power By doctrines fashioned to the varying hour ; Far other aims his heart had learned to prize, More bent to raise the wretched than to...He chid their wanderings, but relieved their pain ; The long-remembered beggar was his guest, Whose beard descending swept his aged breast ; The ruined... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1843
...doctrines fashion'd to the varying hour; Far other aims his heart had learn'd to prize, More skill to raise the wretched than to rise. His house was known to all the vagrant train, He chid their wand'rings but reliev'd their pain. The long remember'd beggar was his guest, Whose beard descending... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 319 pages
...dispossess the swain; . . . She only left of all the harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. His house was known to all the vagrant train; He chid their wanderings, but relieved their pain; . . . Yes! let the rich deride, the proud disdain These simple blessings of the lowly train; . . .... | |
 | Leslie J. Francis - Clergy - 1989 - 237 pages
...or seek for power, By doctrines fashioned to the varying hour; Far other aims his heart had learned to prize More bent to raise the wretched than to rise....all the vagrant train, He chid their wanderings, but reliev'd their pain; The long remembered beggar was his guest, Where beard descending swept his aged... | |
 | Robert H. Bremner - Social Science - 1996 - 241 pages
...doctrines fashioned to the varying hour; Far other aims his heart had learned to prize, More skilled to raise the wretched than to rise. His house was...He chid their wanderings, but relieved their pain; The long-remembered beggar was his guest, Whose beard descending swept his aged breast; The ruined... | |
 | Andrew Carpenter - Poetry - 1998 - 623 pages
...doctrines fashioned to the varying hour; 90 Far other aims his heart had learned to prize, More skilled to raise the wretched than to rise. His house was...He chid their wanderings, but relieved their pain; The long remembered beggar was his guest, Whose beard descending swept his aged breast; The ruined... | |
 | George O'Brien - Fiction - 1957 - 492 pages
...doctrines fashioned to the varying hour; Far other aims his heart had learned to prize, More skilled to raise the wretched than to rise. His house was...He chid their wanderings, but relieved their pain: The long-remember'd beggar was his guest, Whose beard descending swept his aged breast; The ruined... | |
 | Nicolas H. Nelson - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 267 pages
...doctrines fashioned to the varying hour; Far other aims his heart had learned to prize, More skilled to raise the wretched than to rise. His house was...He chid their wanderings, but relieved their pain (139-150) The wilderness is taking over the village where civilization used to be, with the village... | |
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