 | John Pierpont - Children's literature - 1828 - 320 pages
...wounds, or, tales of sorrow done, Shouldered his crutch, and showed how fields were won. Pleased with his guests, the good man 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... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 809 pages
...faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind'» concern ”я charity. Pope. Pleased with his guests the good man learned to glow. And quite forgot...their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Goldmith. The societies which were instituted in the cities of the Roman empire wer» united only by... | |
 | John Pierpont - Readers - 1829 - 290 pages
...wounds, or, tales of sorrow done, Shouldered his crutch, and showed how fields were won. Pleased with his guests, the good man 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... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - English poetry - 1830 - 256 pages
...Shoulder'd his crutch, and show'd how fields were won. Pleas'dwith his guests, the good man learn'd to glow, And quite forgot their vices in their woe...ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was bis pride, And ev'n his failings lean'd to Virtue's side ; But in his duty prompt, at every call, He... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...Shoulder'd his crutch, and show'd how fields were won. Pleas'd with his guests, the good man learn'd 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...wounds, or tales of sorrow done, Shouldered his crutch, und shewed how fields were WOL. Pleased with his ooked inwards, and found her there. I cannot say he is everywhere merit-* or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve; t lie wretched was... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1830 - 544 pages
...it was all that he asked to know. Like his own village pastor, he overflowed with benevolence, and ear. AN ELEGY, WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH- YARD. This is a very fine poem, but o This profuse and undistuiguishing liberality has sometimes been imputed to him as a fault; but it at... | |
 | Jews - 1920 - 694 pages
...76th year. " The long-remembered beggar was his guest, Whose beard descending 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... | |
 | Leslie J. Francis - Clergy - 1989 - 244 pages
...wounds, or tales of sorrow done, Shouldered his crutch, and show'd how fields were won; Pleased with his guests, the good man learned to glow, And quite forgot...their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. OLIVER GOLDSMITH (1728-1774) 53. We passed on after we left the forest through many pleasant villages... | |
 | Jacob Rader Marcus - Jews - 1989 - 974 pages
...pious never forgot that giving was a mitzvah, both a divine imperative and a religious opportunity: Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries schnorring flourished only to fall on evil... | |
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Wept o'er his wounds or tales of sorrow done, Shouldered his crutch, and showed how fields were won. Pleased with his guests, the good man learned to glow, "— And quite forgot their vices in their woe ; Careless their merits or their faults to scan,... 
