 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1830 - 544 pages
...other aims his heart had learn'd to prize, More bent to raise the wretched than to rise. His house remember'd beggar was his guest, Whose beard descending swept his aged breast; The ruin'd spendthrift,... | |
 | Susan Ferrier - English fiction - 1831 - 358 pages
...acquaintance, the Village Clergyman," said Captain Malcolm, reading the following lines : — - " His house was known to all the vagrant train, He chid their wanderings, but relieved their pain ; The long-remember'd beggar was his guest, Whose beard descending swept his aged breast ; The ruin'd spendthrift,... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...other aims his heart had learned to prize — More bent to raise the wretched than to rise. His house was known to all the vagrant train ; He chid their wanderings, but relieved their pain. The long-remembered beggar was his guest, Whose beard, descending, swept his aged breast; The ruined spendthrift,... | |
 | 1836 - 784 pages
...other aims his heart had learned to prize, More bent to raise the wretched, than to rise. ! I: . house was known to all the vagrant train, He chid their wanderings, but relieved their pain. * • • • • V • Thus to relieve the wretched wai his pride, And e'en his failings leaned to... | |
 | Samuel Worcester - 1837 - 264 pages
...other aims his heart had learned to prize, More bent to raise the wretched than to rise. 3. HU house was known to all the vagrant train, He chid their...relieved their pain ; The long remembered beggar was his guest, Whose beard descending swept his aged breast ; The ruined spendthrift, now no longer proud,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 472 pages
...other aims his heart had learn'd to prize, More bent to raise the>wretched than to rise. His house was known to all the vagrant train, He chid their wanderings, but relieved their pain,; The long remember'd beggar was his guest, Whose beard descending swept his aged breast; ' * The ruin'd spendthrift,... | |
 | Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 pages
...other aims his heart had learned to prize, More bent to raise the wretched than to rise. His house was known to all the vagrant train, He chid their...relieved their pain, The long remembered beggar was his guest, Whose beard descending swept his aged breast ; The ruined spendthrift, now no longer proud,... | |
 | Fraternal organizations - 1838 - 488 pages
...order, we shall not be far wrong when we apply to him the words of the poet Goldsmith : — " His house was known to all the vagrant train. He chid their wanderings, but relieved their pain : The long-remember'd beggar was his guest, Whose beard descending swept his aged breast ; The ruin'd spendthrift... | |
 | James Wilson - Biography - 1838 - 372 pages
...Gentleman's Magazine, for 1781. THE REV. EDWARD STOKES, THE BENEVOLENT BLIND CLERGYMAN. " His house was known to all 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 - 1839 - 242 pages
...Far other aims his heart had learnt to prize, More bent to raise the wretched than to rise. His house was known to all the vagrant train, He chid their wanderings, but relieved their pain ; The long-remember'd beggar was his guest, Whose beard descending swept his aged breast ; The ruin'd spendthrift,... | |
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His house was known to all the vagrant train ; He chid their wanderings, but relieved their pain... 
