 | John Forster - 1848 - 740 pages
...other aims his heart had learn'd to prize, More siill'd 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-remcmber'd beggar was his guest, Whose beard descending swept his aged breast ; The ruin'd spendthrift,... | |
 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 pages
...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 wanderings, but reliev'd their pain ; The long remember'd beggar was his guest, Whose beard descending swept his aged... | |
 | Georges Hardinge Champion - 1849 - 548 pages
...had learned to prize, More bent to raise thé wretched than to rise. His house was known to ail thé vagrant train; He chid their wanderings, but relieved their pain. The long remembered beggar was his guest, \Vhose beard descendingswept his aged breast; The ruined spendlhrift now no longer proud, The... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - Elocution - 1849 - 446 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, 10 Whose beard, descending, swept his aged breast ; The ruined... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1850 - 442 pages
...other aims his heart had learnt to prize, More skilled 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,... | |
 | Walter McLeod - 1850 - 170 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... | |
 | Edward Everett - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1859 - 872 pages
...will live forever on the pages of Goldsmith, and in the heart of the Anglo-Saxon reader. " His house was known to all the vagrant train, He chid their wanderings, but relieved their pain. * Trenthnm Hall, the seat of the Duke of Sutherland to Staffordshire. The long remembered beggar was... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1850 - 558 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 reliev'd their pain ;J * [These lines are supposed to apply to a female, named Catherine Geraghty.... | |
 | William Chambers - Children's poetry - 1851 - 200 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,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1851 - 400 pages
...the Deserted Village we have another picture of his father and his father's fireside : " 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 ruin'd spendthrift,... | |
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His house was known to all the vagrant train ; He chid their wanderings, but relieved their pain... 
