 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1856 - 560 pages
...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...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.... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1857 - 428 pages
...change, his place. Unskilful he to fawn or seek for power, By doctrines fashioned to the varying hour : Far other aims his heart had learned to prize, More...chid their wanderings, but relieved their pain. The long-remembered beggar was his guest, Whose beard descending swept his aged breast ; The ruined spendthrift,... | |
 | Henry Harbaugh - History - 1857 - 430 pages
...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...; The broken soldier, kindly bade to stay, Sat by hi.< fire, and talked the night away ; Wept o'er his wounds, or tales of sorrow done, Shouldered his... | |
 | Epes Sargent - American literature - 1857 - 490 pages
...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...; The broken soldier, kindly bade to stay, Sat by bis fire, and bilked the night away ; Wept o'er his wounds, or, tiles of sorrow done, Shouldered his... | |
 | English poetry - 1857 - 334 pages
...or seek for power, By doctrines fashion'd to the varying hour ; Far other aims his heart had learn'd to prize, More bent to raise the wretched than to...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,... | |
 | Charles William Smith (professor of elocution.) - 1857 - 338 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...chid their wanderings, but relieved their pain. The long-remembered beggar was his guest, Whose beard descending swept his aged breast ; The ruined spendthrift,... | |
 | John Seely Hart - Readers - 1857 - 394 pages
...By doctrines fashioned to the varying hour; Far other aims his heart had learned to prize, More Dent to raise the wretched than to rise. His house was...chid their wanderings, but relieved their pain. The long-remembered beggar was his guest, Whose beard descending swept his aged breast; The ruined spendthrift,... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1858 - 608 pages
...his place ; Unskillful he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashioned to the varying hour ; Far other aims his heart had learned to prize ; More...chid their wanderings, but relieved their pain. The long-remembered beggar was his guest, Whose beard descending swept his aged breast; The ruined spendthrift... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1858 - 336 pages
...for power, [place ; By doctrines fashion'd to the varying hour ; Par other aims his heart had learn'd to prize. More bent to raise the wretched than to...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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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... 
