| John Newton, Richard Cecil - 1824 - 738 páginas
...hour: Far other aims bis heart had learn'd to prize, More bent to raise the wretched than to rise. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings lean'd to Virtue's side ; But, in his duty prompt at every call, He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt, for all : And,... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 páginas
...learn'd to And quite forgot their vices in their woe; Careless their merits or their faults to scan, eated half to rise, and half to fall ; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to a even his failings Ican'd to virtue's side; But in his duty prompt at every call, He watch'd and wept,... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 510 páginas
...And quite forgot their vices in their wo ; Careless their merits or their faults to scan, Hi» pitv gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, End even his failings Ican'd to virtue's side ; ut in his duly prompt at every call, He watch'd and... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1825 - 310 páginas
...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 the...his pride, And e'en his failings lean'd to virtue's side : But, in his duty prompt at ev'ry call, He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt for all : And,... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 476 páginas
...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...his pride, And e'en his failings lean'd to virtue's side ; But in his duty prompt at every call, He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt for all ; And,... | |
| Jonathan Duncan - 1825 - 274 páginas
...His house was known to all the vagrant train, He chid their wanderings, but relieved their pain. . Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings lean'd to virtue's side ; But in bis duty, prompt at every call, He watcli'd, he wept, he pray'd, he felt for all : And... | |
| Richard Cecil - 1825 - 476 páginas
...other aims his heart had learn'd to prize, More bent to raise the wretched than to rise. VoL. I. 34* Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings lean'd to Virtue's side ; But, in his duty, prompt at every call, He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt, for all : And,... | |
| 1826 - 300 páginas
...to And quite forgot their vices in their wo ; [glow, Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And ev'n his failings lean'd to virtue's side ; But in his duty prompt, at every call, He watch'd and wept,... | |
| William Enfield - 1827 - 412 páginas
...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 the wretched was his pride, And ev'n his failings lean'd to Virtue's side: But in his duty prompt at ev'ry call, He watch'd and wept,... | |
| John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 páginas
...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 the wretched was his pride; And even his failings lean'd to virtue's side; But, in his duty prompt at every call, He watch'd and wept,... | |
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