 | Pierce Egan - 1819 - 398 páginas
...or seek for pow'r, By doctrines fashion'd to the varying hour. Far other aims his heart had leara'd to prize, More bent to raise the wretched than to...was known to all the vagrant train, He chid their wand'rings, but reliev'd their pain. But a facetious poet (ANSTEY) seems to have been more apposite... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1820 - 488 páginas
...or seek for power, By doctrines fashion'd to the varying hour ; Far other aims his heart had learh'd to prize, More bent to raise the wretched than to...was known to all the vagrant train, He chid their wand'rings, but reliev'd their pain ; The long remember'd beggar was his guest, Whose beard descending... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1820 - 636 páginas
...ere had chang'd, nor wish'd to change his plare ; Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power, . , .. jjy doctrines fashion'd to the varying hour ; Far other...to prize) " More bent to raise the wretched than to rUe. • • . , . . , His house was known to ul 1 the. vagrant traia, He chid their wanderings, but... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 446 páginas
...forty pounds a-year ; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had chang'd,nor wish'd to- change his place ; Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for...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... | |
 | John Bowdler - 1821 - 510 páginas
...race, Pv7or e'er had chang'd, nor wish'd to change his place. Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for pow'r, By doctrines fashion'd to the varying hour ; Far other...was known to all the vagrant train, He chid their wand'rings, but reliev'd their pain. The long remember'd beggar was his guest, Whose beard descending... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 314 páginas
...race, Nor e'er had chapg'd, nor wish'd to change his place; Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for pow'r, By doctrines fashion'd to the varying hour; Far other...was known to all the vagrant train, He chid their wand'rings, but reliev'd their pain; The long-remember'd beggar was his guest, Whose beard descending... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 290 páginas
...race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wish'd to change his Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power, [place; By doctrines fashion'd to the varying hour; Far other...beggar was his guest, Whose beard descending swept bis aged breast; The ruiu'd spendthrift, now no longer proud, Claim'd kindred there, and had his claims... | |
 | Charles Burton - 1823 - 234 páginas
...with forty pounds a year; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had chang'd, nor wish'd to change his place : Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for...was known to all the vagrant train, He chid their wand'rings, but reliev'd their pain : The long remember'd beggar was his guest, Whose beard descending... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 páginas
...a-year ; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had chang'd norwish'd to change hisplace; oose unguarded hours they take, Not that themselves...grant that those can conquer, these can cheat ; Tí- wand'rings, but reliev'd their pain ; The long-remember'd beggar was his guest, Whose beard descending... | |
 | Richard Cecil - 1825 - 476 páginas
...have been more accurately delineated than by the following lines in his " Deserted Village :" — " Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines...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... | |
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... country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year. Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed... 
