 | Alexander Winton Buchan - 1854 - 332 pages
...Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change his place. Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashioned...Far 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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, William Collins, George Gilfillan, Thomas Warton - 1854 - 354 pages
...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 rise. His house was...He chid their wanderings, but relieved their pain y / The long-remember'd beggar was his guest, 151 Whose beard descending swept his aged breast ; The... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1855 - 632 pages
...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 rise. His house was...chid their wanderings, but relieved their pain : The long-remcmber'd beggar was his guest, Whose beard descending swept his aged breast ; THE NATIONAL MAGAZINE.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1855 - 582 pages
...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 rise. His house was...chid their wanderings, but relieved their pain ; The long-remember'd beggar was his guest, Whose beard descending swept his agod breast ; The rnin'd spendthrift,... | |
 | Anne Bowman - 1856 - 316 pages
...doctrines fashion'd to the varying hour ; Far other aims his heart had learn'd to prize, More skill'd to raise the wretched than to rise. — His house...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,... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1856 - 518 pages
...from towns he ran liis godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change, his place ; Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashioned...Far 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... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1856 - 134 pages
...from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e*cr had changed, iior wished to change his place ; Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashioned...Far 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... | |
 | Bridgewater (Mass.) - 1856 - 198 pages
...from towns he ran his godly race, ' Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change, his place. Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashioned...other aims his heart had learned to prize, — More bent to raise the wretched than to rise. And as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-fledged... | |
 | Bridgewater (Mass.) - 1856 - 172 pages
...from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change, his place. Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashioned...other aims his heart had learned to prize, — More bent to raise the wretched than to rise. And as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-fledged... | |
 | William Sherwood - 1856 - 466 pages
...from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change his place : Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashioned...Far 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... | |
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A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change, his place... 
