 | Washington Irving - 1851 - 402 pagina’s
...Pleased with his guests, the good man learned to glow, And quite forgot their vices in their woe ; Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began." / The family of the worthy pastor consisted of five sons aud three daughters. Henry, the eldest, was... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 pagina’s
...Pleased with his guests, the good man learned to glow, And quite forgot their vices in tht'ir woe ; 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 leaned to virtue's side ; But, in... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 160 pagina’s
...Pleas'd with his guests, the good man learn'd 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 wretched was his pride, And even his failings lean'd to virtue's side — But in... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 162 pagina’s
...Pleas'd with his guests, the good man learn'd 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 wretched was his pride, And even his failings lean'd to virtue's side — But in... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1851 - 400 pagina’s
...Pleased with his guests, the good man learned to glow, And quite forgot their vices in their woe ; Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began." The family of the worthy pastor consisted of five sons and three daughters. Henry, the eldest, was... | |
 | Class-book - 1852 - 152 pagina’s
...Pleas'd with his guests, the good man learn'd 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 wretched was his pride, And even his failings lean'd to virtue's side. But in his... | |
 | 1920 - 694 pagina’s
...76th year. " The long-remembered beggar was his guest, Whose beard descending swept his aged breast, Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave, ere charity began. But in his duty prompt at every call He watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all." [B. I, No. 82l... | |
 | Leslie J. Francis - 1989 - 244 pagina’s
...won; Pleased with his guests, the good man learned to glow, And quite forgot their vices in their woe; Careless their merits, or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. OLIVER GOLDSMITH (1728-1774) 53. We passed on after we left the forest through many pleasant villages... | |
 | Jacob Rader Marcus - 1989 - 974 pagina’s
...pious never forgot that giving was a mitzvah, both a divine imperative and a religious opportunity: Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries schnorring flourished only to fall on evil... | |
 | Robert H. Bremner - 260 pagina’s
...won. Pleased with his guests, the good man learned 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 wretched was his pride, And even his failings leaned to virtue's side; But in his... | |
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Wept o'er his wounds or tales of sorrow done, Shouldered his crutch, and showed how fields were won. Pleased with his guests, the good man learned to glow, And quite forgot their vices in their woe ; Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His... 
