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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... "
Studies in English poetry [an anthology] with biogr. sketches and notes by J ... - Page 448
edited by - 1845
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Poems by Goldsmith and Parnell

Oliver Goldsmith - 1804 - 114 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,...
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Beauties of Poetry: Consisting of Elegant Selections from the Works of Pope ...

English poetry - 1814 - 310 pages
...seek for power, By doctrines fashion 'd to the varying hour; Far other aims his heart had Iearn'd°to prize, More bent to raise the wretched than to rise....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...
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The poems and plays of Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 274 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,...
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Poems

Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 236 pages
...heart had learned to prize. More bent to raise the wretched than to rise. His house was known to al! the vagrant train, He chid their wanderings, but relieved...had his claims allowed ; The broken soldier kindly bid to stay, S at by his fire, and talked the night away ; Wept o'er his wounds, or tales of sorrow...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, Volume 2

Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 446 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...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...
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The British Poets: Including Translations ...

British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 290 pages
...for power, [place; 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...their wanderings, but relieved their pain; The long remember'd beggar was his guest, Whose beard descending swept bis aged breast; The ruiu'd spendthrift,...
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The Traveller, the Deserted Village, and Other Poems

Oliver Goldsmith - Bible - 1822 - 194 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...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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The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Miscellaneous poems. The good ...

Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1825 - 476 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...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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Remarks on the legality and expediency of prosecutions for religious opinion ...

Jonathan Duncan - Dissenters, Religious - 1825 - 274 pages
...or seek for power, By doctrines fashion'd to the varying hour : Far other aims his heart had Icarn'd to prize, More bent to raise the wretched than to...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...
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The National Reader: A Selection of Exercises in Reading and Speaking ...

John Pierpont - Readers - 1829 - 290 pages
...his plice : Unpractised he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashioned to the varying hour : Far other aims his heart had learned to prize, —...chid their wanderings, but relieved their pain. The long-remembered beggar was his guest, Whose beard, desce&ding, swept his aged breast : i The ruined...
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