| Andrew Carpenter - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 662 pages
...other aims his heart had learned to prize, More skilled to raise the wretched than to rise. His house was known to all the vagrant train, He chid their...relieved their pain; The long remembered beggar was his guest, Whose beard descending swept his aged breast; The ruined spendthrift, now no longer proud, Claimed... | |
| Sean Dunne - Fiction - 1957 - 496 pages
...other aims his heart had learned to prize, More skilled 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-remember'd beggar was his guest, Whose beard descending swept his aged breast; The ruined spendthrift,... | |
| Diane Ravitch, Michael Ravitch - Literary Collections - 2006 - 512 pages
...other aims his heart had learned to prize, More skilled to raise the wretched than to rise. His house was known to all the vagrant train, He chid their...relieved their pain; The long remembered beggar was his guest, Whose beard descending swept his aged breast; The ruined spendthrift, now no longer proud, Claimed... | |
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