 | English poetry - 1853 - 552 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-remembered beggar was his guest, Whose beard, descending, swept his a;j;ed breast ; The ruined... | |
 | Poets, American - 1853 - 560 pages
...heart had learned to prize, More bent to raise the wretched than to rise. GOLDSMITH. 145 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 ; The ruined spendthrift,... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 pages
...What subjects will precarious kings regard? A beggar speaks too softly to be heard. Dryden. His house was known 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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Irish Literature (in English) - 1854 - 348 pages
...other aims his heart had learn'd to prize, 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 remember'd beggar was his guest, Whose beard descending swept his aged breast ; The ruin'd spendthrift,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 524 pages
...other aims his heart had learn'd to prize, More skill'd 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 ruin'd spendthrift,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Natural history - 1854 - 614 pages
..." Deserted Village" we have another picture of his father aud his father's fireside : — 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 agi'd breast ; The ruin'd... | |
 | Alexander Winton Buchan - 1854 - 332 pages
...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 wanderings, but relieved their pain ; The long-remembered beggar was his guest, Whose beard descending swept his aged breast ; The ruined spendthrift... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pages
...swain; . . . She only left of all the harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. His house was known to all the vagrant train; He chid their wanderings, but relieved their pain; . . . Yes! let the rich deride, the proud disdain These simple blessings of the lowly train; . . .... | |
 | Leslie J. Francis - Clergy - 1989 - 244 pages
...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 wanderings, but reliev'd their pain; The long remembered beggar was his guest, Where beard descending swept his aged... | |
 | Robert H. Bremner - Social Science - 260 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-remembered beggar was his guest, Whose beard descending swept his aged breast; The ruined spendthrift,... | |
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His house was known to all the vagrant train ; He chid their wanderings, but relieved their pain... 
