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Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashioned to the varying hour ; 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,...

Beauties of Poetry: Consisting of Elegant Selections from the Works of Pope ... - Page 21
1814 - 300 pages
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The Penguin Book of Everyday Verse: Social and Documentary Poetry, 1250-1916

David Wright - English poetry - 1976 - 552 pages

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Silver Poets of the Eighteenth Century

Arthur Pollard - English poetry - 1976 - 304 pages

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Oliver Goldsmith: A Biography ; Biography of the Late Margaret Miller Davidson

Washington Irving - Biography & Autobiography - 1978 - 712 pages

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A Critical History of English Literature: The Restoration to 1800, Volume 3

David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pages

...dispossess the 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; . . ....

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