 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1803 - 192 pages
...began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And ev'n his failingslean'd to Virtue's side ; But in his duty prompt at every call, He watch 'd and wept, he pray'd and felt, for all. And, as a bird each fond endearment tries, To tempt its new-fledg'd offspring to the skies j He try'd... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 446 pages
...won, Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings lean'd to virtue's side ; But in his duty prompt at every call, He watch' d and wept, he pray'd and felt for all ; And, as a bird each fond endearment tries, To tempt its new-fledg'd offspring to the skies, He tried... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Medicine in literature - 1839 - 360 pages
...began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings lean'd to virtue's side ; But in his duty prompt at every call, He watch 'd and wept, he pray'd and felt for all. And, as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new fledg'd offspring to the skies, He tried... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Irish literature - 1851 - 476 pages
...[ 0 Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings lean'd to virtue's side ; But in his duty prompt at every call, He watch 'd and wept, he pray d and felt, for all; And, as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-8edged offspring... | |
 | John Forster - 1854 - 572 pages
...began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And even his failings lean'd to virtue's side : But in his duty, prompt at every call, He watch 'd and wept, he pray'd and felt for all ; And, as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-fledg'd offspring to the skies, He tried... | |
 | Edward Delaval Hungerford Elers Napier - 1856 - 422 pages
...; But to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings lean'd to virtue's side ; Whilst in his duty prompt at every call, He watch 'd and wept, he pray'd and felt for all." GOLDSMITH. • ARMY Doctors are often stigmatised as callous to human suffering, by constantly witnessing death... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Bookbinding - 1859 - 200 pages
...began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And even his failings lean'd to virtue's side — But in his duty, prompt at every call, He watch' d and wept, he pray'd and felt for all ; And, as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-fledg'd offspring to the skies, He tried... | |
 | James Fleming - 1863 - 404 pages
...began. Thus, to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings lean'd to virtue's side ; But in his duty prompt at every call, He watch 'd and wept, he pray'd and felt for all. And, as a bird each fond endearment tries, To tempt each new fledg'd offspring to the skies, He tried... | |
 | Selections - English poetry - 1863 - 192 pages
...to-relieve-the-wretched was his pride , And e'en his failings lean'd to virtue's side ; But, in-his-duty prompt at every call , He watch 'd and wept • he pray'd and felt for all . And, as a bird each fond endearment tries « To tempt its new-fledged offspring to the skies , He... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1872 - 524 pages
...began* Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings lean'd to virtue's side — But in his duty prompt, at every call, He watch 'd and wept, he prayed and felt for all ; And, as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-fledg'd offspring... | |
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