...faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity 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,...

...won. Pleased with his guests, the good man learned to glow, And quite forgot their vices in their wo ; Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His...began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And even his failings leaned to virtue's side : But, in his duty prompt at every call, He watched and wept,...

...¡я charity. Pope. Pleased with his guests the good man learned to glow. And quite forgot their vices in their woe ; Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Goldmith. The societies which were instituted in the cities of the Roman empire wer» united only by...

...fields were won. Pleas'dwith his guests, the good man learn'd to glow, And quite forgot their vices in their woe ; Careless their merits or their faults...ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was bis pride, And ev'n his failings lean'd to Virtue's side ; But in his duty prompt, at every call, He...

...it was all that he asked to know. Like his own village pastor, he overflowed with benevolence, and ear. AN ELEGY, WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH- YARD. This is a very fine poem, but o This profuse and undistuiguishing liberality has sometimes been imputed to him as a fault; but it at...

...guests, the good man learned to glow, And quite forgot their vices in their woe ; Careless their merit-* o o'er thy country hangs The scouge of Heaven ! What terrors round him wai t lie wretched was his pride. And e'en his failings leaned to virtue's side ; But, in his duty prompt...

...fields were won. Pleas'd with his guests, the good man learn'd to glow, And quite forgot their vices in their woe ; Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave.ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And even his failings lean'd to...

...but after all, it may truly be said of him, as of the village preacher described by Goldsmith, that " To relieve the wretched was his pride, And ev'n his...But in his duty prompt at ev'ry call, He watch'd and wept—he pray'd—and felt for all ; And, as a bird each fond endearment tries, To tempt her new-fledg'd...

...76th year. " The long-remembered beggar was his guest, Whose beard descending swept his aged breast, Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave, ere charity began. But in his duty prompt at every call He watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all." [B. I, No. 82l...

...fields were won; Pleased with his guests, the good man learned to glow, And quite forgot their vices in their woe; Careless their merits, or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. OLIVER GOLDSMITH (1728-1774) 53. We passed on after we left the forest through many pleasant villages...