 | Matthew Gregory Lewis - 1801 - 266 pages
...his fortune felt a wrack, " Had that false servant sped in safety back ; " This night his treasured heaps he meant to steal, " And what a fund of charity...sounding pinions here the youth withdrew, The Sage stood wondering as the Seraph flew. Thus look'd Elisha, when, to mount on high, His master took the chariot... | |
 | James Thomson - 1803 - 268 pages
...all his fortune felt a wrack, Had that false servant sped in safety back ; This night his treasur'd heaps he meant to steal , And what a fund of charity...sounding pinions here the youth withdrew , The Sage stood wondering as the Seraph flew. E .* Thus look'd Elisha when , to mount on high, His master took the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1804 - 114 pages
...all his fortune felt a wrack, Had that false servant sped in safety backl^ This night his treasured heaps he meant to steal, And what a fund of charity...sounding pinions here the youth withdrew ; The sage stood wondering as the seraph flew. Thus look'd Elisha, when to mount on high, His master took the chariot... | |
 | 1806 - 184 pages
...all his fortunes felt a wreck, Had that false servant sped in safety back ! This night his treasur'd heaps he meant to steal, And what a fund of charity...sounding pinions here the youth withdrew ; The sage stood wondering as the seraph flew. Thus look'd Elisha, when to mount on high, His master took the chariot... | |
 | Albin-Joseph-Ulpien Hennet - 1806 - 456 pages
...all his fortune felt a wreck, Had that false servant sped in safety back ? This night, his treasur'd heaps he meant to steal, And what a fund of charity would fail ! > Plus simple il fait aimer son hospitalité. » L'autre, dont mes présens semblent flatterie vice,... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 512 pages
...all his fortunes felt a wreck, Had that false servant sped in safety back! This night his treasnr'd heaps he meant to steal, And what a fund of charity...sounding pinions here the youth withdrew ; The sage stood wondering as the seraph flew. Thus look'd Elisha, when to mount on high, His master took the chariot... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 490 pages
...wreck, Had that false servant sped in safety back ! This night his treasur'd heaps he meant to stt And what a fund of charity would fail ! Thus heaven instructs thy mind : this trial o'ei Depart in peace, resign, and sin no more/ On sounding pinions here the youth withdrew The sage... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 pages
...his fortunes felt a wrack, Had ih it false servant sped in safety back ! This night his irca»nr'd right. (For what to shun will nogroat knowledge ƀ 0 < P llcav'u instructs thy miuJ : this trial o'er, Depart in ucacc, resign, and sin no more." On sounding... | |
 | English poetry - 1809 - 308 pages
...all his fortune felt a wrack, Had that false servant sped in safety back ? This night his treasur'd heaps he meant to steal, And what a fund of charity would foil! i 2 ' Thus bcav'n instructs thy mind: this trial o'er. Depart in peace, resign, and sin no more.'... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 664 pages
...blow) The poor fond parent, humbled in the dust, Now owns in tears the punishment was just. " But now had all his fortune felt a wrack, Had that false servant...sounding pinions here the youth withdrew, The sage stood wondering as the seraph flew* Thus look'd Elisha when, to mount on: high, His master took the chariot... | |
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twas my ministry to deal the blow. The poor fond parent, humbled in the dust, Now owns in tears the punishment was just. 
