 | Bridgewater (Mass.) - 1856 - 198 pages
...from towns he ran his godly race, ' Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change, his place. Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashioned...other aims his heart had learned to prize, — More bent to raise the wretched than to rise. And as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-fledged... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1856 - 518 pages
...from towns he ran liis godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change, his place ; Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashioned...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... | |
 | Joseph William Jenks - 1856 - 574 pages
...Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed nor wished to change his place ; Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashioned...Far other aims his heart had learned to prize, More bent to raise the wretehed than to rise. His house was known to all the vagrant train, He chid their... | |
 | Bridgewater (Mass.) - 1856 - 172 pages
...from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change, his place. Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashioned...other aims his heart had learned to prize, — More bent to raise the wretched than to rise. And as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-fledged... | |
 | William Sherwood - 1856 - 466 pages
...from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change his place : Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashioned...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... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1856 - 134 pages
...from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e*cr had changed, iior wished to change his place ; Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashioned...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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1856 - 560 pages
...doctrines fashion'd to the varying hour ; — Far other aims his heart had learnt to prize, More bent to raise the wretched than to rise. His house was...all the vagrant train, He chid their wanderings, but reliev'd their pain ;J • • [These lines are supposed to apply to a female, named Catherine Geraghty.... | |
 | William Howitt - 1857 - 736 pages
...characteristics of " the village preacher," which in his father he celebrates, lived in himself! " Unpractised he to fawn or seek for power, By doctrines fashioned...More skilled to raise the wretched than to rise." How often did he present this trait in his own life ! How zealous he was to help any one that he could... | |
 | English poetry - 1857 - 334 pages
...doctrines fashion'd to the varying hour ; Far other aims his heart had learn'd to prize, More bent to raise the wretched than to rise. His house was...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,... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1857 - 428 pages
...from towns he ran his godly race ; Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change, his place. Unskilful he to fawn or seek for power, By doctrines fashioned...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... | |
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A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change his place... 
