 | Henry John Todd - Narrative poetry, English - 1810 - 466 pages
...withold : But dwelt at home, and kepte wel his fold, So that the wolf ne made it not miscarie. 515 He was a shepherd, and no mercenarie. And though he...ne digne, But in his teching discrete and benigne. 520 To drawen folk to heven, with fairenesse, By good ensample, was his besinesse : But it were any... | |
 | Henry John Todd - Narrative poetry, English - 1810 - 470 pages
...withold : But dwelt at home, and kepte wel his fold, So that the wolf ne made it not miscarie. 515 He was a shepherd, and no mercenarie. And though he...ne digne, But in his teching discrete and benigne. 520 To drawen folk to heven, with fairenesse, By good ensample, was his besinesse : But it were any... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 766 pages
...fold, So that the wolf ne made it not rniscarie. He was a shepherd, and no mercenarie. And tliough he holy were, and vertuous, He was to sinful men not dispitous, Ne of his speche dangerous nc digne, Bat in his teaching discrete and henigne. To drawen folk to Heven, with fairenesse, By good... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...kepte wel his fold, So that the wolf ne made it not misearie ; He was a shepherd and no mereenarie. orimant would have. Barnard, thou art a eit with all thy speehe dangerous ne digne ; But, in his teehing, diserete and benigne. To drawen folke to heven, with... | |
 | Poems - 1827 - 934 pages
...minister of the gospel. 1 may transcribe a few wellJtnown lines from Chaucer, as not inapplicable :— He was a shepherd and no mercenarie — And though he holy were and vertuous, He was to sinful man not dispitous ; Me of his speche dangerous ne digne, And in his teching discrete and bcnigne —... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1827 - 330 pages
...shepe he yaf, That first he wrought and afterward he taught; Out of the gospel he the wordes caught.— And though he holy were, and vertuous He was to sinful men not dispitous, \e of his spcche dangerous ne digne, But in his teching discrete and benigne. To drawen folk to heven... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Country life - 1828 - 268 pages
...he yaf, That first he wrought and afterward he taught On i of the gospel he the worries caught. — And though he holy were, and vertuous He was to sinful...dispitous Ne of his speche dangerous ne digne, But in his tecbing discrete and beoigne. To drawen folk to heven with fairnesse, By good en&le was his businesse... | |
 | John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - English poetry - 1828 - 600 pages
...chanterie for soules, Or with a brotherhede to be withold : But dwelt at home, ami kept6 wel his fold, So that the wolf ne made it not miscarie. . .* . He was a shepherd, and no mercenarie. (a) Proved. (6) Times. (c) Give. And though he holy were, and vertuous, He was to sinful men not dispitous,... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...be withhold : But dwelt at home, and kepte wel his fold, So that the wolf ne made it not miscarrie. He was a shepherd, and no mercenarie. And though he...holy were, and vertuous, He was to sinful men not dispitous,3 Ne of his speche dangerous* ne di gnty : But in his teching discrete and benigne. To drawen... | |
 | Robert Southey - English poetry - 1831 - 1038 pages
...chanterie for soûles, Or with a brotlierhede to be withold : But dwelt at home, and kepte wel his fold, So that the wolf ne made it not miscarie. He was a...dangerous ne digne, But in his teching discrete and bénigne. To drawen folk to heven, with faircnesse, By good ensample was his besinesse : But it were... | |
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So that the wolf ne made it not miscarie. He was a shepherd, and no mercenarie. And though he holy were, and vertuous, He was to sinful men not dispitous, Ne of his speche dangerous ne digne, But in his teching discrete and benigne. 
