 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1770 - 44 pages
...changed, nor wifli'd to change his place ; Unfldlful he to fawn, or feek for power, By doctrines fafhioned to the varying hour ; Far other aims his heart had learned to prize, More bent to raife the wretched than to rife. His houfe was known to all the vagrant train, He chid their... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - Books - 1770 - 604 pages
...fmile. His ready fmjle a parent's warmth expreft, Their welfare pleas'd him, and their cares diflreft ; To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his ferious thoughts had reft in heaven. ' As feme tall cliff that lifts its awful form Swells from the... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1771 - 590 pages
...nor wiihed to change his placfr; Unpraftifed he to fawn, or feek for power. By doftrines fafhioned to the varying hour ; Far other aims his heart had learned to prize, More (kiMed to raife the wretched than to rife. His houfe was known to all the vagrant train, He chid their... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1774 - 70 pages
...changed, nor wifhed to change his place j Unpra&ifed he to fawn, or feek for power, By do&rines fafhioned to the varying hour ; Far other aims his heart had learned to prize, More fkill to raife the wretched than to rife. His houfe was known to all the vagrant train, He chid their... | |
 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1785 - 460 pages
...fmile His ready fmile a parent's warmth expreft, Their welfare pleas'd him, and their cares diftrcft ; To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his ferious thoughts had reft in Heav'n. As fome tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the... | |
 | Johann Joachim Eschenaburg - Literature - 1789 - 484 pages
..., nor wil h'd to change his place ; Unfkilful he to fawn, or feek for power, By doctrines fafhioned to the varying hour; Far other aims his heart had learned to prize, More bent to raife the wretched than to rife. His houfe was known to all the vagrant train, He chid their... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1791 - 206 pages
...His His ready fmile a parent's warmth expreft, Their welfare pleas'd him, and their cares diftrefi ; To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his ferious thoughts had reft in heaven. As fomc tall clifF that lifts its awful form, Swells from the... | |
 | Beauties - 1791 - 214 pages
...His ready finile a parent's warmth exp'reft, Their welfare pleas'd him, and their cares diftreft ; To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his ferious thoughts had reft in heaven. As fome tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the... | |
 | Missions - 1801 - 576 pages
...10 change, his place. t Urfldlfu} Unflcilful he to fawn, or feek for pow'r, By doftrines fafluoned to the varying hour. Far other aims his heart had learned to prize, More bent to rajfe the wretched, than to rife. His houfe was known to all the vagrant train, He chid their... | |
 | James Roach - English poetry - 1792 - 284 pages
...fmilff« His ready fmile a parent's warmih exprefl, Their welfare pleas'd him, and their cares diflrefl ; To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his ferious thoughts had refl in Heaven. As fome tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the... | |
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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... 
