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Oliver Goldsmith: A Biography - Page xi
by Washington Irving - 1849 - 382 pages
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Specimens of the British Poets: Churchill, 1764, to Johnson, 1784

Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 482 pages
...hour ; Far other aims his heart had learn'd to prize, More bent to raise the wretched than to rise. His house was known to all the vagrant train, He chid their wand'rings, but reliev'd their pain ; The long-reuiember'd beggar was his guest, Whose beard descending...
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Walks Through Bath: Describing Every Thing Worthy of Interest, Including ...

Pierce Egan - 1819 - 398 pages
...hour. Far other aims his heart had leara'd to prize, More bent to raise the wretched than to rise ; His house was known to all the vagrant train, He chid their wand'rings, but reliev'd their pain. But a facetious poet (ANSTEY) seems to have been more apposite...
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The Citizen of the World, Volumes 1-2

Oliver Goldsmith - 1820 - 706 pages
...face divine with affection and esteem ; he wound 'us up to be mere machines of pity, and rendered us incapable of withstanding the slightest impulse made...of giving away thousands before we were taught 'the more necessary qualifications of getting a farthing. ' I cannot avoid imagining, that thus refined...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, Volume 2

Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 446 pages
...hour ; Far other aims his heart had learn'd to prize, More bent to raise the wretched than to rise. His house was known to all the vagrant train, He chid their wanderings, but reliev'd their pain ; The long remember'd beggar was his guest, Whose beard descending swept his aged...
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Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical ..., Volume 9

John Aikin - 1821 - 314 pages
...hour; Far other aims his heart had learn'd to prize, More bent to raise the wretched than to rise. His house was known to all the vagrant train, He chid their wand'rings, but reliev'd their pain; The long-remember'd beggar was his guest, Whose beard descending...
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Poems Divine and Moral: Many of Them Now First Published

John Bowdler - 1821 - 510 pages
...hour ; Far other aims his heart had learn'd to prize, More bent to raise the wretched than to rise. His house was known to all the vagrant train, He chid their wand'rings, but reliev'd their pain. The long remember'd beggar was his guest, Whose beard descending...
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The Works of the British Poets: With Lives of the Authors, Volume 30

Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 428 pages
...hour ; Far other aims his heart had learn'd to prize, More skill'd to raise the wretched than to rise. His house was known to all the vagrant train, He chid their wanderings, but reliev'd their pain ; The long remember'd beggar was his guest, Whose beard descending swept his aged...
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The Bardiad: A Poem ; in Two Cantos

Charles Burton - 1823 - 234 pages
...hour; Far other aims his heart had learn'd to prize, More bent to raise the wretched than to rise. His house was known to all the vagrant train, He chid their wand'rings, but reliev'd their pain : The long remember'd beggar was his guest, Whose beard descending...
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The Speaker: Or Miscellaneous Pieces, Selected from the Best English Writers ...

William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pages
...; Far other aims his heart had learn'd to prize, More skill'd to raise the wretched, than to rise. His house was known to all the vagrant train, He chid their wand' rings, but reliev'd their pain ; The long reraember'd beggar was his guest, Whose beard descending...
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Select British Poets, Or, New Elegant Extracts from Chaucer to the Present ...

William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...hour; Far other aims his heart had learn'd to prize, More bent to raise the wretched than to rise. knows so well in majesty to please, Attemper'd with the gra wand'rings, but reliev'd their pain ; The long-remember'd beggar was his guest, Whose beard descending...
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