| Oliver Goldsmith - 1830 - 544 pàgines
...virtue's side; But in his duty prompt at every call, He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt for all; ar : I heard a hissing — there are serpenU here!...craves assistance; Our ship's well stored — in y Beside the bed where parting life was laid, And sorrow, guilt, and pain, by turns dismay'd, The reverend... | |
| Asa Cummings - 1830 - 530 pàgines
...with very little effect.' — How appropriate to this beloved pastor are the lines of Goldsmith : ' And as a bird each fond endearment tries. To tempt...delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way. bassador he was. He could scarcely utter a word without rendering it obvious to all who heard him,... | |
| Asa Cummings - 1830 - 434 pàgines
...solicitude, and of the various exertions to which it prompted him, are the lines of the poet : — " And as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt...delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way." It would be matter for lamentation, if the preceding statements of insulated facts should be so interpreted... | |
| Asa Cummings - 1830 - 460 pàgines
...with very little effect." — How appropriate to this beloved pastor are the lines of Goldsmith ." And as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt...delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way." • ' Suppose you take the capacity for happiness, which has been said by philosophers to be the only... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 pàgines
...watched nnd wept, he prayed and felt for all ; And, as a bird each fond endearment tries, To tempt. NT Beside the bed where parting life was laid. And sorrow, guilt, and pain, by turns dismayed, The reverend... | |
| Asa Cummings - 1830 - 416 pàgines
...are the lines of the poet:— " And as a. bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-flcdgcd offspring to the skies, ", He tried each art, reproved...delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way." It would be matter for lamentation, if the preceding statements of insulated facts should be so interpreted... | |
| Susan Ferrier - 1831 - 358 pàgines
...virtue's side; But in his duty prompt at every call, He watch'd, iind wept, and felt, and pray'd for all ; And as a bird each fond endearment tries, To tempt...delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way." " Allow me, in the meantime, to lead the way to something more substantial, Miss Lucy," cried Mr M'Dow,... | |
| Charles Hodge - 1831 - 612 pàgines
...me, and I am happy. Whatever may be thought of these plans, yet they show the character of the man. " And as a bird each fond endearment tries, To tempt...delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way." We would most gladly record on our pages, the account of the exit from the world of this eminently... | |
| Susan Ferrier - 1831 - 508 pàgines
...virtue's side ; But in his duty prompt at every call, He watch'd, and wept, and felt, and pray'd for all ; And as a bird each fond endearment tries, To tempt...each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led (he way." " Allow me, in the meantime, to lead the way to something more substantial, Miss Lucy," cried... | |
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pàgines
...virtue's side; But in his duty, prompt at every call, He watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all; And, as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt...delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way. Beside the bed where parting life was laid, And sorrow, guilt, and pain, by turns dismayed, The reverend... | |
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