 Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings leaned to 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 its new-fledged offspring...  Half Tints: Table D'hôte and Drawing-room - Pàgina 190per Addison Peale Russell - 1867 - 232 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1836 - 368 pàgines
...and eminent Christian are the lines of Goldsmith ; — " And ш л bird each fond endearment trice, To tempt its new-fledged offspring to the skies ;...art. reproved each dull delay. Allured to brighter world» and led the way." THE STATE OF THE CHURCH IN RUSSIA. No. II. BY THOMAS BROWN, ESQ., Author... | |
 | President of a college - 1836 - 156 pàgines
...smoke." " And, as a bird each fond endearment tries, To tempt its new-fledged -of&pring to the skied, He tried each art, reproved each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way." Q. What is the foundation of this figure? A. Analogy, or resemblance, either in character or effect.... | |
 | 1836 - 784 pàgines
...wept, he prayed, he felt for all ; And as a bird each fond endearment tries, To tempt its new fledged offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reproved each dull delay. Allured to brighter worlds, anii led the way. TO AN INFANT. THINE eyes of infant eloquence are closed in slumbers light, Like moon-lit... | |
 | Samuel Worcester - 1837 - 264 pàgines
...their wo ; Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. 5. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And even his...delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way. 6. Beside the bed where parting life was laid, And sorrow, guilt, and pain, by turns dismayed, The... | |
 | Truth - 1837 - 566 pàgines
...dilatory ; he used arguments which convinced, and gave the cordial of encouragement to the diffident — " He tried each art, reproved each dull delay. Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way." A perfect example of exactness and punctuality himself, he rigidly required it in others ; the omission... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 472 pàgines
...And, as a bird each fond endearment tries, To tempt its new-fledged offspring to the skies, He triell each art, reproved each dull delay, £ • Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way. The reverend champion stood. At his control, Despair and anguish fled the struggling soul; Comfort... | |
 | Caroline Howard Gilman - 1838 - 290 pàgines
...race, the happiness Of one poor individual, Or of uunumber'd thousands be attain'd." SG BOLLFINCH. " And as a bird each fond endearment tries, To tempt...delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way." GOLDSMITH. THERE is no moral object so beautiful to me as a conscientious young man! I watch him as... | |
 | Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 pàgines
...wept, he prayed and felt for all. And, as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new fledged offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reproved...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... | |
 | James Wilson - 1838 - 372 pàgines
...LIFE Of REV. RICHARD LUCAS, DD *' Ana as a bird each fond endearment tries, To tempt its new tiedged offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reproved...delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way." THERE is no period of our history, that has produced such a numher of polemic writers, as appeared... | |
 | Albert Barnes - 1838 - 56 pàgines
...wept, he prayed and foil for all. " And as a bird each fond endearment tries " To tempt its new fledged offspring to the skies, " He tried each art, reproved...delay, " Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way." GOLDSMITH. IV. His SUCCESS. A few remarks is all that the time will admit under this head. There is... | |
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