 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
 | 1871 - 870 pàgines
...diversified exertions for the welfare of his people, his biographer aptly quotes the well-known lines : " And as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt...delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way." When this inventive pastor had lost the sense of feeling in his right arm and left side, and so had... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1844 - 544 pàgines
...wept, he pray'd and felt for all; And as a bird each fond endearment tries, To tempt its new-fledg'd 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 dismay'd, The reverend... | |
 | William Morrison Engles - 1844 - 274 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pàgines
...wept, he prayed and felt for all ; And, as a bird each fond endearment tries, To tempt her new fledged His horse and him, unconscious of them all. But 0...budget ! ushered in With such heart-shaking music Beside the bed where parting life was laid, And sorrow, guilt, and pain, by turns dismayed, The reverend... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pàgines
...wept, he prayed and felt for all ; And, as a bird each fond endearment tries, To tempt her new fledged g infested all the coasts, and even the inland parts...by their depredations, having now learned the arts Beside the bed where parting life was laid, And sorrow, guilt, and pain, by turns dismayed, The reverend... | |
 | 1844 - 406 pàgines
...wept, he pray'd, 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 each dull delay, Allur'd to brighter worlds, and led the way." TP THE RULE OF JUDGMENT IN MATTERS ECCLESIASTICAL. If... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1845 - 550 pàgines
...virtue's aide; But in his duty prompt at every call, He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt for aB; 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 dismay'd, The reverend... | |
 | 1845 - 614 pàgines
...virtue's side ; But in his duty prompt at CVPJV call, He watched and wept, he prayed and felt, for allAnd, as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its...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... | |
 | John Pring - 1845 - 224 pàgines
...sufferer's heart, Thus of him, those who godliness admire, May truly say, as Goldsmith, of his sire,— " He tried each art, reproved each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way."1 As some rich cluster of Autumnal fruit, In ripened beauty trembles on the shoot, Then yielding... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pàgines
...a bird each fond endearment tries, To tempt her new-fledged offspring to the skies ; He tried eacli art, reproved each dull 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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