 | Fireside scenes - 1825 - 920 pages
...leaves the storm, Though rolling clouds around its bosom spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head. And as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt...delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way. GoLDSMITHTHE COUNTRY CURATE. JOHN CHALONER is one of my oldest friends. He has travelled along the... | |
 | James M'Henry - 1825 - 348 pages
...wept, he pray'd, and felt for all. And as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt hernete-jledged offspring to the skies,. He tried each art, reproved...delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way. GOLDSMITH. AFTER breakfast the next morning, our three conspirators arranged a plan of recruiting for... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1828 - 320 pages
...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...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... | |
 | William Jay - 1828 - 408 pages
...And, " As a bird each fond endearment tries, " To tempt her new-fledged offspring to the skien, " They tried each art, reproved each dull delay, " Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way !" 12 It is thus their children rise up and called them blessed ! — Let us view it, Fourthly, in... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1829 - 290 pages
...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...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... | |
 | William Leggett - 1829 - 250 pages
...Goldsmith's Deserted Village, his divine precepts received a forcible illustration from his example. " He tried each art, reproved each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way." To console the widowhood, and engage the attention of his bereaved partner, a son, the sole remaining... | |
 | William Leggett - 1829 - 248 pages
...GoldsmithV Deserted Village, his divine precepts received a forcible illustration from his example. " Ho tried each art, reproved each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way.'' To console the widowhood, and engage the attention of his bereaved partner, a son, the sole remaining... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1830 - 544 pages
...pride, And e'en his failings lean'd to virtue's side; But in his duty prompt at every call, He watch'd » The inhabitants are cannibals, I fear : I heard...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 - 1839 - 510 pages
...constant 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." MP 23* It would be matter for lamentation if the preceding statements of insulated facts should be... | |
 | Asa Cummings - 1830 - 434 pages
...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... | |
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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... 
