 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...  Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature - Page 191edited by - 1850Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Worcester - 1837 - 264 pages
...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 to the skies, He...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...individual, Or of unnumber'd thousands be attain'd." SG BULUINOH. " And as a bird each fond endearment tries, To tempt its new-fledged offspring to the skies, He...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 pages
...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... | |
 | Albert Barnes - 1838 - 56 pages
...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... | |
 | James Wilson - 1838 - 372 pages
...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... | |
 | 1840 - 420 pages
...call, He watch'd and 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, reprov'd each dull delay, Allm'd to brighter worlds, and led the way. Beside the bed where parting... | |
 | 1843 - 600 pages
...watch'd and 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...delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way. And there was her name cherished and dwelt upon at each returning festival of the year. And thither... | |
 | John N Woodroffe - 1839 - 408 pages
...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 to the skies, He...delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way. Goldsmith. THEY SHOULD BE PEACEABLE AND PATIENT. 1 Cor. ix. 12; x. 32, 33. 2 Cor. vi. 3. 1 Tim. iii.... | |
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