 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1845 - 550 sidor
...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 sidor
...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 sidor
...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 sidor
...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... | |
 | 1846 - 512 sidor
...to the beloved author. ' ' Firm to his duty, prompt at every call, He watch'd, and wept, he prayed and felt for all; And as a bird each fond endearment...delay, Allured to brighter worlds and led the way." By those who are younger in the ministry a brighter li ving example could scarcely be selected, and... | |
 | 1846 - 604 sidor
...each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-fledged offspring to the skies ; She tried each heart — reproved each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds and led the way." She was very cautious in promising any thing to us, and as careful m performing her promises ; for... | |
 | 1848 - 592 sidor
...the beautiful gjrtrait of a faithful minister drawn by a ritish poet's hand may fully apply — ' And 67 ! ' " * Bishop Doane, of New Jersey, in a speech in St. Mary's Hall, Coventry. OXFOHD AND CAMBRIDGE... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1847 - 290 sidor
...watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all j And, as a bird each fond endearment tries, To tempt her new-fledged offspring to the skies, He tried each...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... | |
 | Maine Historical Society - 1847 - 396 sidor
...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...delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way." • *He graduated at Cambridge, in 1757, and died in 1809. . _ i '. • ' • . ' ' • • ' I •... | |
 | 1852 - 788 sidor
...thoughts had rest in heav'n. -**** And as a bird each fond endearment tries, To tempt his new-fledg'd offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reproved...delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way." THE LOSS OF THE WHITE SHIP. "THOUGH the sinking sun be low, and the waves be foaming white," Said Prince... | |
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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... 
