 | John Pierpont - 1828 - 320 sidor
...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...reverend champion stood. At his control Despair and anguish fled the struggling soul; Comfort came down, the trembling wretch to raise, And his last, faltering... | |
 | 1828 - 398 sidor
...tempt his new fledg'd offspring to the skies ; He try'd each art, reprov'd each dull delay, Allur'd to brighter worlds, and led the way. Beside the bed...life was laid, And sorrow, guilt, and pain, by turns dismay'd ; The rev'rend champion stood. At his control, Despair and anguish fled the trembling soul... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 264 sidor
...tempt her new-fledg'd offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reprov'd each dull delay, Allur'd to brighter worlds, and led the way. Beside the bed,...life was laid, And sorrow, guilt, and pain, by turns dismay'd, The reverend champion stood. At his control Despair and anguish fled the struggling soul;... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1829 - 290 sidor
...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...reverend champion stood. At his control Despair and anguish fled the struggling soul ; Comfort came down, the trembling wretch to raise, And his last,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1830 - 544 sidor
...virtue's side; But in his duty prompt at every call, He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt for all; And, I heard a hissing — there are serpenU here! O, there...we've Uid her, His honour is no mercenary trader. dismay'd, The reverend champion stood. At his control, Despair and anguish fled the struggling soul... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 sidor
...watched nnd wept, he prayed and felt for all ; And, as a bird each fond endearment tries, To tempt. NT anguish fled the struggling soul ; Comfort came down the trembling wretch to raise, And his last faltering... | |
 | Asa Cummings - 1830 - 530 sidor
...very little effect.' — How appropriate to this beloved pastor are the lines of Goldsmith : ' And as a bird each fond endearment tries. To tempt its...delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way. bassador he was. He could scarcely utter a word without rendering it obvious to all who heard him,... | |
 | Asa Cummings - 1830 - 460 sidor
...with very little effect." — How appropriate to this beloved pastor are the lines of Goldsmith ." And as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its...delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way." • ' Suppose you take the capacity for happiness, which has been said by philosophers to be the only... | |
 | Asa Cummings - 1839 - 510 sidor
...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 its...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 sidor
...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 its...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... 
