 | William Merry - 1839 - 112 sidor
...village preacher's modest mansion rose. 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. READING: G. LOVEJOY, LONDON STREET. LONDON: HAMILTON AND ADAMS, PATERNOSTER ROW; WHITTAKEB AND CO.... | |
 | John Newton - 1839 - 496 sidor
...wept, he prayed 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." I remember to have heard him say, when speaking of his continual interruptions, " I see in this world... | |
 | Thomas Branagan, Julius Rubens Ames - 1839 - 404 sidor
...aide, But in his duty prompt at ev'ry call, He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt for all. And as the bird each fond endearment tries, To tempt its new-fledged 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 where parting... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1840 - 504 sidor
...side ; But in his duty prompt at every call, He watch'd and wept, he prayed and felt for all ; And, as a bird each fond endearment tries, To tempt its...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... | |
 | 1840 - 378 sidor
...side ; ' But in his duty prompt, at ev'ry call, He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt for all : And as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its...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 struggling soul... | |
 | Robert Adair - 1840 - 328 sidor
...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." GOLDSMITH. IV. His SUCCESS. A few remarks is all that the time will admit under this head. There is... | |
 | Charles R. Henery - 1995 - 176 sidor
...tempt its 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;... | |
 | American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia - 1922 - 374 sidor
...watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all: And, as a bird each fond endearment tries. To tempt her new-fledged offspring to the skies, He tried each...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... | |
 | Gordon Mursell - 2001 - 604 sidor
...virtues 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... | |
 | George Boardman Taylor - 1872 - 378 sidor
...States now raise in a year for the same object. Goldsmith's "Deserted Village" describes him: "And as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its...delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way." .... If he built a church-house, it was capacious, neat, lasting and strong. External ornament rots... | |
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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... 
