 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 162 pages
...fond endearment tries To tempt its new-fledged offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reprov'd each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led...came down the trembling wretch to raise, And his last faltering accents whispered praise. At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorn'd the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 160 pages
...fond endearment tries To tempt its new-fledged ofispring to the skies, He tried each art, roprov'd each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led...came down the trembling wretch to raise, And his last faltering accents whispered praise. At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorn'd the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1851 - 376 pages
...skies, He tried each art, reprov'd each dull delay, Allur'd to brighter worlds, and led the way. 9 Beside the bed where parting life was laid, And sorrow,...came down the trembling wretch to raise, And his last faltering accents whisper'd praise. At church, with meek and unaffected grace, 9 His looks adorn'd... | |
 | William Chambers - Children's poetry - 1851 - 200 pages
...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...life was laid, And sorrow, guilt, and pain, by turns dismayed, The reverend champion stood. At his control, Despair and anguish fled the struggling soul... | |
 | Reminiscences - 1851 - 86 pages
...period : " 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...delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way."* It will be seen, then, that on no account could the neglect of public worship in Rosedale be attributed... | |
 | Henry Harbaugh - Heaven - 1851 - 328 pages
...all human ties, — affection for their beloved dead who have died in the Lord. IS HEAVEN A PLACE? And as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt...delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way. Is heaven a place, or is it a state of existence merely ? Has it locality, and is it material ? Shall... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 pages
...pray'd and felt for all ; And, as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-fledged oflspring to the skies, He tried each art, reproved each dull...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... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1925 - 424 pages
...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...life was laid. And sorrow, guilt, and pain by turns dismayed, The reverend champion stood. At his control, Despair and anguish fled the struggling soul... | |
 | American poetry - 1926 - 780 pages
...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...came down the trembling wretch to raise And his last faltering accents whisper'd praise. At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorn'd the... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1926 - 928 pages
...all ? And, as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-fledged offspring to the skies, Tie eternal Hunger sits, but pity and awe Soothe her pale...and the law Of change, shall o'er his sleep the mort dismayed, 172 The reverend champion stood. At his control Despair and anguish fled the struggling soul;... | |
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Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings lean'd to virtue's side ; But in his duty prompt at every 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... 
