 | Asa Cummings - 1830 - 434 Seiten
...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...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... | |
 | Asa Cummings - 1839 - 510 Seiten
...constant 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...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 - 460 Seiten
...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...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... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - 256 Seiten
...tempt its 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 controul, Despair and anguish fled the struggling soul... | |
 | 1920 - 694 Seiten
...breast, Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave, ere charity began. But in his duty prompt at every call He watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all." [B. I, No. 82l MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS RELATING TO JEWS IN WARS OF UNITED STATES AND CORRESPONDENCE WITH... | |
 | 1897 - 960 Seiten
...church, noted for his earnest eloquence in the pulpit and his missionary work among the poor, with whom " He tried each art, reproved each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds and led the way;" and his mother was Sarah Leader, a Nova Scotian by birth, a suitable helpmate for her husband in works... | |
 | Maine Historical Society - 1995 - 458 Seiten
...other aims his heart had learnt to pri/e, More bent to raise the wretched than to rise." "But in his duty, prompt at every call, He watched and wept, he...felt for all : And, as a bird each fond endearment ti'ics To tempt its new fledged offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reproved each dull delay,... | |
 | Charles R. Henery - 1995 - 176 Seiten
...failings leaned 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 fledg'd offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reprov'd each dull delay, Allur'd to brighter... | |
 | American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia - 1922 - 374 Seiten
...not. It certainly did not please his people, who applied to him the words of the poet : ". . . in his duty prompt at every call, He watched and wept, he...And, as a bird each fond endearment tries. To tempt her new-fledged offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reproved each dull delay. Allured to brighter... | |
 | Amelia Opie - 2003 - 382 Seiten
...Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And even 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. (1. 163-166) those whom her thoughtlessness wounded, her heart bled to heal. 1 She was therefore constantly... | |
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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... 
