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... Songs of Three Centuries - Seite 66herausgegeben von - 1875 - 352 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Susan Ferrier - 1831 - 508 Seiten
...virtue's side ; But in his duty prompt at every call, He watch'd, and wept, and felt, and pray'd for all ; And as a bird each fond endearment tries, To tempt...each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led (he way." " Allow me, in the meantime, to lead the way to something more substantial, Miss Lucy," cried... | |
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 Seiten
...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...way. Beside the bed where parting life was laid, And sorrow, guilt, and pain, by turns dismayed, The reverend champion stood. At his control Despair and... | |
| Richard Brindley Hone - 1833 - 414 Seiten
...pain. ***** 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...delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way. GOLDSMITH'S Deserted Village. THE small revenues of the bishopric of Man amounted in the time of bishop... | |
| 1834 - 606 Seiten
...portion for ever. In duty prompt at every с ill, He watched and wept, be prayed and felt. for all ; And as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt...delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way. Mr. Clement died, February }7tb, 1812, aged sixty-three. The Rev. John Rees, from the Stepney Academy,... | |
| 1834 - 472 Seiten
...he performed the last ritus of friendship "Beside the bed where parting life was laid, And sorrow, guilt and pain by turns dismayed, The reverend champion...came down, the trembling wretch to raise, And his hist faultering accents whispered praise. " The life of Dr. Balch was often chequered with many severe... | |
| Samuel Worcester - 1837 - 264 Seiten
...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...delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way. 6. Beside the bed where parting life was laid, And sorrow, guilt, and pain, by turns dismayed, The... | |
| Caroline Howard Gilman - 1838 - 290 Seiten
...race, the happiness Of one poor individual, Or of uunumber'd thousands be attain'd." SG BOLLFINCH. " And as a bird each fond endearment tries, To tempt...delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way." GOLDSMITH. THERE is no moral object so beautiful to me as a conscientious young man! I watch him as... | |
| Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 Seiten
...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...way. Beside the bed where parting life was laid, And sorrow, guilt, and pain, by turns dismayed, The reverend champion stood. At his control Despair and... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1839 - 242 Seiten
...virtue's side; But in his duty prompt at every call, He watck'd and wept, he pray'd and felt for all ; And, as a bird each fond endearment tries, To tempt...way. Beside the bed where parting life was laid, And sorrow, guilt, and pain, by turns dismay'd, The reverend champion stood. At his controul, Despair and... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1839 - 550 Seiten
...virtue's side; But in his duty prompt at every call, He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt for all; inute, Reside the lied where parting life was laid, And sorrow, guilt, and pain, by turns dismay'd, The reverend... | |
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