 | Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 498 Seiten
...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 rev'rend champion stood. At his control Despair and anguish fled the struggling soul;... | |
 | Friedrich Johann Jacobsen - 1820 - 796 Seiten
...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' dt The rev'rend champion stood. At his control Despair and anguish ßed the struggling soul;... | |
 | John Bowdler - 1821 - 510 Seiten
...the skies ; He tried each art, reprov'd each dull delay, Allur'd to brighter worlds, and led the way. The reverend champion stood. At his control, Despair...came down the trembling wretch to raise, And his last fait' ring accents whispered praise. At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorn'd the... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 314 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 control, Despair and anguish fled the struggling soul;... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 446 Seiten
...laid, And sorrow, guilt, and pain, by turns dismay'd, The reverend champion stood. At his controul, Despair and anguish fled the struggling soul ; Comfort...trembling wretch to raise, And his last faltering accents whisper 'd praise. At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorn'd the venerable place... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 296 Seiten
...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 to the skies, He tried each...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;... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1822 - 194 Seiten
...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 to the skies, He tried each...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... | |
 | 1838 - 1014 Seiten
...member of the family. ' But in his duty prompt at every call, He watch'd, and wept, and pray'd, nnd felt for all ; And as a bird each fond endearment...delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way.' " Indeed, having once known an individual, he seems never to have forgotten him. In his last letter... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 290 Seiten
...the way. Beside the bed where parting life was laid, And sorrow, guilt, and pain by turns dismay'd, The reverend champion stood. At his control, Despair...trembling wretch to raise, And his last faltering accents whisper'd praise. At church, with meek and unaffected grace, , His looks adorn'd the venerable place... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 428 Seiten
...To tempt the new-fledgM 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... | |
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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... 
