 | Elizabeth Tomkins - 1817 - 276 Seiten
...side ; But in his duty prompt at every call, He watch'd and wept, and pray'd, and felt, for all. And as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its...delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way. Beside the bed where parting life was laid, And sorrow, guilt, and pain, by turns dismay'd, The reverend... | |
 | 1850 - 938 Seiten
...call, Ha watched and wept, he pray'd and felt for all ; And, as a bird each fond endearment trie?, To tempt its new-fledged offspring to the skies, He...delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way." One more remark, one other brief quotation, and we quit this most fascinating poem, which nestles deeper... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 274 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 its...delay, Allured to brighter worlds* and led the way. Beside the bed where parting life was laid, And sorrow, guilt, and pain, by turns dismayed, The reverend... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 236 Seiten
...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...delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way. Beside the bed where parting life was laid, And sorrow, guilt, and pain, by turns dismayed, The reverend... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 290 Seiten
...side; But in his duty prompt, at every call, He watch'd and wept, he pray'd aqd felt, for all: And, as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its...delay, Allured .to brighter worlds, and led the way. Beside the bed where parting life was laid, And sorrow, guilt, and pain by turns dismay'd, The reverend... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1822 - 194 Seiten
...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...delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way. Beside the bed where parting life was laid, And sorrow, guilt, and pain by turns dismay'd, The reverend... | |
 | 1838 - 1014 Seiten
...watch'd, and wept, and pray'd, nnd felt for all ; And as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt her new-fledged offspring to the skies, He tried each...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... | |
 | Fireside scenes - 1825 - 920 Seiten
...the storm, Though rolling clouds around its bosom spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head. And as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its...delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way. GoLDSMITHTHE COUNTRY CURATE. JOHN CHALONER is one of my oldest friends. He has travelled along the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 476 Seiten
...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...delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way. Beside the bed where parting life was laid, And sorrow, guilt, and pain, by turns dismay'd, The reverend... | |
 | James M'Henry - 1825 - 348 Seiten
...wept, he pray'd, and felt for all. And as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt hernete-jledged offspring to the skies,. He tried each art, reproved...delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way. GOLDSMITH. AFTER breakfast the next morning, our three conspirators arranged a plan of recruiting for... | |
| |
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... 
