 | John Pierpont - 1828 - 320 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... | |
 | William Jay - 1828 - 408 Seiten
...And, " As a bird each fond endearment tries, " To tempt her new-fledged offspring to the skien, " They tried each art, reproved each dull delay, " Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way !" 12 It is thus their children rise up and called them blessed ! — Let us view it, Fourthly, in... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1829 - 290 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... | |
 | William Leggett - 1829 - 250 Seiten
...Goldsmith's Deserted Village, his divine precepts received a forcible illustration from his example. " He tried each art, reproved each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way." To console the widowhood, and engage the attention of his bereaved partner, a son, the sole remaining... | |
 | William Leggett - 1829 - 248 Seiten
...GoldsmithV Deserted Village, his divine precepts received a forcible illustration from his example. " Ho tried each art, reproved each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way.'' To console the widowhood, and engage the attention of his bereaved partner, a son, the sole remaining... | |
 | 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 its...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... | |
 | Asa Cummings - 1830 - 530 Seiten
...very little effect.' — How appropriate to this beloved pastor are the lines of Goldsmith : ' And as a bird each fond endearment tries. To tempt its...delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way. bassador he was. He could scarcely utter a word without rendering it obvious to all who heard him,... | |
 | Asa Cummings - 1839 - 510 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 its...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 - 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 its...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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1830 - 544 Seiten
...virtue's side; But in his duty prompt at every call, He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt for all; And, I heard a hissing — there are serpenU here! O, there...craves assistance; Our ship's well stored — in y Beside the bed where parting life was laid, And sorrow, guilt, and pain, by turns dismay'd, The reverend... | |
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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... 
