| 1845 - 614 Seiten
...virtue's side ; But in his duty prompt at CVPJV call, He watched and wept, he prayed and felt, for allAnd, 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... | |
| John Pring - 1845 - 224 Seiten
...sufferer's heart, Thus of him, those who godliness admire, May truly say, as Goldsmith, of his sire,— " He tried each art, reproved each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way."1 As some rich cluster of Autumnal fruit, In ripened beauty trembles on the shoot, Then yielding... | |
| Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 Seiten
...a bird each fond endearment tries, To tempt her new-fledged offspring to the skies ; He tried eacli art, reproved each dull 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... | |
| 1846 - 512 Seiten
...author. ' ' Firm to 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 its...delay, Allured to brighter worlds and led the way." By those who are younger in the ministry a brighter li ving example could scarcely be selected, and... | |
| 1846 - 604 Seiten
...each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-fledged offspring to the skies ; She tried each heart — reproved each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds and led the way." She was very cautious in promising any thing to us, and as careful m performing her promises ; for... | |
| 1848 - 592 Seiten
...apply — ' And in his duty prompt at every call, He watched 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 ! ' " * Bishop Doane, of New Jersey, in a speech in St. Mary's Hall, Coventry. OXFOHD AND CAMBRIDGE... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1847 - 290 Seiten
...watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all j 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. Beside the bed, where parting life was laid, And sorrow, guilt, and pain, by turns dismayed, The reverend... | |
| 1852 - 788 Seiten
...thoughts had rest in heav'n. -**** And as a bird each fond endearment tries, To tempt his new-fledg'd offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reproved...delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way." THE LOSS OF THE WHITE SHIP. "THOUGH the sinking sun be low, and the waves be foaming white," Said Prince... | |
| Maine Historical Society - 1847 - 406 Seiten
...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 art, reproved...delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way." •He graduated at Cambridge, in 1757, and died in 1809. HISTORY OF BATH. READ BEFORE THE LYCEUM IN... | |
| Maine Historical Society - 1847 - 396 Seiten
...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 art, reproved...delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way." • *He graduated at Cambridge, in 1757, and died in 1809. . _ i '. • ' • . ' ' • • ' I •... | |
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