 | English poets - 1847 - 144 Seiten
...wept, and prayed, and felt for all ; And as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt her new-fledg'd offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reproved...delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way." His Hermit, or Edwin and Angelina, is a sweetlypleasing tale. It was at one time thought to have been... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 Seiten
...watched and wept, he prayed and 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. Beside the bed where parting life was laid, And sorrow, guilt, and pain, by turns dismayed, The reverend... | |
 | Pictor (pseud.) - 1848 - 118 Seiten
...wept, he prayed and felt for all, And, as a bird each fond endearment tries, To tempt his new fledged offspring to the skies ; He tried each art, reproved...delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way." ********** "His ready smile a parent's warmth exprest, Their welfare pleased him, and their cares distrest... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1848 - 566 Seiten
...exhibit the power of the author. Such was the Father, a man whom "not e'en critics criticised," " Who tried each art, reproved each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds and led the way." A perfect counterpart to him of Auburn, or the one described by Cowper, or by McKenzie himself in the... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1849 - 1154 Seiten
...them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in heaven. And, as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its...delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way." CHAPTEB XXV. DINNER AT BICKERSTAFF'S. — HIPFERNAN AND HIS IMPECCNIOSITT. — KE!«RICK'S El'IORAM.... | |
 | 1897 - 960 Seiten
...church, noted for his earnest eloquence in the pulpit and his missionary work among the poor, with whom " He tried each art, reproved each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds and led the way;" and his mother was Sarah Leader, a Nova Scotian by birth, a suitable helpmate for her husband in works... | |
 | American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia - 1922 - 374 Seiten
...watched and wept, he prayed and 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. Beside the bed where parting life was laid, And sorrow, guilt, and pain, by turns dismayed. The reverend... | |
 | Gordon Mursell - 2001 - 604 Seiten
...virtues 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... | |
 | George Boardman Taylor - 1872 - 378 Seiten
...States now raise in a year for the same object. Goldsmith's "Deserted Village" describes him: "And as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its...delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way." .... If he built a church-house, it was capacious, neat, lasting and strong. External ornament rots... | |
 | Diane Ravitch, Michael Ravitch - 2006 - 512 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. Despair and anguish fled the struggling soul; Comfort came down the trembling wretch to raise, And... | |
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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... 
