 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...  Songs of Three Centuries - Stran 66uredili: - 1875 - 352 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
 | 1871 - 870 strani
...diversified exertions for the welfare of his people, his biographer aptly quotes the well-known lines : " And as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt...delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way." When this inventive pastor had lost the sense of feeling in his right arm and left side, and so had... | |
 | 1850 - 642 strani
...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...delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way. While the memory of such a brother was yet fresh in his heart, and his grief was green, it no doubt... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1844 - 544 strani
...wept, he pray'd and felt for all; And as a bird each fond endearment tries, To tempt its new-fledg'd offspring to the skies; He tried each art, reproved...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 and... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 strani
...wept, he prayed and felt for all ; And, as a bird each fond endearment tries, To tempt her new fledged g infested all the coasts, and even the inland parts...arts of tillage and agriculture, found a certain subs sorrow, guilt, and pain, by turns dismayed, The reverend champion stood. At his control Despair and... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 strani
...wept, he prayed and felt for all ; And, as a bird each fond endearment tries, To tempt her new fledged His horse and him, unconscious of them all. But 0...music, who can say What are its tidings? have our tro sorrow, guilt, and pain, by turns dismayed, The reverend champion stood. At his control Despair and... | |
 | William Morrison Engles - 1844 - 274 strani
...wept, he prayed 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...way. Beside the bed, where parting life was laid, And sorrow, guilt, and pain, by turns dismayed, The reverend champion stood : At his control Despair and... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1845 - 550 strani
...virtue's aide; But in his duty prompt at every call, He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt for aB; And, as a bird each fond endearment tries, To tempt...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 and... | |
 | 1845 - 614 strani
...virtue's side ; But in his duty prompt at CVPJV call, He watched and wept, he prayed and felt, for allAnd, earned to trace. The day's disasters in his morning...whisper, circling round, Conveyed the dismal tidings wh sorrow, guilt, and pain, by turns dismayed, The reverend champion stood. At his control, Despair and... | |
 | 1846 - 512 strani
...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...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... | |
 | 1848 - 592 strani
...apply — ' And in his duty prompt at every call, He watched and wept, he pray'd and felt for all. ug X 6 ! ' " * Bishop Doane, of New Jersey, in a speech in St. Mary's Hall, Coventry. OXFOHD AND CAMBRIDGE... | |
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