 | Richard Salter Storrs - 1836 - 430 oldal
...wept, and 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 art, reproved...delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way." SAMUEL GREEN. 99 While thus laboriously engaged, he would pleasantly say — " let us feel with good... | |
 | 1836 - 368 oldal
...and eminent Christian are the lines of Goldsmith ; — " And ш л bird each fond endearment trice, To tempt its new-fledged offspring to the skies ;...art. reproved each dull delay. Allured to brighter world» and led the way." THE STATE OF THE CHURCH IN RUSSIA. No. II. BY THOMAS BROWN, ESQ., Author... | |
 | 1836 - 784 oldal
...wept, he prayed, he 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 each dull delay. Allured to brighter worlds, anii led the way. TO AN INFANT. THINE eyes of infant eloquence are closed in slumbers light, Like moon-lit... | |
 | 1826 - 440 oldal
...unseen and spiritual world, without an involuntary application of Goldsmith's similitude — " Just as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-fledged offspring to the skies ; She tried each art, and checked each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way." But... | |
 | President of a college - 1836 - 156 oldal
...this figure? A. "A virtuous man, slandered by evil tongues, is like a diamond obscured by smoke." " And, as a bird each fond endearment tries, To tempt its new-fledged -of&pring to the skied, He tried each art, reproved each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and... | |
 | Samuel Worcester - 1837 - 264 oldal
...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. 6. Beside the bed where parting life was laid, And sorrow, guilt, and pain, by turns dismayed, The... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 472 oldal
...virtue's 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 new-fledged offspring to the skies, He triell each art, reproved each dull delay, £ • Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way. The... | |
 | Truth - 1837 - 566 oldal
...dilatory ; he used arguments which convinced, and gave the cordial of encouragement to the diffident — " He tried each art, reproved each dull delay. Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way." A perfect example of exactness and punctuality himself, he rigidly required it in others ; the omission... | |
 | Caroline Howard Gilman - 1838 - 290 oldal
...race, the happiness Of one poor individual, Or of uunumber'd thousands be attain'd." SG BOLLFINCH. " And as a bird each fond endearment tries, To tempt...delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way." GOLDSMITH. THERE is no moral object so beautiful to me as a conscientious young man! I watch him as... | |
 | Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 oldal
...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...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... | |
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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... 
