 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 398 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...delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way. Beside the bed where parting life was laid, And sorrow, guilt, and pain, by turns dismay'd, The reverend... | |
 | 1870 - 406 oldal
...watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all; And as a bird each fond emloflrment tries To tempt her new-fledged offspring to the skies, He tried each...delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way." There is a latent power for good possessed by teachers which is little dreamed of — a mild, beneficent... | |
 | Thomas Timpson - 1841 - 368 oldal
...affection and concern she sought their welfare. " She watch'd and wept, she pray'd and felt for all And as a bird each fond endearment tries, To tempt its new-fledged offspring to the skies ; She tried each art, reproved each fond delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way." Mrs.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1842 - 446 oldal
...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...delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way. Beside the bed where parting life was laid, And sorrow, guilt, and pain, by turns dismay'd, The reverend... | |
 | Robert Cassie Waterston - 1842 - 338 oldal
...diffusing religious instruction. Thus may parent and teacher unite in one common cause — " And, as the bird each fond endearment tries, To tempt its new-fledged offspring to the skies ; So try each art, reprove each dull delay, Allure to brighter worlds, and lead the way." TO A CHILD.... | |
 | 1843 - 184 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. Beside the bed where parting life was laid, And sorrow, guilt, and pain, by turns dismayed, The reverend... | |
 | 1843 - 606 oldal
...so he devises liberally, and lays out plans for their benefit, according to his ability to execute. "And as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-fledged offspring to the skiei, He tries each art, reproves each dull delay, Allures to brighter worlds and leadi the way."... | |
 | 1843 - 592 oldal
...so 'he devises liberally, and lays out ans for their benefit, according to his ability to execute. " And as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-fledged offspring to the skiei, He tries each art, reproves each dull delay, • Allures to brighter worlds and leads the way."... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 110 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...delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way. Beside the bed where parting life was laid, And sorrow, guilt, and pain, by turns dismay'd, The reverend... | |
 | 1871 - 870 oldal
...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... | |
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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... 
