 | 1843 - 184 oldal
...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...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... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 110 oldal
...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...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
...the welfare of his people, his biographer aptly quotes the well-known lines : " And as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-fledged offspring...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 oldal
...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...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... | |
 | 1845 - 614 oldal
...his duty prompt at CVPJV call, He watched and wept, he prayed and felt, for allAnd, as a bird each . The day's disasters in his morning face; Full well...for many a joke had he; Full well the busy whisper Beside the bed where parting life was laid, And sorrow, guilt, and pain, by turns dismayed, The reverend... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1845 - 550 oldal
...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 its new-fledged offspring...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... | |
 | 1846 - 512 oldal
...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 new-fledged offspring...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 oldal
...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 new-fledged offspring...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... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1849 - 1154 oldal
...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 new-fledged offspring...delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way." CHAPTEB XXV. DINNER AT BICKERSTAFF'S. — HIPFERNAN AND HIS IMPECCNIOSITT. — KE!«RICK'S El'IORAM.... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1849 - 466 oldal
...duty prompt at every call, He watched and wept, he prayed and felt, for all. 25 And, as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-fledged offspring...delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way. Beside the bed where parting life was laid, 30 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... 
