 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1805 - 264 pages
...ti•Mj& ,tttet4sj£ A&K'&cidr& .t / But in his duty prompt, at ev'ry 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-fledg'd offspring to the skies, He try'd each art, reprov'd each dull delay, Allur'd to brighter... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1805 - 1054 pages
...lean'd to Virtue's fide ; lJut, in his duty prompt at ev'ry call, .He watch'd and wept, he pray 'd and felt for all. .And, as a bird each fond endearment tries, To tempt her new-fledg'd offspring to the Ikies lie tried each art, reprov'd each dull delay, Allur'd to brighter... | |
 | Education, George Nicholson - Education - 1805 - 276 pages
...admonitions are sincere. '( In all his duty, prompt at ev'ry call, he watches, weeps, he prays, and frels for all. And, as a bird each fond endearment tries to tempt his new-fledg'd offspring to the skirs, he tries each art, reproves each dull delay, allnr'd to brighter... | |
 | Solomon Hodgson - Conduct of life - 1806 - 362 pages
...lean'd to Virtue's fide ; 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 ncw-fledg'd offspring to the fkies ; He try'd each art, reprov'd each dull delay, Allur"d to brighter... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1806 - 360 pages
...failings lean'd to Virtue's fide; 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-fledg'd offspring to the fkies; He try'd each art, reprov'd each dull delay, , Carelefs their merits,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pages
...failings lean'd to 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-fledg'd offspring to the skies, He try'd each art, reprov'd each dull delay* Allur'd to brighter... | |
 | E Tomkins - 1806 - 280 pages
...tempt its new-fledg'd offspring to the skies, He try'd each art, reprov'd each dull dela3', Allur'd 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 champion stood. At his control, Despair... | |
 | Poetry - 1806 - 330 pages
...failings lean'd to virtue's side ; But in his duty prompt at ev'ry call, He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt, for all. And as a bird each fond endearment tries, To tempt his new-fledg'd offspring to the skies, He try'd each art, reprov'd each dull delay, Allur'd to brighter... | |
 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1808 - 434 pages
...failings lean'd to 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-fledg'd offspring to the skies ; He try'd each art, reprov'd each dull delay, Allur'd to brighter... | |
 | 1808 - 512 pages
...minister, nothing was overlooked " But in his duty prompt at ev'ry 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-fledg'd offspring to the skies ; He try'd each art, reprov'd each dull delay, I to brighter worlds,... | |
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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... 
