 | Aaron Crossley Hobart Seymour - 1820 - 326 pages
...scuson and tut of season; reproving, rebuking, and exhorting with all long-mjj'ering and gentleness: " And, as a bird each fond endearment tries, To tempt...skies; He tried each art, reproved each dull delay, Allur'd to brighter worlds, and led the way." On the 17th of February, 1685, aged 71, he bid adieu... | |
 | Friedrich Johann Jacobsen - English poetry - 1820 - 796 pages
...tempt her new-fledg'd offspring to the skies; He tried each art, reprov'd each dull delay, 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' dt The rev'rend champion stood. At his control Despair... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1820 - 636 pages
...to Virtue's side; . „ ;But in his duty prompt at every call, ' ^ He watcu'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 tried each art, reprov'd each dull delay, Alhir'd to... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 236 pages
...relieve the wretched was his pride, And even his failings leaned to virtue's side ; But in his duty prompt at every call, He watched and wept, he prayed...the 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... | |
 | John Bowdler - Hymns, English - 1821 - 510 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 its new-fledg'd offspring to the skies ; He tried each art, reprov'd each dull delay, Allur'd to brighter... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 314 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 its new-fledg'd offspring to the skies, He try'd each art, reprov'd each dull delay, Allur'd to brighter... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 296 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...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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Bible - 1822 - 194 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...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... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 290 pages
...lear1'd to virtue's side; But in his duty prompt, at every call, He watch'd and wept, he pray'd aqd felt, for all: And, as a bird each fond endearment...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... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - English poetry - 1822 - 428 pages
...To tempt the new-fledgM offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reprov'd each dull delay, 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... | |
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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... 
