 | John Pierpont - 1828 - 320 pages
...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...life was laid, And sorrow, guilt, and pain, by turns dismayed, The reverend champion stood. At his control Despair and anguish fled the struggling soul;... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1829 - 290 pages
...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...life was laid, And sorrow, guilt, and pain, by turns dismayed, The reverend champion stood. At his control Despair and anguish fled the struggling soul... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1830 - 544 pages
...virtue's side; But in his duty prompt at every call, He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt for all; ar : I heard a hissing — there are serpenU here!...we've Uid her, His honour is no mercenary trader. not, And his last falt'ring accents whiper'd praise. At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 pages
...watched nnd wept, he prayed and felt for all ; And, as a bird each fond endearment tries, To tempt. NT dismayed, The reverend champion stood. At his control Despair and anguish fled the struggling soul... | |
 | Asa Cummings - 1830 - 530 pages
...with very little effect.' — How appropriate to this beloved pastor are the lines of Goldsmith : ' And as a bird each fond endearment tries. To tempt...delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way. bassador he was. He could scarcely utter a word without rendering it obvious to all who heard him,... | |
 | Asa Cummings - 1830 - 434 pages
...solicitude, and of the various exertions to which it prompted him, are the lines of the poet : — " And as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt...delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way." It would be matter for lamentation, if the preceding statements of insulated facts should be so interpreted... | |
 | Asa Cummings - 1830 - 460 pages
...with very little effect." — How appropriate to this beloved pastor are the lines of Goldsmith ." And as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt...delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way." • ' Suppose you take the capacity for happiness, which has been said by philosophers to be the only... | |
 | Asa Cummings - 1839 - 510 pages
...constant solicitude, and of the various exertions to which it prompted him, are the lines of the poet : " And as a bird each fond endearment tries " To tempt...delay, " Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way." MP 23* It would be matter for lamentation if the preceding statements of insulated facts should be... | |
 | Charles Hodge - 1831 - 612 pages
...me, and I am happy. Whatever may be thought of these plans, yet they show the character of the man. " And as a bird each fond endearment tries, To tempt...delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way." We would most gladly record on our pages, the account of the exit from the world of this eminently... | |
 | Susan Ferrier - 1831 - 358 pages
...virtue's side; But in his duty prompt at every call, He watch'd, iind wept, and felt, and pray'd for all ; And as a bird each fond endearment tries, To tempt...delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way." " Allow me, in the meantime, to lead the way to something more substantial, Miss Lucy," cried Mr M'Dow,... | |
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Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his 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-fledged offspring... 
