 | 1856 - Страниц: 754
...failings leaned to virtue s aide ! 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...delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way. In reforming the moral and social condition of Alderley, his efforts were most indefatigable, and generally... | |
 | Henry Clay Fish - 1856 - Страниц: 1270
...transitory, he seized, to guide the attention which it awakened, to some wise and important purpose. " And as a bird each fond endearment tries, To tempt...delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way." Hear his own language — " Though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all... | |
 | Bridgewater (Mass.) - 1856 - Страниц: 172
...hour; Far other aims his heart had learned to prize, — More bent to raise the wretched than to rise. And as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt...delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way." There was also, in each of the parishes, the place — It may, however, have been flip, or good old... | |
 | Bridgewater (Mass.) - 1856 - Страниц: 198
...hour; Far other aims his heart had learned to prize, — More bent to raise the wretched than to rise. And as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt...delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way." There was also, in each of the parishes, the place — " Where gray-beard mirth and smiling toil retired... | |
 | English poetry - 1857 - Страниц: 334
...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...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, 183 9 The... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1857 - Страниц: 560
...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...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... | |
 | Henry Harbaugh - 1857 - Страниц: 428
...consolations of the Gospel. " In all his duty prompt, at every call, lie watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all ; And as a bird each fond endearment...delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way." KEV. DANIEL WAGNER. 1750—1810. THERE are few lives more pleasant to contemplate than that of Mr.... | |
 | Maxwell Pierson Gaddis - 1857 - Страниц: 564
...sermon; here he sung his last hymn; here he breathed his last prayer. "Ho watched, he wept, he prayed, he felt for all ; And as a bird each fond endearment...each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds — and lod the way." Like your own pleasant Barrett, he fell in your midst, all harnessed for the fight. '•... | |
 | Julia Cecilia Stretton - 1857 - Страниц: 326
...And e'en his failings leaned 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...new-fledged offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reprov'd each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way." GOLDSMITH. THE next day was... | |
 | Charles Peter Mason - 1858 - Страниц: 216
...pride, And e'en his failings lean'd to Virtue's side ; Bat in his duty prompt at every call, He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt for all ; And as a bird...delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way. The chequer'd earth seems restless as a flood Brush'd by the wind. So sportive is the light Shot through... | |
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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... 
