 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 428 страница
...faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And ev'n his failings lean'd to virtue's side ; But in his...call, He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt, for aH : And, as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt the new-fledgM offspring to the skies, He tried... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 290 страница
...pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings 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 tries To tempt its new-fledged offspring to... | |
 | 1833 - 958 страница
...conferred not with flesh and blood ; " But in her duty prompt, at every call, She watch'd and wept, she pray'd and felt, for all : And as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt her new-fledged offspring to the ikies, She tried each art, reproved eacli dull delay, i Allured to... | |
 | Charles Burton - 1823 - 234 страница
...faults to scan, His pity gave, ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And ev'n his failings lean'd to virtue's side; But in his duty...And, as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt her new-fledg'd offspring to the skies, He try'd each art, reprov'd each dull delay, Allur'd to brighter... | |
 | Andrew Reed - 1823 - 356 страница
...unseen and spiritual world, without an involuntary application of Goldsmith's similitude — " Just as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-fledged offspring to the skies ; She tried each art, and checked each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way." But... | |
 | John Newton, Richard Cecil - 1824 - 738 страница
...hour: Far other aims bis heart had learn'd to prize, More bent to raise the wretched than to rise. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en...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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 страница
...pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And even his failings Ican'd n endless error hurl'd: The glory, jest, and riddle...science Go, measure earth, weigh air, and state th ncw-fledg'd offspring to the skies, He try'd each art, reprov'd each dull delay, Allur'd to brighter... | |
 | 1824 - 728 страница
...dying penitent. Neither business nor pleasure was permitted to interrupt these holy employments, " For in his duty prompt at every call, He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt for all." Nor was he less careful to minister, perhaps even btyond his means, to the temporal wants of the afflicted.... | |
 | 1847 - 390 страница
...in the way to the heavenly fold. " Thus in his duty prompt at every call. He watch'd and wept, and 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 tried each art, reprov'd each dull delay, Allur'd to brighter... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 476 страница
...vices in their woe ; Careless their merits, or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en...new-fledged offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reproved each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way. Beside the bed where parting... | |
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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... 
