 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 to the skies, He tried each art, reproved each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds,...  The Speaker, Or, Miscellaneous Pieces: Selected from the Best English ... - Trang 231bởi William Enfield - 1805 - 396 trangXem Toàn bộ - Giới thiệu về cuốn sách này
 | John Pierpont - 1829 - 290 trang
...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 to the skies, He tried each art, reproved each dull delay, Allured to brighter... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 trang
...pride, And even 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...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 worlds, and led the way. .... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1830 - 544 trang
...pride, And e'en his failings lean'd to virtue's side; But in his duty prompt at every call, He watch'd » The inhabitants are cannibals, I fear : I heard a hissing — there are serpenU here! O, t new-fledged offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reproved each dull delay, Allured to brighter... | |
 | 1832 - 448 trang
...encouraging the faint, and, in short, using every means to wean from sin and stimulate to holiness. " 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 worlds, and led the way. "'... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 trang
...failings leaned to virtue's side ; But, in his duty prompt at every call, He watched nnd wept, he prayed ch he lies I No pitying heart, no eve, afford A tear to NT new-fledged offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reproved each dull delay, Allured to brighter... | |
 | 1830 - 410 trang
...various schools may be " In duly prompt, ohey its every call, And watch, and weep, and pray, and feel for all; And as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new fledg'd offspring to the skies, Still try each art, reprove each dull delay, Allure to brighter... | |
 | Derbyshire Archaeological Society - 1883 - 252 trang
...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 her new-fledg'd offspring to the skies, He try'd each art, reproved each dull delay, Allured to brighter... | |
 | Charles R. Henery - 1995 - 176 trang
...pride And e'n 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 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... | |
 | G. S. Rousseau - 1995 - 420 trang
...piety by which he wins them to paths of holiness and peace, if not matchless, has never been excelled: '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 worlds, and led the way." If... | |
 | American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia - 1922 - 374 trang
...him the words of the poet : ". . . 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 her new-fledged offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reproved each dull delay. Allured to brighter... | |
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