 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, and led the way. Beside the bed where parting life was laid, And sorrow, guilt, and pain,...  The Poetical Works of Goldsmith, Collins, and T. Warton: With Lives ... - Page 19by Oliver Goldsmith, William Collins, George Gilfillan, Thomas Warton - 1854 - 303 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Jacques Delille - French literature - 1800 - 286 pages
...<.-. He try'd each art, reprov'd cach 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 rev'rend champion stood. At his controul, « Despair and anguish fled the struggling soul ; «. Comfort... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1800 - 192 pages
...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 rev'rend champion stood. At his control, Despair and anguish fled the struggling soul; Comfort came... | |
 | Jacques Delille - 1800 - 284 pages
...„ He try'd each art, repfov'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 rev'rend champion stood. At his controul, « Despair and anguish fled the struggling soul; « Comfort... | |
 | Regina Maria Roche - Irish fiction - 1801 - 312 pages
...says, a broken and a contrite heart shall not be rejected : " At his comroul " Despair and angnish fled the struggling soul, " Comfort came down the trembling wretch to raise " And his last falt'ring accents whisper'd praise." Previous to his becoming an inhabitant of Wyefield he had mixed... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1803 - 192 pages
...the skies j He try'd 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 rev'rend champion stood. At his controul, Despair and anguish fled the struggling sou] ; Comfort came... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1804 - 114 pages
...the skies, He tried each art, reproved each dull 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 champion stood. At his control, Despair and anguish fled the struggling soul... | |
 | E. Tomkins - 1804 - 416 pages
...stood; At his control, Despair and angsish fled the struggling vml, Comfort came' dowfi the tremhling wretch to raise, And his last faltering accents- whisper'd praise. At church, with meek add unaffected grace, His looks adorn'd the venerahle place; Truth from his lips prevail'd with douhle... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1805 - 264 pages
...the skies, He try'd 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 rev'rend champion stood. At his controul, Despair and anguish fled the struggling soul ; Comfort came... | |
 | Education, George Nicholson - Education - 1805 - 276 pages
...each dull delay, allnr'd to brighter worHs, he leads the way. Beside the bed where parting li>e is laid, and sorrow, guilt. and pain, by turns dismay'd, the reverend champion stands. At hii controul, despair and anguish fly the struggling soul; comfort comes down the trembling... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pages
...the skies, He try'd 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 dismayM, The rev'rend champion stood. At his control, Despair and anguish fled the struggling soul... | |
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