 | Quotations, English - 1847 - 526 pages
...13. She points the arduous height where glory lies, And teaches mad ambition to be wise. POPE. 14. Beside the bed where parting life was laid, And sorrow,...down, the trembling wretch to raise, And his last, faltering accents whisper'd praise. GOLDSMITH'S Deserted foliage. 15. Virtue on herself relying, Every... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1847 - 540 pages
...13. She points the arduous height where glory lies, And teaches mad ambition to be wise. POPE. 14. Beside the bed where parting life was laid, And sorrow,...down, the trembling wretch to raise, And his last, faltering accents whisper'd praise. GOLDSMITH'S Deserted Tillage. 15. Virtue on herself relying, Every... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1847 - 290 pages
...watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all j And, as a bird each fond endearment tries, To tempt her new-fledged offspring to the skies, He tried each...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... | |
 | 1848 - 592 pages
...apply — ' And in his duty prompt at every call, He watched and wept, he pray'd and felt for all. ug X 6 ! ' " * Bishop Doane, of New Jersey, in a speech in St. Mary's Hall, Coventry. OXFOHD AND CAMBRIDGE... | |
 | John Forster - 1848 - 740 pages
...tempt its new-fledged offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reprov'd each dull delay, Allur'd to brighter worlds, and led the way. Beside the bed...came down the trembling wretch to raise, And his last faltering accents whisper'd praise. At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorn'd the... | |
 | John Forster - Authors, English - 1848 - 734 pages
...tempt its new-fledged offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reprov'd each dull delay, Allur'd to brighter worlds, and led the way. Beside the bed...came down the trembling wretch to raise, And his last faltering accents whisper'd praise. At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorn'd the... | |
 | Joachim Fernau - 1848 - 736 pages
...tempt its new-fledged offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reprov'd each dull delay, Allur'd to brighter worlds, and led the way. Beside the bed...came down the trembling wretch to raise, And his last faltering accents whispcr'd praise. At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorn' d the... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - Elocution - 1849 - 466 pages
...virtue's side; But in his duty prompt at every call, He watched and wept, he prayed and felt, for all. 25 And, as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt...the way. Beside the bed where parting life was laid, 30 And sorrow, guilt, and pain by turns dismayed, The reverend champion stood. At his control, Despair... | |
 | Edinburgh medical missionary society - 1849 - 354 pages
...wept, he prayed 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, reproved...life was laid, And sorrow, guilt, and pain by turns dismayed, He stood Comfort came down, the trembling wretch to raise. And his last faltering accents... | |
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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... 
