 | Bridgewater (Mass.) - 1856 - 172 lehte
...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 - 198 lehte
...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 - 334 lehte
...Shoulder'd his crutch, and show'd how fields were won. Pleased with his guests, the good man learn'd to glow, And quite forgot their vices in their woe...laid, And sorrow, guilt, and pain, by turns dismay'd, 183 9 The reverend champion stood. At his control, Despair and anguish fled the struggling soul ; Comfort... | |
 | Henry Harbaugh - 1857 - 428 lehte
...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.... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1857 - 394 lehte
...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;... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1857 - 428 lehte
...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... | |
 | Charles William Smith (professor of elocution.) - 1857 - 338 lehte
...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... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1858 - 336 lehte
...faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And even his failings lean'd to virtue's side ; But in his...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... | |
 | Ernest Bernbaum - 1918 - 412 lehte
...was his pride, And e'en his failings leaned to Virtue's side; Bat in his duty prompt at every call, And, as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt...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;... | |
 | Vida Dutton Scudder - 1919 - 572 lehte
...tempt its new-fledg'd offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reprov'd each dull delay, n0 Allur'd to brighter worlds, and led the way. Beside the bed...control, Despair and anguish fled the struggling soul; 176 Comfort came down the trembling wretch to raise, And his last faltering accents whisper' d praise.... | |
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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... 
