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 Deserted Village: A Poem - Página 10de Oliver Goldsmith - 1770 - 23 páginasVisualização completa - Sobre este livro
| Richard Brindley Hone - 1833 - 414 páginas
...chid their wandering, but relieved their pain. ***** But in his duty prompt, at every call He watch'd 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... | |
| 1833 - 490 páginas
...affection indulges ; " And in his duty, prompt to every call, Will watch, and weep, and pray, and feel for all; And, as a bird each fond endearment tries, To tempt its new-fledged offspring to the skies, — He'll try each art, reprove each dull delay, Allure to brighter... | |
| John Gillies - 1834 - 672 páginas
...season and out of season ; reproving, rebuking, and exhorting with all long suffering and gentleness. " 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, Allur'd to brighter worlds, and led the way."... | |
| Derbyshire Archaeological Society - 1883 - 252 páginas
...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... | |
| 1920 - 694 páginas
...swept his aged breast, Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave, ere charity began. But in his duty prompt at every call He watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all." [B. I, No. 82l MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS RELATING TO JEWS IN WARS OF UNITED STATES AND CORRESPONDENCE WITH... | |
| Robert Moats Miller - 1985 - 637 páginas
...member of the Riverside flock, Fosdick's response was akin to Goldsmith's portrait of a shepherd : "But in his duty prompt at every call, / He watched and wept and prayed and felt for all." The thousands of services he conducted were simple yet stately; the spirit... | |
| Robert H. Bremner - 260 páginas
...charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And even 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.10 Early in William Cowper's "Charity" (1782) the poet advises students of the subject: Who seeks... | |
| Maine Historical Society - 1995 - 458 páginas
...hour : For other aims his heart had learnt to pri/e, More bent to raise the wretched than to rise." "But in his duty, prompt at every call, He watched...felt for all : And, as a bird each fond endearment ti'ics To tempt its new fledged offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reproved each dull delay,... | |
| Charles R. Henery - 1995 - 176 páginas
...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 worlds,... | |
| American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia - 1922 - 374 páginas
...know not. It certainly did not please his people, who applied to him the words of the poet : ". . . in his duty prompt at every call, He watched and wept,...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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