 | Washington Irving - 1849 - 1154 pages
...To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in heaven. And, as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt...delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way." CHAPTEB XXV. DINNER AT BICKERSTAFF'S. — HIPFERNAN AND HIS IMPECCNIOSITT. — KE!«RICK'S El'IORAM.... | |
 | 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...delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way. Beside the bed where parting life was laid, 30 And sorrow, guilt, and pain by turns dismayed, The reverend... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - Elocution - 1849 - 446 pages
...to scan, 20 His pity gave ere charity began. Thus, to relieve the wretched was his pride, And even his failings leaned to virtue's side; But in his duty...He watched and wept, he prayed and felt, for all. 25 And, as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-fledged offspring to the skies, He tried... | |
 | Washington Irving - Astoria (Or.) - 1849 - 416 pages
...his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in heaven. ******* And, as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt...new-fledged offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reprov'd each dull delay, AllurM to brighter worlds, and led the way." CHAPTER XXV. Dinner at BickerstafTs.—Hiffernan... | |
 | American literature - 1850 - 604 pages
...are such lines as these, — " But in his duty prompt at every call, He watched and wept, he pray'd and felt for all ; And, as a bird each fond endearment...delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way." One more remark, one other brief quotation, and we quit this most fascinating poem, which nestles deeper... | |
 | Robert H. Bremner - Social Science - 260 pages
...faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And even his failings leaned to virtue's side; But in his duty...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 - Local history - 1995 - 458 pages
...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,... | |
 | American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia - Catholics - 1922 - 374 pages
...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... | |
 | Gordon Mursell - Religion - 2001 - 604 pages
...mercantilist greed: Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings leaned to virtues side; But in his duty prompt at every call, He watched...delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way. Beside the bed where parting life was laid, And sorrow, guilt, and pain, by turns dismayed, The reverend... | |
 | Amelia Opie - Fiction - 2003 - 382 pages
...where Goldsmith describes the village preacher: "Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, / And even his failings leaned to Virtue's side; / But in his...He watched and wept, he prayed and felt, for all" (11.163-166). 3 Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 3, scene 2,11. 75-78: "Give me that man /That is not passion's... | |
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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, and led the way. 
