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 Oliver Goldsmith: with a notice of his life and genius ... - Página 59por Oliver Goldsmith, Edmund Forster Blanchard - 1867 - 161 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 páginas
...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... | |
| Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - 256 páginas
...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... | |
| Asa Cummings - 1839 - 510 páginas
...them " lightened." In listening to his conversation and prayers, the burden would often fall off. " Beside the bed where parting life was laid, " And sorrow, guilt, and pain, by turns dismay'd," he was at once faithful and tender ; and if " Despair and anguish fled the struggling soul," 't was... | |
| Asa Cummings - 1830 - 530 páginas
...them " lightened." In listening to his conversation and prayers, the harden would often fall off. ' Beside the bed, where parting life was laid, And sorrow, guilt, and pain, by turns dismayed ' — he was, at once, faithful and tender ; and if ' Despair and anguish fled the struggling... | |
| Asa Cummings - 1830 - 460 páginas
...them " lightened." In listening to his conversation and prayers, the burden would often fall off. " Beside the bed, where parting life was laid, And sorrow, guilt, and pain, by turns dismayed" — he was, at once, faithful and tender ; and if " Despair and anguish fled the struggling... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 páginas
...the skies, He tried each art, reproved each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way. ark the year, and mark the night. When Severn shall re-echo with affright The shr dismayed, The reverend champion stood. At his control Despair and anguish fled the struggling soul... | |
| Asa Cummings - 1830 - 434 páginas
...them " lightened." In listening to his conversation and prayers, the burden would often fall off. " Beside the bed where parting life was laid, And sorrow, guilt, and pain, by turns dismayed," . • he was at once faithful and tender ; and if " Despair and anguish fled the struggling... | |
| Joseph Emerson - 1832 - 122 páginas
...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 control. Despair and anguish fled the struggling soul... | |
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 páginas
...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 dismayed, The reverend champion stood. At his control Despair and anguish fled the struggling soul;... | |
| Asa Cummings - 1832 - 482 páginas
...the ' smitten Rock,' — to the " Lamb of God, who taketh away the sins of the world." In this way ' Comfort came down, the trembling wretch to raise : And his last faltering accents whispered praise.' He was eminently susceptible of gratitude. A favour which would be received with... | |
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