Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. 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,... Centennial Papers - Página 139por Congregational Churches in Connecticut. General Conference - 1877 - 214 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| George Croly - 1850 - 442 páginas
...vices in their wo ; Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And even...failings leaned to virtue's side ; But in his duty prompt nt every call, He watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all : And, as a bird each fond endearment... | |
| Edward Everett - 1859 - 872 páginas
...solemn fast of preparation, and preached to them the last sermon they were to hear from his lips : — prompt at every call, He watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all. • The authorship of this paper rests upon the authority of Hubbard, who speaks of it as a thing "... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1850 - 608 páginas
...so much of the genuine essence of poetry. How perfect, in every way, are such lines as these, — " pray'd and felt for all ; And, as a bird each fond endoarment trie?, To tempt its new-fledged offspring... | |
| 1850 - 604 páginas
...so much of the genuine essence of poetry. How perfect, in every way, 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 tries, To tempt its new-fledged offspring... | |
| 1850 - 806 páginas
...much of the genuine essence of poetry. How perfect, in every way, are such lines as these, — ••' But in his duty prompt at every call, He watched and wept. he pray M and felt fox all; And, as a bird each fond endearment tries, To tempt its new-fledged offspring... | |
| James Witt Sewell - 1911 - 354 páginas
...faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings leaned to virtue's side; But in his duty...call, He watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all. LESSONS 159, 160. DESCRIPTION. Exercise 1. — After reviewing the directions in Lesson 134, write... | |
| William Macneile Dixon - 1911 - 792 páginas
...pity gave ere charity began. 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... | |
| 1911 - 784 páginas
...vices in their woe; Careless their merits or their 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 duty prompt at every call, He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt... | |
| Ellye Howell Glover - 1912 - 318 páginas
...Prophesy: Around my fire an evening group to draw, And tell of all I felt and all I saw. Our Guide: But in his duty, prompt at every call, He watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all. Destination — Our Married Sisters : Let school-taught pride dissemble all it can, These little things... | |
| Stanislas M. Keenan - 1913 - 454 páginas
...honors, and full of holiness." "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." — Goldsmith. > > > s*-^- -^— A- <r ^ ••, X Mfe:'.T... | |
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