| Asa Cummings - 1839 - 510 páginas
...constant solicitude, and of the various exertions to which it prompted him, are the lines of the poet : " And as a bird each fond endearment tries " To tempt...delay, " Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way." MP 23* It would be matter for lamentation if the preceding statements of insulated facts should be... | |
| Asa Cummings - 1830 - 460 páginas
...with very little effect." — How appropriate to this beloved pastor are the lines of Goldsmith ." And as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt...delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way." • ' Suppose you take the capacity for happiness, which has been said by philosophers to be the only... | |
| Asa Cummings - 1830 - 434 páginas
...solicitude, and of the various exertions to which it prompted him, are the lines of the poet : — " And as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt...delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way." It would be matter for lamentation, if the preceding statements of insulated facts should be so interpreted... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 páginas
...watched nnd wept, he prayed and felt for all ; And, as a bird each fond endearment tries, To tempt. NT Beside the bed where parting life was laid. And sorrow, guilt, and pain, by turns dismayed, The reverend... | |
| Asa Cummings - 1830 - 416 páginas
...are the lines of the poet:— " And as a. bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-flcdgcd offspring to the skies, ", He tried each art, reproved...delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way." It would be matter for lamentation, if the preceding statements of insulated facts should be so interpreted... | |
| John Pierpont - 1831 - 294 páginas
...their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his prider And even his failings leaned to virtue's side : But,...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... | |
| Susan Ferrier - 1831 - 358 páginas
...to virtue's side; But in his duty prompt at every call, He watch'd, iind wept, and felt, and pray'd for all ; And as a bird each fond endearment tries,...delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way." " Allow me, in the meantime, to lead the way to something more substantial, Miss Lucy," cried Mr M'Dow,... | |
| Susan Ferrier - 1831 - 508 páginas
...to virtue's side ; But in his duty prompt at every call, He watch'd, and wept, and felt, and pray'd for all ; And as a bird each fond endearment tries,...each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led (he way." " Allow me, in the meantime, to lead the way to something more substantial, Miss Lucy," cried... | |
| Charles Hodge - 1831 - 612 páginas
...me, and I am happy. Whatever may be thought of these plans, yet they show the character of the man. " And as a bird each fond endearment tries, To tempt...delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way." We would most gladly record on our pages, the account of the exit from the world of this eminently... | |
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 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,...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... | |
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