| United States. Congress - 1838 - 684 pages
...sitting "Beside the bed where parting life wa« \M, With sorrow, guilt, ami feur, by turn« dismayed, The reverend champion stood. At his control, Despair...Comfort came down, the trembling wretch to raise, And bis last faltering accents whisper'd praise." Such a man partakes of that divine nature, that came... | |
| Richard Cecil - 1825 - 476 pages
...wept, he pray'd and felt, for all : And, as a bird each fond endearment tries, To tempt its ncw-fledg'd offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reprov'd...delay, Allur'd to brighter worlds, and led the way." 1 remember lo have heard him say, when speaking of his continual interruptions, " I see in this world... | |
| Walker - 1825 - 434 pages
...in the Christian warfare. " Beside the bed where parting life was laid, And sorrow, guilt, and fear, by turns dismay'd, The reverend champion stood ; at his control, Despair and anguish fled the trembling soul ; Comfort came down, the drooping soul to raise, And his last faltering accents whisper'd... | |
| William Enfield - 1827 - 412 pages
...wept, he pray'd and felt for all. And, as a bird each fond endearment tries, To tempt it's new-fledg'd offspring to the skies ; He tried each art, reprov'd...the way. Beside the bed where parting life was laid, Ami sorrow, guilt, and pain, by turns dismay 'd, The rev'rend Champion stood. At his control Despair... | |
| 1827 - 396 pages
...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...delay, Allur'd to brighter worlds, and led the way." GOLDSMITH. It is to be greatly regretted that so little pains have been taken to perpetuate the memory... | |
| 1828 - 398 pages
...And, as a bird, each fond endearment tries, To tempt his new fledg'd offspring to the skies ; He try'd each art, reprov'd each dull delay, Allur'd to brighter...And sorrow, guilt, and pain, by turns dismay'd ; The rev'rend champion stood. At his control, Despair and anguish fled the trembling soul ; Comfort came... | |
| John Pierpont - 1828 - 320 pages
...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...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;... | |
| John Pierpont - 1829 - 290 pages
...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...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... | |
| Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 820 pages
...he comprehends not those strange unaccountable methods by which Providence may dispose of him- SouM. At his control, Despair and anguish fled the struggling soul, Comfort came down the trembling wretch to nice, And his last faultering accents whisper'd praise. Goldtmitl. ANGURIA, the water-melon: a genus... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1830 - 544 pages
...tempt its new-fledged offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reproved each dull delay, Allured nce; Our ship's well stored — in yonder creek we've Uid her, His honour is no mercenary trader. not, And his last falt'ring accents whiper'd praise. At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His... | |
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