 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - English poetry - 1822 - 428 pages
...faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And ev'n 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 aH : And, as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt the new-fledgM offspring... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 290 pages
...pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings lear1'd to virtue's side; But in his duty prompt, at every call, He watch'd and wept, he pray'd aqd felt, for all: And, as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-fledged offspring... | |
 | Arminianism - 1838 - 1014 pages
...for, and appeared to be affectionately concerned for the welfare of, every member of the family. ' But in his duty prompt at every call, He watch'd, and wept, and pray'd, nnd felt for all ; And as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt her new-fledged offspring to the... | |
 | Charles Burton - 1823 - 234 pages
...faults to scan, His pity gave, ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And ev'n 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 her new-fledg'd offspring... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pages
...faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, Aud ev'n his failings lean'd to Virtue's side : But in his duty prompt at ev'ry call, • He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt for all. Aud, as a bird each fond endearment... | |
 | John Newton, Richard Cecil - Theology - 1824 - 738 pages
...had learn'd to prize, More bent to raise the wretched than to rise. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings lean'd to Virtue's...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 new-fledg'd offspring... | |
 | Christian literature, English - 1847 - 390 pages
...well as the sheep, for he loved them, and led them on gently in the way to the heavenly fold. " Thus in his duty prompt at every call. He watch'd and wept, and pray'd and felt for all. And, as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt his new-fledg'd offspring to the skies, He tried each art,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And even his failings Ican'd n endless error hurl'd: The glory, jest, and riddle of the world! [guides, G he pray'd and felt for all. And, as a bird each fond endearment tries, To tempt its ncw-fledg'd offspring... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1825 - 476 pages
...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...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 new-fledged offspring... | |
 | Richard Cecil - Theology - 1825 - 476 pages
...to prize, More bent to raise the wretched than to rise. VoL. I. 34* Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings lean'd to Virtue's...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 ncw-fledg'd offspring... | |
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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 for... 
