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" But in his duty prompt at every call, He watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all ; 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,... "
Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry - Page 202
by Elegant extracts - 1805 - 1016 pages
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Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical ..., Volume 9

John Aikin - 1821 - 314 pages
...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: And, as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-fledg'd offspring to the skies, He try'd each art, reprov'd each dull delay, Allur'd to brighter...
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Poems

Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 236 pages
...failings leaned to virtue's side ; But in his duty prompt at every call, He watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all. 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...
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Poems Divine and Moral: Many of Them Now First Published

John Bowdler - 1821 - 510 pages
...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. And, as a bird each fond endearment tries, To tempt its new-fledg'd offspring to the skies ; He tried each art, reprov'd each dull delay, Allur'd to brighter...
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The British Poets: Including Translations ...

British poets - 1822 - 296 pages
...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 new-fledged offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reproved each dull delay, Allured to brighter...
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The Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine

1838 - 1014 pages
...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 skies, He tried each art, reproved each dull delay, Allured to brighter...
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The British Poets: Including Translations ...

British poets - 1822 - 290 pages
...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 to the skies, He tried each art, reproved each dull delay, Allured .to brighter...
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The Bardiad: A Poem ; in Two Cantos

Charles Burton - 1823 - 234 pages
...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 to the skies, He try'd each art, reprov'd each dull delay, Allur'd to brighter worlds, and led the way. Beside...
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The Works of the Rev. J. Newton ...: With the Memoirs of the ..., Volume 1

John Newton, Richard Cecil - 1824 - 738 pages
...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 new-fledg'd offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reprov'd each dull delay, Allur'd to brighter...
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The Penny Tract Magazine and Christian Miscellany

1847 - 390 pages
...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, reprov'd each dull delay, Allur'd to brighter...
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Select British Poets, Or, New Elegant Extracts from Chaucer to the Present ...

William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...failings Ican'd to virtue's side; But in his duty prompt at every call, He watch'd and wept, he pray'd creature! mount where science Go, measure earth, weigh air, and stat its ncw-fledg'd offspring to the skies, He try'd each art, reprov'd each dull delay, Allur'd to brighter...
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