For so have I seen a lark rising from his bed of grass, and soaring upwards, singing as he rises, and hopes to get to heaven, and climb above the clouds ; but the poor bird was beaten back with the loud sighings of an eastern wind, and his motion made... Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature - Page 4341851Full view - About this book
| Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 pages
...and sets up his closet in the out-quarters of an army, and chooses a frontier-garrison to be wise in. ure ; Sweet is pleasure after pain. Sooth'd with the sound, the hare I seen a lark rising from his bed of grass, and soaring upwards, singing as he rises, and hopes... | |
| Eliza Cook - 1849 - 432 pages
...moralize with dear old Jeremy Taylor in this fashion : " For I have seen a lark rising from his hed of grass, and soaring upwards, singing as he rises,...heaven, and climb above the clouds ; but, the poor hird was heaten back by the loud sighing of an eastern wind, and his motion was irregular and inconstant,... | |
| Basil Montagu - 1849 - 284 pages
...pinions to his breast, If chance his mate's shrill note he hear,. And drops at once into her nest." "So have I seen a lark rising from his bed of grass, and soaring upwards, singing as he rises and hopes to get to heaven, and climb above the clouds; but the poor bird was beaten back with the loud... | |
| Young Men's Christian Associations (London, England) - 1858 - 580 pages
...and sets up his closet in the out-quarters of au army, and chooses a frontier garrison to be wise in. Anger is a perfect alienation of the mind from prayer,...grass, and soaring upwards singing as he rises, and hopes to get to heaven and climb above the clouds ; but the poor bird was beaten back with the loud... | |
| Robert Southey - 1850 - 770 pages
...lines; but I cannot pass by the beautiful words of JEREMY TAYLOR in The Return of Prayert: He says," For so have I seen a lark rising from his bed of grass, and soaring upwards, singing as he rises, and hopes to get to heaven, and climb above the clouds ; but the poor bird was beaten back with the loud... | |
| Jeremy Taylor - 1850 - 702 pages
...and sets up his closet in the out-quarters of an army, and chooses a frontier garrison to be wise in. Anger is a perfect alienation of the mind from prayer,...therefore is contrary to that attention which presents oar prayers in a right line to God. For so have I seen a lark rising from his bed of grass, and soaring... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1850 - 710 pages
...and sets up his closet in the out-quarters of an army, and chooses a frontier-garrison to be wise in. Anger is a perfect alienation of the mind from prayer,...and therefore is contrary to that attention which prelents our prayers in a right line to Ood. For so have I seen a lark rising from his bed of grass,... | |
| Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber - 1850 - 718 pages
...and sets up his closet in the out-quarters of an army, and chooses a frontier garrison to be wise in. Anger is a perfect alienation of the mind from prayer,...and therefore is contrary to that attention which II. Many times good men pray, and their prayer is not a sin, but yet it returns empty ; because, although... | |
| Ears - 1851 - 176 pages
...and sets up his closet in the out-quarters of an army, and chooses a frontier garrison to be wise in. Anger is a perfect alienation of the mind from prayer,...grass, and soaring upwards, singing as he rises, and hopes to get to heaven, and climb above the clouds ; but the poor bird was beaten back with the loud... | |
| Arethusa Hall - 1851 - 422 pages
...and sets up his closet in the out-quarters of an army, and chooses a frontier garrison to be wise in. Anger is a perfect alienation of the mind from prayer,...grass, and soaring upwards, singing as he rises' and hopes to get to heaven, and climb above the clouds; but the poor bird was beaten back with the loud... | |
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