 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 - Seite 4341851Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Joshua Rhodes Balme - 1846 - 146 Seiten
...and sets up his closet in the out-quarters of an army, and chooses a frontier garrison to he wise in. Anger is a perfect alienation of the mind from prayer, and therefore is contrary to that intention, which presents our prayers in a right line to God. For so have I seen a lark rising from... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 560 Seiten
...and sets up his closet in the outquarters 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, : E 1::.-', MY and climb above the clouds ; but the poor bird was beaten back... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 Seiten
...and sets up his closet in the out-quarters of an army, and chooses a frontier-garrison to he wise in. morning st hopes to get to heaven, and climb above the clouds ; but the poor bird was beaten back with the loud... | |
 | Thomas Powell - 1847 - 354 Seiten
...of the following beautiful passage in the works of the divinely eloquent Dr. Jeremy Taylor : — " 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... | |
 | Thomas Powell - 1847 - 352 Seiten
...of the following beautiful passage in the works of the divinely eloquent Dr. Jeremy Taylor : — " 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 Aris Willmott - 1847 - 344 Seiten
...proceeded from one who went out to meditate in the fields, in the morning hours and at eventide. " 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... | |
 | 1848 - 530 Seiten
...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,...which presents our prayers in a right line to God. For as I have seen a lark rising from his bed of grass, and soaring upwards, singing as he rises, and hopes... | |
 | 1848 - 936 Seiten
...it many a warm gush of love. He is speaking of sins in their influence upon the good man's prayers. 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 clonds ; but the poor bird was beaten back with the loud... | |
 | 432 Seiten
...contemplating traveller may, if he likes, moralize with dear old Jeremy Taylor in this fashion : " For I have seen a lark rising from his bed of grass, and soaring...heaven, and climb above the clouds ; but, the poor hird was beaten back by the loud sighing of an eastern wind, and his motion was irregular and inconstant,... | |
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