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
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 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,...is contrary to that attention, which presents our nravers in n riffht line to God. pant, and stay till the storm was over ; and then it made a prosperous... | |
| George Frederick Graham - 1857 - 416 Seiten
...into fury. 9. From Jeremy Taylors "Holy Living and Holy Dying:"— about 1650.1 (On Prayer.) I have seen a lark rising from his bed of grass, and soaring upwards, singing as he rises, and hopes 1 Jeremy Taylor, the " Spenser of English prose," was born at Cambridge, in the year 1613, and... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1887 - 408 Seiten
...my temper." He makes other allusions to it. compare Taylor's treatment of the same image : " For BO 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 by the loud sighings... | |
| Frederic William Farrar - 1887 - 320 Seiten
...own sin, is like that little lark, described in one of the greatest and most eloquent of our divines, 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 by the loud... | |
| William Francis Collier - 1888 - 560 Seiten
...here used in the sense of preaching. Compare ita use in certain parts of the New Testament. ON PRAYER. 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... | |
| Edward Meyrick Goulburn - 1888 - 270 Seiten
...which prayer might win ? And the same may be said of love. Take prayer out of the 1 1 Tim. ii. 8. - " Anger is a perfect alienation of the mind from prayer,...of grass, and soaring upwards, singing as he rises, in hopes to get to heaven, and climb above the clouds ; but the poor bird was beaten back with the... | |
| Brainerd Kellogg - 1888 - 286 Seiten
...young country, an orgie such as rotting Corinth saw, a frenzied festival of Rome in its decadence. 18. For so have I seen a lark rising from his bed of grass and soaring upwards, singing as he rises, and [he] hopes to get. to heaven and climb above the clouds ; but the poor bird was beaten bafck'Dy the... | |
| William Francis Collier - 1890 - 560 Seiten
...preaching. Compare its use in certain parts of the New Testament. SPECIMEN OF TAYLOR'S STYLE. 189 ON PRATER. '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... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1890 - 410 Seiten
...either." Let us compare Taylor's treatment of the same image, which, I fancy, Dryden must have seen: " 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 by the loud sighings... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1890 - 388 Seiten
...either." Let us compare Taylor's treatment of the same image, which, I fancy, Dryden must have seen : " 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 by the loud sighings... | |
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