 ... loud sighings of an eastern wind, and his motion made irregular and inconstant, descending more at every breath of the tempest than it could recover by the libration and frequent weighing of his wings; till the little creature was forced to sit down...  The Year Book of Daily Recreation and Information - Seite 529von William Hone - 1832 - 1643 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1845 - 632 Seiten
...descending more at every breath of the tempest, than it could recover by the libration and frequent weighing of his wings; till the little creature was forced...prosperous flight, and did rise and sing, as if it did learn music and motion from an angel, as he passed sometimes through the air about his ministries... | |
 | 1844 - 484 Seiten
...is very graphic and elegant; and when he comes to its " prosperous flight," he says that then it " did rise and sing, as if it had learned 'music and...through the air, about his ministries here below." " Prayers (he observes) are but the body of the bird— desires are its angel's wings." He compares... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1844 - 584 Seiten
...descending more at every breath of the tempest than he could recover by the libration and frequent weighing of his wings ; till the little creature was forced to sit down and pant, and stay still the storm was over, and did rise and sing as if he had learned music and motion of an angel as... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 692 Seiten
...descending more at every breath of the tempest, than it could recover by the libration and frequent weighing punt, and stay till the storm was over ; and then it made a prosperous flight, and did rise and sing,... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1845 - 404 Seiten
...descending more at every breath of the tempest, than it could recover by the libration and frequent weighing of his wings, till the little creature was forced...through the air, about his ministries here below. So is the prayer of a good man : when his affairs have required business, and his business was matter... | |
 | Basil Montagu, Hannah Mary Rathbone - 1845 - 396 Seiten
...descending more at every breath of the tempest, than it could recover by the libration and frequent weighing of his wings ; till the little creature was forced...if it had learned music and motion from an angel, 2 as ho passed sometimes through the air about his ministries here below : so is the prayer of a good... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1845 - 312 Seiten
...descending more at every breath of the tempest, than it could recover by the libration and frequent weighing of his wings ; till the little creature was forced...flight, and did rise and sing as if it had learned musick and motion from an angel, as he passed sometimes through the air about his ministeries here... | |
 | 1845 - 372 Seiten
...descending more at every breath of the tempest than it could recover by the libration and frequent weighing of his wings, till the little creature was forced...then it made a prosperous flight, and did rise and rung, as if it had learned music and motion from an angel." The Return of Prayers, Works, vol. i. 638.... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 842 Seiten
...descending more at every breath of the tempest, than it could recover by the libration and frequent weighing of his wings ; till the little creature was forced...sit down and pant, and stay till the storm was over, aud then it made a prosperous flight, and did rise and sing as if it had learned music and motion from... | |
 | Giovanni Boccaccio - 1846 - 338 Seiten
...descending more at every breath of the tempest, than it could recover by the libration and frequent weighing of his wings ; till the little creature was forced...flight, and did rise and sing as if it had learned musick and motion from an angel, as he passed sometimes through the air about his ministeries here... | |
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