 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...  The American Quarterly Observer - Page 148edited by - 1833Full view - About this book
 | Eliza Cook - English periodicals - 1849 - 432 pages
...have seen a lark rising from his hed of grass, and soaring upwards, singing as he rises, and hoping to get to 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,... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor - English literature - 1850 - 702 pages
...prayer, and 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,...an eastern wind, and his motion made irregular and unconstant, descending more at every breath of the tempest, than it could recover by the libration... | |
 | Young Men's Christian Associations (London, England) - Christianity - 1858 - 580 pages
...prayer, and therefore is contrary to that attention, which presents our prayers in a right line to God. For so have I seen a lark rising from his bed of grass,...an eastern wind, and his motion made irregular and unconstant, descending more at every breath of the tempest, than it could recover by the libration... | |
 | Robert Southey - Anecdotes - 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,...loud sighings of an eastern wind, and his motion made irrecrular and inconstant, descending more at where thin, the artificial grass very fine ; hence I... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber - Theology - 1850 - 718 pages
...of the prayer of a good man. Eresents our prayers in a right line to God. For so have I seen a irk rising from his bed of grass, and soaring upwards,...an eastern wind, and his motion made irregular and unconstant, descending more at every breath of the tempest, than it could recover by the libration... | |
 | Robert Southey - Anecdotes - 1851 - 796 pages
...lines; but I cannot pass by the beautiful words of JEREMY TAYLOR in The Return of Prayers : He says, " For so have I seen a lark rising from his bed of grass,...breath of the tempest, than it could recover by the librationand frequent weighing of his wings ยก till the little creature was forced to sit down and... | |
 | Robert Southey - Anecdotes - 1851 - 768 pages
...lines; but I cannot pass by the beautiful words of JEREMY TAYLOR in The Return of Prayers: lit! says, " For so have I seen a lark rising from his bed of grass,...the loud sighings of an eastern wind, and his motion mude irregular and inconstant, descending more at every breath of the tempest, than it could recover... | |
 | Ears - 1851 - 176 pages
...prayer, and therefore is contrary to that attention which presents our prayers in a right line to God. For so have I seen a lark rising from his bed of grass,...beaten back with the loud sighings of an eastern wind, arid his motion made irregular and inconstant, descending more at every breath of the tempest than... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor - Church of England - 1851 - 1046 pages
...prayer, and therefore is contrary to that attention, which presents our prayers in a right line to God. For so have I seen a lark rising from his bed of grass,...; but the poor bird was beaten back with the loud sighiugs of an eastern wind, and his motion made irregular and inconstant, descending more at every... | |
 | Arethusa Hall - Readers - 1851 - 422 pages
...prayer, and therefore is contrary to that attention which presents our prayers in a right line to God. For so have I seen a lark rising from his bed of grass,...clouds; but the poor bird was beaten back with the loud sighing of an eastern wind, and his motion made irregular and inconstant, descending more at every... | |
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