| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 páginas
...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,...the 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... | |
| Half hours - 1856 - 650 páginas
...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,...poor bird was beaten back with the loud sighings of au eastern wind, and his motion made irregular and inconstant, descending more at every breath of the... | |
| Alexander Ireland - 1892 - 16 páginas
...and therefore is contrary to that state of mind which presents our prayers in a right line to God. For so have I seen a lark rising from his bed of grass,...above the clouds ; but the poor bird was beaten back by the loud sighiugs of an easterly wind, and his motiou made irregular and inconstant, descending... | |
| Izaak Walton - 1892 - 300 páginas
...description of the lark : — " For so I have seen a lark rising from his bed of grass, soaring upward and singing as he rises and hopes to get to Heaven, and...the 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... | |
| William Minto - 1892 - 584 páginas
...they can endure tlie storms of the north and the loud noises of a tempest and yet never be broken." " For so have I seen a lark rising from his bed of grass,...rises and hopes to get to heaven, and climb above the cloiuU ; but the poor bird was beaten back with the loud sighings of an eastern wind, and his motion... | |
| William Minto - 1892 - 582 páginas
...they can endure the storms of the north and the loud noises of a tempest and yet never be broken." " For so have I seen a lark rising from his bed of grass, and soaring upwards, singing as lie rises and hopes to get to heaven, and climb above the clouds ; but the poor bird was beaten back... | |
| Edwin Abbott Abbott, Sir John Robert Seeley - 1893 - 344 páginas
...is almost metre there is no trace (except perhaps in the noun sighing) of the poetic diction : — " 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 back || with... | |
| George Lansing Raymond, George Post Wheeler - 1893 - 224 páginas
...Would God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son! " 2 Sam. xviii. ^3. " For so have I soon a lark rising from his bed of grass and soaring upwards, singing as he rises, and [he] hopes to got to heaven and climb above the clouds: but the poor bird was beaten back with the... | |
| David Jayne Hill - 1893 - 394 páginas
...have seen a lark rising from his bed of grass, and soaring upward, singing as he rises, and hoping to get to heaven, and climb above the clouds ; but the poor bird was beaten back by the loud sighing of an eastern wind, and his motion made irregular and inconstant, descending more... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1893 - 656 páginas
...force to them. JOHN. Do you remember one? PHILIP. Many ; who that had ever read one could forget it ? " For so have I seen a lark, rising from his bed of grass ard soaring upward, singing as he rises, and hopes to get to heaven, and climb above the clouds; but... | |
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