 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 1461833Full view - About this book
 | Jeremy Taylor - 1826 - 628 lehte
...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...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... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1828 - 632 lehte
...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,...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... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1828 - 452 lehte
...therefore is contrary to that attention, which presents our prayers in a right line to God. For 20 so have I seen a lark rising from his bed of grass,...an eastern wind, and his motion made irregular and incon25 slant, descending more at every breath of the tempest, than it could recover by the libration... | |
 | John Angell James - 1828 - 444 lehte
...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,...heaven, and climb above the clouds : but the poor bin! was beaten back with the loud sighings of an eastern wind, and his motion made irregular and inconstant—... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1828 - 418 lehte
...therefore is contrary to that attention, which presents our prayers in a right line to God. For 20 so have I seen a lark rising from his bed of grass,...rises, and hopes to get to heaven, and climb above the cluuds; but the poor bird was beaten back with the loud sighings of an eastern wind, and his motion... | |
 | Samuel Putnam - 1828 - 314 lehte
...therefore is contrary to that attention, which presents our prayer in a right time to God. For «o have I seen a lark rising from his bed of grass, and soaring upwards, singing as he rises, and hope's to get to heaven and climb above the clouds; but the poor bird was beaten back with the loud... | |
 | John Angell James - 1830 - 300 lehte
...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, and soaring upwards, singing 68 as he rises, and hopes to get to heaven, and climb above the clouds : but the poor bird was beaten... | |
 | William Hone - 1832 - 852 lehte
...nibbling the short dripping gnu«. And the birds arc on the bushes. Knight'i Quarterly Mttyiwne, " 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, sighings of an eastern wind, and his motion made irregular and inconstant, descending... | |
 | 1833 - 336 lehte
...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,...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... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor - 1833 - 390 lehte
...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,...inconstant, descending more at every breath of the tempest, than it could recover by the Vibration and frequent weighing of his wings; till the little creature... | |
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