 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 Merry Monarch - Seite 260von W. H. Davenport Adams - 1885Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Edward Albert - 1923 - 648 Seiten
...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,...breath of the tempest than it could recover by the libration and frequent weighing of his wings, till the little cre.iture was forced to sit down and... | |
 | Stephen Coleridge - 1923 - 290 Seiten
...and sometimes weeping great and little showers, and sets quickly, so is a man's reason and his life." heaven, and climb above the clouds ; but the poor...breath of the tempest, than it could recover by the liberation and frequent weighing of his wings ; till the little creature was forced to sit down and... | |
 | William Henry Crawshaw - 1924 - 606 Seiten
...of expression. The following is one of Taylor's most famous and most characteristic sentences : For so have I seen a lark rising from his bed of grass,...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 and... | |
 | William Vaughn Moody, Robert Morss Lovett - 1926 - 410 Seiten
...happens to him to say that prayer rises like a lark, and thereupon he gives himself free rein : For so have I seen a lark rising from his bed of grass,...with the loud sighings of an eastern wind, and his motions made irregular and inconstant, descending more at every breath of the tempest than it could... | |
 | Emile Legouis, Louis François Cazamian - 1926 - 416 Seiten
...happens to him to say that prayer rises like a lark, and thereupon he gives himself free rein : For so have I seen a lark rising from his bed of grass,...with the loud sighings of an eastern wind, and his motions made irregular and inconstant, descending more at every breath of the tempest than it could... | |
 | Great Britain. Scottish Education Dept - 1896 - 642 Seiten
...crushed ; for prosperity doth beat discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue." BACON. (4) So have I seen a lark rising from his bed of grass, and soaring upwards, singing as he rises. J. TAYLOB. (c) If you sincerely desire to write nothing but what you clearly know or think, and to... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor - 1990 - 548 Seiten
...rises, and hopes to get to heaven, 11. Smith, p. Iv. 12. Works 3:270. 15. Smith, p. Iv. and climbe above the clouds; but the poor bird was beaten back with the loud sighings of an eastern winde, and his motion made irregular and unconstant, descending more at every breath of the tempest,... | |
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