 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
 | Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber - 1848 - 700 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,...an eastern wind, and his motion made irregular and unconstant, dec ponding more at every breath of the tempest, than it could recover by the libration... | |
 | William Minto - 1892 - 584 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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... | |
 | David Jayne Hill - 1893 - 394 Seiten
...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... | |
 | George Lansing Raymond, George Post Wheeler - 1893 - 224 Seiten
...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... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1893 - 656 Seiten
...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... | |
 | William Minto - 1895 - 584 Seiten
...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,...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... | |
 | Kate Stephens, Charles Eliot Norton, George Henry Browne - 1895 - 392 Seiten
...and therefore is contrary to that attention which presents our prayers in a right line to God. Tor 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 pant,... | |
 | Reginald Heber Howe - 1895 - 172 Seiten
...in. For so have I seen a lark soaring upwards, beaten tack by the sighings of an eastern wind, and 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 and pant,... | |
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