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" 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... "
A Practical System of Rhetoric, Or, The Principles and Rules of Style ... - Page 291
by Samuel Phillips Newman - 1842 - 311 pages
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The Life of the Right Reverend Father in God, Jeremy Taylor ...

Henry Kaye Bonney - 1815 - 422 pages
...at every breath of the tern* " pest, than it could recover by the libration " and frequent weighings of his wings ; till '* the little creature was forced...flight, and " did rise and sing as if it had learned musick " and motion from an angel s, as he passed " sometimes through the air about his mini" steries...
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Discourses on Various Subjects, Volume 1

Jeremy Taylor - Sermons, English - 1816 - 526 pages
...motion made irregular and inconstant, descend ug more at every breath of the tempest, than it coi.id recover by the libration and frequent weighing of...flight, and did rise and sing as if it had learned musick and motion from an angel, as he passed sometimes through the air about his ministeries here...
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Discourses on Various Subjects, Volume 1

Jeremy Taylor - Sermons, English - 1816 - 536 pages
...weighino- of his wings ; till the little creature was forced to sit Serm. V. THK RETURN or PRATERS. 91 down and pant, and stay till the storm was over, and...prosperous flight, and did rise and sing as if it hadf learned musick and motion from an angel, as he passed sometimes through the air about his ministeries...
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The Christian observer [afterw.] The Christian observer and advocate

1819 - 896 pages
...above the clouds: but the poor bird was beaten back with the loud sigbings of an eastern wind, and his motion made irregular and inconstant, descending more...tempest than it could recover by the libration and weighing of its wings— till the little creature was forced to sit down and pant, and stay till the...
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Sermons

Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber - Theology - 1822 - 626 pages
...above the clouds ; but the poor bird was beaten back with the loud sighings of an eastern wind, and his motion made irregular and inconstant, descending more...the storm was over ; and then it made a prosperous Sight, and did rise and sing, as if it had learned music and motion from an angel, as he passed sometimes...
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Sermons

Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber - Theology - 1822 - 634 pages
...above the clouds; but the poor bird was beaten back with the loud sighings of an eastern wind, and his motion made irregular and inconstant, descending more...breath of the tempest, than it could recover by the Vibration and frequent weighing of his wings; till the little creature was forced to sit down and pant,...
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A Treatise on Prayer: Designed to Assist in Its Devout Discharge

Edward Bickersteth - Prayer - 1822 - 330 pages
...singing as he rises, but the poor bird is beaten back by the sudden blast of an eastern wind, and his motion made irregular, and inconstant, descending more, at every breath of the tempest, than it can recover bv the libration of its wings, till the little creature is forced to sit down, and pant,...
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A Treatise on Prayer: Designed to Assist in Its Devout Discharge

Edward Bickersteth - Prayer - 1822 - 312 pages
...rises, but the poor bird is beaten back by the sudilen blast of an eastern wind, and his motion nwle irregular, and inconstant, descending more, at every breath of the tempest, than it can recover by the libration of its wings, till the little creature is forced to sit down, and pant,...
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A Collection of Essays and Tracts in Theology, from Various ..., Volume 6

Jared Sparks - Theology - 1826 - 420 pages
...above the clouds ; but the poor bird was beaten back with the loud sighings of an eastern wind, and his motion made irregular and inconstant, descending more...than it could recover by the libration and frequent weighings of his wings ; till the little creature was forced to sit down and pant, and stay till the...
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Analysis of the Principles of Rhetorical Delivery as Applied in Reading and ...

Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1828 - 418 pages
...beaten back with the loud sighings of an eastern wind, and his motion made irregular and incon25 slant, descending more at every breath of the tempest, than...and then it made a prosperous flight, and did rise 35 to pass upon a sinning person, or had a design of charity, his duty met with the infirmities of...
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