 | American periodicals - 1851 - 608 pages
...beaten back with the loud sighings of an eastern wind, and his motion made irregular and unconstant, descending more at every breath of the tempest, than...recover by the libration and frequent weighing of its wings ; till the little creature was forced to sit down and pant, and stay till the storm was over,... | |
 | Robert Southey - Anecdotes - 1851 - 796 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 librationand frequent weighing of his wings ¡ till the little creature was forced to sit down and... | |
 | Robert Southey - Anecdotes - 1851 - 768 pages
...; but the poor bird was beaten back with the loud sighings of an eastern wind, and his motion mude irregular and inconstant, descending more at every...breath of the tempest, than it could recover by the librntionand frequent weighing of his wings ; till the little creature was forced to sit down and pant,... | |
 | Henry Mandeville - Readers - 1851 - 396 pages
...loud sighings of an eastern wind, and his motion made irregular and inconstant: descending more at 3 every breath of the tempest than it could recover by the libration and weighing of his wings ; till the little creature was forced to sit down, and pant, and stay till the... | |
 | David Thomas - 458 pages
...and his motion made irregular and inconstant, descending more at every breath of the tempest than he could recover by the libration and frequent weighing...and did rise and sing as if it had learned music and singing from an angel, as he passed sometimes through the air about his ministries here below. So is... | |
 | Mary Lynam - 1852 - 206 pages
...beaten back with the loud sighings of an eastern wind, and his motion made irregular and unconstant, descending more at every 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1853 - 716 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...frequent weighing of his wings, till the little creature wan forced to sit down and pant, and stay till the storm was over ; and then it made a prosperous Bight,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1854 - 796 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...till the little creature was forced to sit down and and Dying, wh A writer in the folios, there is n lion? and glowii figures, — more, i ami epics that... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber - 1848 - 700 pages
...with the loud sighings of 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 and frequent weighing of its wings ; till the little creature was forced to sit down and pant, and stay til] the storm was over;... | |
 | Susan Fenimore Cooper - Country life - 1855 - 478 pages
...loud sighingsot' an eastern wind, and his motion made irregular and inconstant, descending more and more at every breath of the tempest than it could...it made a prosperous flight, and did rise and sing, us if it had learned music and motion from an angel, as he passed sometimes through the air about his... | |
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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... 
