 | Susan Fenimore Cooper - Country life - 1855 - 510 pages
...loud sighings of an eastern wind, and his motion made irregular and inconstant, descending more and more at every breath of the tempest than it could...forced to sit down and pant, and stay till the storm WHS over, and then it made a prosperous flight, and did rise and sing, us if it had learned music and... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - Literature - 1855 - 880 pages
...aÎK>ve the clouds ; but the poor bird was beaten back by the oud sighings of an eastern wind, and his motion made irregular and inconstant, descending more...every breath of the tempest than it could recover >y the vibrations and frequent weighings of his wings, till the little creature was forced to sit down,... | |
 | Country life - 1856 - 482 pages
...loud sighings of 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, aa if it had learned music and motion from an angel, as he passed sometimes through the air about his... | |
 | 1856 - 796 pages
...the clouds ; but the poor bird was beaten back with the loud sightings of an eastern wind, and his motion made irregular and inconstant, descending more...to sit down and pant, and stay till the storm was ovtr, and then it made a prosperous flight, and did rise and sing as if it bad learned music and motion... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 650 pages
...above the clouds ; but the poor bird was beaten back with the loud sighings of au eastern wind, and his motion made irregular and inconstant, descending more...creature was forced to sit down and pant, and stay till tho storm was over ; and then it made a prosperous flight, and did rise and sing as if it had learned... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1856 - 800 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 librntion and frequent weighing of his wings; till the little creature was forced to sit down and pant,... | |
 | Johann Matthäus Bechstein - Birds - 1856 - 598 pages
...TAYLOE and BISHOP HALL, have made it the theme of their high discourse ; the former says that " it did rise and sing as if it had learned music and motion from an angel." We wish that the nature of our work permitted us to quote a few of the most beautiful meeds of song... | |
 | James Hamilton - Christian literature, English - 1857 - 532 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...and did rise and sing, as if it had learned music and-motion from an angel, as lie passed sometimes through the air about his ministries here below.... | |
 | 1842 - 790 pages
...above the clouds ; but the poor bird was beaten back with the loud sighing of an eastern wind, and his motion made irregular and inconstant, descending more at every breath of the tempest, than all the vibrations of his wings served to exalt him, till the little creature was forced to sit down... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1858 - 780 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 1 rtac belt edition or hti works U that by Blcbop Hebcr, " with a Lite of the Author, and a vlUOU EiamlnaOOD... | |
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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... 
