 | George Frederick Graham - 1857 - 416 páginas
...into fury. 9. From Jeremy Taylors "Holy Living and Holy Dying:"— about 1650.1 (On Prayer.) I have seen a lark rising from his bed of grass, and soaring upwards, singing as he rises, and hopes 1 Jeremy Taylor, the " Spenser of English prose," was born at Cambridge, in the year 1613,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1858 - 780 páginas
...and sets up his closet in the out-quarters of an army, and chooses a frontier garrison to be wise in. Anger is a perfect alienation of the mind from prayer,...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... | |
 | Henry Donald Maurice Spence-Jones - 1887 - 648 páginas
...and sets up his closet in the out-quarters of an army, and chooses a frontier garrison to be wise in. Anger is a perfect alienation of the mind from prayer,...line to God. For so have I seen a lark rising from its bed of grass, and soaring upwards, and singing as he rises, and hopes to get to heaven, and rise... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1887 - 408 páginas
...my temper." He makes other allusions to it. compare Taylor's treatment of the same image : " For BO 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 by the loud... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - 1887 - 320 páginas
...own sin, is like that little lark, described in one of the greatest and most eloquent of our divines, 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 by the... | |
 | Edward Meyrick Goulburn - 1888 - 270 páginas
...which prayer might win ? And the same may be said of love. Take prayer out of the 1 1 Tim. ii. 8. - " Anger is a perfect alienation of the mind from prayer,...of grass, and soaring upwards, singing as he rises, in hopes to get to heaven, and climb above the clouds ; but the poor bird was beaten back with the... | |
 | William Francis Collier - 1888 - 560 páginas
...here used in the sense of preaching. Compare ita use in certain parts of the New Testament. ON PRAYER. Anger is a perfect alienation of the mind from prayer,...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... | |
 | Brainerd Kellogg - 1888 - 286 páginas
...young country, an orgie such as rotting Corinth saw, a frenzied festival of Rome in its decadence. 18. 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 bafck'Dy... | |
 | William Francis Collier - 1890 - 560 páginas
...preaching. Compare its use in certain parts of the New Testament. SPECIMEN OF TAYLOR'S STYLE. 189 ON PRATER. 'Anger is a perfect alienation of the mind from prayer,...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... | |
 | John Earle - 1890 - 612 páginas
...the effect of a medallion, or a cameo, or a star, which gives a fine illumination to the narrative. For so have I seen a lark rising from his bed of grass, and soaring upwards,, singing as he rises, &c. — Jeremy Taylor. Fancy can hardly forbear to conjecture with what temper Milton surveyed the... | |
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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... 
