 | Jeremy Taylor - 1816 - 526 pages
...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 irregular and inconstant, descend ug more at every breath of the tempest, than it coi.id recover by the libration and frequent... | |
 | 1819 - 896 pages
...get to heaven, and climb above the clouds: but the poor bird was beaten back with the loud sigbings of an eastern wind, and his motion made irregular...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... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber - 1822 - 634 pages
...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...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,... | |
 | Edward Bickersteth - 1822 - 330 pages
...bed of grass, soars upward, singing as he rises, but the poor bird is beaten back by the sudden blast of an eastern wind, and his motion made irregular,...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,... | |
 | Edward Bickersteth - 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,... | |
 | Jared Sparks - 1826 - 420 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1828 - 418 pages
...singing as he rises, and hopes to get to heaven, and climb above the cluuds; but the poor bird was 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 it could recover by the libration... | |
 | William Hone - 1832 - 852 pages
...rises, and hopes to get to heaven, and climb above the clouds ; but the poor bird was beaten back by the loud, sighings of an eastern wind, and his motion...breath of the tempest than it could recover by the vibrations and frequent weighings of his wings ; till the little creature was forced to sit down, and... | |
 | Elizabeth Holmes - 1832 - 300 pages
...wind, according to Bishop Taylor's beautiful and well-known simile, beat the poor bird back, and it was forced to sit down and pant, and stay till the storm was over; shall it ever rise again and sing ? What a mercy to feel the hand of a Father leading, when one's voice... | |
 | William Hone - 1832 - 874 pages
...beaten back by the loud sigliings of an eastern wind, and his motion made irregular and inconstint, descending more at every breath of the tempest than it could recover by the vibrations and frequent weighings of his wings; till the little creature was forced to sit down, and... | |
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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... 
