 ... 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, descending more at every breath of the tempest than it could recover by the libration...  A Practical System of Rhetoric - Page 292by Samuel Phillips Newman - 1852 - 311 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Henry Kaye Bonney - 1815 - 422 pages
...tern'' pest, than it could recover by the libration " and frequent weighings of his wings ; till "the little creature was forced to sit down '' and pant,...flight, and " did rise and sing as if it had learned musick '' and motion from an angel g, as he passed " sometimes through the air about his mini" steries... | |
 | Henry Kaye Bonney - 1815 - 422 pages
...musick " and motion from an angel s, as he passed " sometimes through the air about his mini" steries here below : so is the prayer of a " good man ; when his affairs have required u business, and his business was matter of : . . " a winged messenger of heaven • **»•*••••... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor - 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... | |
 | 1819 - 896 pages
...breath of the 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 storm was over ; and then it uiade a prosperous flight, and did rise and sing, as if it had learned music and motion of an angel... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber - 1822 - 626 pages
...of the tempest, than it could recover by the libration and frequent weighing of his wings ; till the little creature was forced to sit down and pant, and...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... | |
 | Jared Sparks - 1826 - 420 pages
...the tempest, 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...angel, as he passed sometimes through the air about his ministeries here below. So is the prayer of a good man ; when his affairs have required business, and... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber - 1828 - 630 pages
...of the tempest, than it could recover by the libration and frequent weighing of his wings; till the little creature was forced to sit down and pant, and...sometimes through the air, about his ministries here beloV: so is the prayer of a good man; when his affairs have required business, and his business was... | |
 | Samuel Putnam - 1828 - 314 pages
...of the tempest, than it could recover by the libration and frequent weighing of his wings; till the little creature was forced to sit down and pant, and...learned music, and motion from an angel, as he passed some-- times through the air in his ministeries here below. So was the prayer of a good man, when his... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1828 - 418 pages
...of the tempest, than it could recover by the libration and frequent weighing of his wings; till the little creature was forced to sit down and pant, and...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... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1828 - 414 pages
...down and pant, and stay till the storm was over, and then it made a prosperous flight, and did rise 30 and sing as if it had learned music and motion from...angel, as he passed sometimes through the air about his ministeries here below : so is the prayer of a good man; when his affairs have required business, and... | |
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