 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...  The American Quarterly Observer - الصفحة 148المحررون: - 1833عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
 | 1861 - عدد الصفحات: 782
...to God. For so have I seen a lark, rising from its bed of grass, and soaring upward, singing as it rises, and hopes to get to heaven, and climb above the clouds; but the poor bird was driven back by the loud sighing of an eastern wind, and his motion made irregular, unconstant, descending... | |
 | 1887 - عدد الصفحات: 608
...prayer, and therefore is contrary to that attention, which presents our prayers in a right line to God. For so have I seen a lark rising from his bed of grass,...motion made irregular and inconstant, descending more and more at every breath of the tempest, than it could recover by the libration and frequent weighing... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1887 - عدد الصفحات: 408
...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...above the clouds ; but the poor bird was beaten back by the loud sighings of an eastern wind, and his motion made irregular and inconstant, descending more... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - 1887 - عدد الصفحات: 320
...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,...the clouds ; " but .the poor bird was beaten back by the loud sighings of an eastern wind, and his motions made irregular and inconstant, descending... | |
 | Henry Donald Maurice Spence-Jones - 1887 - عدد الصفحات: 648
...its bed of grass, and soaring upwards, and singing as he rises, and hopes to get to heaven, and rise above the clouds ; but the poor bird was beaten back...an eastern wind, and his motion made irregular and inconsistent, descending more at every breath of tho tempest than it could recover by the libration... | |
 | George Saintsbury - 1887 - عدد الصفحات: 500
...prayer, and therefore is contrary to that attention which presents our prayers in a right line to God. For so have I seen a lark rising from his bed of grass, soaring upwards and singing as he rises and hopes to get to Heaven and climb above the clouds ; but... | |
 | Brainerd Kellogg - 1888 - عدد الصفحات: 286
...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 the... | |
 | Edward Meyrick Goulburn - 1888 - عدد الصفحات: 270
...prayer, and therefore is contrary to that attention which presents our prayers in a right line to God. For so have I seen a lark rising from his bed 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... | |
 | Blanche Wilder Bellamy, Maud Wilder Goodwin - 1890 - عدد الصفحات: 402
...its noblest form, the immortal influence of Athens. PRAYER. JEREMY TAYLOR. I HAVE seen a lark rise from his bed of grass, and soaring upwards, singing...an eastern wind, and his motion made irregular and inconsistent, descending more at every breath of the tempest, than it could recover by the vibration... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1890 - عدد الصفحات: 410
...either." Let us compare Taylor's treatment of the same image, which, I fancy, Dryden must have seen: " For so have I seen a lark rising from his bed of grass...above the clouds; but the poor bird was beaten back by the loud sighings of an eastern wind, and his motion made irregular and inconstant, descending more... | |
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