 ... 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, descending more at every breath of the tempest,...  The American Quarterly Observer - Page 1471833Full view - About this book
 | 1844 - 484 pages
...is very graphic and elegant; and when he comes to its " prosperous flight," he says that then it " did rise and sing, as if it had learned 'music and...through the air, about his ministries here below." " Prayers (he observes) are but the body of the bird— desires are its angel's wings." He compares... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1844 - 584 pages
...and his motion made irregular and unconstant, descending more at every breath of the tempest than he could recover by the libration and frequent weighing...creature was forced to sit down and pant, and stay still the storm was over, and did rise and sing as if he had learned music and motion of an angel as... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 692 pages
...and his motion made irregular and inconstant, descending more at every breath of the tempest, than I@{ , punt, and stay till the storm was over ; and then it made a prosperous flight, and did rise and sing,... | |
 | Basil Montagu, Hannah Mary Rathbone - 1845 - 396 pages
...and his motion made irregular and unconstant, descending more at every breath of the tempest, than it could recover by the libration and frequent weighing...if it had learned music and motion from an angel, 2 as ho passed sometimes through the air about his ministries here below : so is the prayer of a good... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1845 - 312 pages
...and his motion made irregular and inconstant, descending more at every breath of the tempest, than it could recover by the libration and frequent weighing...flight, and did rise and sing as if it had learned musick and motion from an angel, as he passed sometimes through the air about his ministeries here... | |
 | 1845 - 372 pages
...and his motion made irregular and inconsistent, descending more at every breath of the tempest than it could recover by the libration and frequent weighing...then it made a prosperous flight, and did rise and rung, as if it had learned music and motion from an angel." The Return of Prayers, Works, vol. i. 638.... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 842 pages
...aud his motion made irregular and uncoustant, descending more at every breath of the tempest, than it could recover by the libration and frequent weighing...sit down and pant, and stay till the storm was over, aud then it made a prosperous flight, and did rise and sing as if it had learned music and motion from... | |
 | Giovanni Boccaccio - 1846 - 338 pages
...and his motion made irregular and inconstant, descending more at every breath of the tempest, than it could recover by the libration and frequent weighing...flight, and did rise and sing as if it had learned musick and motion from an angel, as he passed sometimes through the air about his ministeries here... | |
 | Joshua Rhodes Balme - 1846 - 146 pages
...inconstant, descending more at every breaih of the tempest, than it could recover by the libralion and frequent weighing of his wings; till the little...prosperous flight, and did rise and sing, as if it did learn music and motion from an angel, as he passed sometimes through the air about his ministeries... | |
 | 1846 - 644 pages
...and his motion made irregular and inconstant — descending more at every breath of the tempest than wii forced to sit down and pant, and stay till the storm was over; and then it made ;i prosperous flight,... | |
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