| Collection - 1749 - 236 páginas
...heart is difquieted within me : and the fear of death is fallen upon me. 6. Then I faid, O that I had wings like a dove : then would I flee away, and be , at reft. PSAL. CXVII. 1. S~\ Praife the LORD, all ye heathen : \^_S praife him all ye nations. 2. For... | |
| John Brailsford - 1776 - 334 páginas
...and dwell for; evermore in his prefence : and incline us to wifh with the pfalmift, *' Oh that I had wings like a dove ! " then would I flee away and be «' at reft." Such is the love that is due to God, and which naturally arifeth from the excellence of his... | |
| John Collier (of High Wycombe.) - 1791 - 566 páginas
...very beginning of Abfaloms rebellion. The intended flight is beautifully exprefled, " O that I had wings like *' a dove, then would I flee away and be at reft." It is very pi&urefque and pathetic, and no one can read fome parts of it without the tendered... | |
| Theocritus (of Syracuse) - 1792 - 242 páginas
...aud^/fa/ nofe.' LINE 17. O were a humming bee's my happier lot, &c. Thus the Pfalmift : ' O that I had wings like a dove ! then would I flee away, and be at reft !' LINE 19. Through its fern and ivy creep. The ancient fhepherds had a notion that the fmell... | |
| John Wesley - 1790 - 736 páginas
...manfions in the Ikies. I found a fecret longing to be with Jefus. The language of my heart "O that I had wings like a dove, then would I flee away and be at reft !" Not from a deflre to be away from fuffering fooner than it was the will of God ; but only from... | |
| William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 460 páginas
...the birds of the air; and often repeated the words of one in similar circumstances; " O that I had wings like a dove, then would I flee away and be at rest." But a second thought convinced me that I could not get the rest of the dove, even if I had her wings;... | |
| 1811 - 550 páginas
...heartless pride, When, weakly sensitive, I've felt Within my wounded wind, I've cried " O that I had wings like a dove, Then would I flee away, and be at rot.1' Or when neglect with blighting power, Haiapathizcd the sinking heart, In that forlorn deserted... | |
| James BOWDEN (Minister at Tooting.) - 1814 - 634 páginas
...Christ, and you account all things but loss that you may win Christ. Yon are crying, '• O that I had wings like a dove, then would I flee away and be at rest," in that blessed hiding place ! Well, God has provided strong consolation for all who flee fotf refuge... | |
| Evan Herbert - 1817 - 92 páginas
...would not have to say, ah ! so would we have it, nor the susceptible mourn insecret. "Oh! that I had wings like a dove, then would I flee away and be at rest." — Is a shade of difference in sentiment, a partiality to another Minister, unavoidable absence or... | |
| Mrs. Æneas Lamont - 1818 - 200 páginas
...to give ; Even hope within my heart is dead, Then wherefore should I wish to live ? " O that I had wings like a dove, Then would I flee away, and be at rest." Even now, my mental gloom redoubling By care and grief at once oppressed. — To " where the wicked... | |
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