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" at the Mount of St Mary's, in the stony stage where I now stand, I have brought you some fine biscuits, baked in the oven of charity, carefully conserved for the chickens of the church, the sparrows of the spirit, and the sweet swallows of salvation. "
Curiosities of Literature - Page 507
by Isaac Disraeli - 1824 - 472 pages
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The Life of Bernard Gilpin

William Gilpin - 1824 - 294 pages
...stony stage where I now stand, I have brought you some fine biscuits, baked in the oven of charity, and carefully conserved for the chickens of the church,...the spirit^ and the sweet swallows of salvation." were the expressions generally made use of to characterize them in this particular. How much, in the...
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Memoirs of John Dryden

Walter Scott - 1826 - 526 pages
...the Mount of St Mary's, in the stony stage where I now stand, I have brought you some fine biscuits, baked in the oven of charity, carefully conserved...the spirit, and the sweet swallows of salvation.» — « Which way of preaching,» says Anthony Wood, the reporter of the homily, «was then mostly in...
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Memoirs of John Dryden, Volumes 1-2

Walter Scott - 1826 - 532 pages
...the Mount of St Mary's, in the stony stage where I now stand, I have brought you some fine biscuits, baked in the oven of charity, carefully conserved...of the spirit, and the sweet swallows of salvation. » — « Which way of preaching,» says Anthony Wood, the reporter of the homily, «was then mostly...
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The Percy Anecdotes: Original and Select, Volume 16

1826 - 384 pages
...mount of Saint Mary's, in the Stony Stage where I now Stand, I have brought you some fine biscuits, baked in the oven of Charity, Carefully Conserved for the Chickens of the Church." This sort of style, especially the alliterative part of it, was much admired in those days, even by...
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The Percy Anecdotes: Original and Select [by] Sholto and Reuben ..., Volume 16

1826 - 370 pages
...of Saint Mary's, in the Stony Stage where I now Stand, I have brought you some fine hiscuits, haked in the oven of Charity, Carefully Conserved for the Chickens of the Church." This sort of style, especially the alliterative part of it, was much admired in those days, even by...
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The miscellaneous prose works of sir Walter Scott, Volume 1

sir Walter Scott (bart [prose, collected]) - 1827 - 564 pages
...the Mount of St Mary's, in the stony stage where I now stand, I have brought you some fine biscuits, baked in the oven of charity, carefully conserved...the spirit, and the sweet swallows of salvation." — " Which way of preaching," says Anthony Wood, the reporter of the homily, " was then mostly in...
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The History of Dedham: From the Beginning of Its Settlement, in September ...

Erastus Worthington - 1827 - 606 pages
...the covenant.' ' Reaping hook well tempered for the stubborn ears of the coming crop; or, Biscuits baked in the oven of charity, carefully conserved...the Spirit, and the Sweet Swallows of Salvation.' ' Seven Sobs of a Sorrowful Soul for Sin, or the Penitential Psalms of the Princely Prophet David,...
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A topographical and historical description of the University and city of ...

Nathaniel Whittock - 1828 - 200 pages
...at the mount St. Mary's, In the stony stage where I now stand, I have brought you some fine biscuits baked in the oven of charity, carefully conserved...the spirit, and the sweet swallows of salvation." This state of darkness was happily dispelled in a few years under the glorious reign of Queen Elizabeth...
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The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart: Life of John Dryden

Walter Scott - 1829 - 344 pages
...the Mount of St. Mary's, in the stony stage where 1 now stand, I have brought you some fine biscuits, baked in the oven of charity, carefully conserved...spirit, and the sweet swallows of salvation."—" Which way of Where grave and learned professions set the example, the poets, it will readily be believed,...
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The Book of Rarities in the University of Cambridge: Illustrated by Original ...

Charles Henry Hartshorne - 1829 - 592 pages
...I now stand, I have brought you some fine biskets baked in the oven of charity, carefully conserv'd for the chickens of the church, the sparrows of the spirit, and the sweet swallows of salvation." This way of preaching was then much in fashion, and commended by the generality of scholars. He died...
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