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 503by Isaac Disraeli - 1807Full view - About this book
| Peter Richard Kenrick - 1841 - 268 pages
...(pulpit), where I now stand, I have brought you some fine biskcts, baked in the oven of charity, and carefully conserved for the chickens of the church,...the spirit, and the sweet swallows of salvation.' " Book IX. of the affair; or who attest the public belief of its credibility. Whether or not such evidence... | |
| Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1846 - 558 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." He died full of honors, his body was carried to the grave by heralds, and an helmet, standard and pennon,... | |
| Jean Siffrein Maury - 1842 - 320 pages
...doubtless be imagination in the manner of expression; but, above all, there must be truth and judgment. chickens of the Church, the sparrows of the spirit, and the sweet swallows of salvation." GIBBoN'S Rhetoric, p. 17. The Spectator humorously describes the abuse of figurative eloquence... | |
| 1843 - 708 pages
...the stubborn Ears of the coming Crop, or Biscuits baited m the oven of Charity, carefully contened for the Chickens of the Church, the Sparrows of the Spirit, and the Sweet Swallows of Salvation." To another we have the following copious description: "Seven Sobi of a Sorrowful Soul for Sin, or the... | |
| Peter Cooper - 1844 - 280 pages
...Mary's, in the stony stage [the pulpit was of stone] where I now stand, I have brought you some biscuits, baked in the oven of charity, carefully conserved...the spirit, and the sweet swallows of salvation." These sweet swallows, how could they doubt, with such nervous and convincing eloquence to persuade... | |
| Peter Cooper - 1844 - 278 pages
...Mary's, in the stony stage [the pulpit was of stone] where I now stand, I have brought you some biscuits, baked in the oven of charity, carefully conserved...the spirit, and the sweet swallows of salvation." These sweet swallows, how could they doubt, with such nervous and convincing eloquence to persuade... | |
| John Oliver Willyams Haweis - 1844 - 348 pages
...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...chickens of the church, the sparrows of the spirit, the sweet swallows of salvation." * I am not sure that this was so remarkable as it might seem. When... | |
| Isaac Disraeli - 1846 - 530 pages
...respectively honoured by the name of a Muse ; and three orations of the latter, by those of the Graces. title; 'Some fine Baskets baked in the Oven of Charity, carefully...published a work which a Jesuit answered by another, entitled ' A pair of Spectacles for Sir Humphrey Ltnd." Thndoughty knight retorted, by a 'Case for... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...now stain), I have brought von some fine biscuits, baked in the oven of charity, carefully eaniĞrved and curd, as doth the king his meat, And blither too : 'Do. For ki tweet swallows of salvation." " Which way of preaching," says Anthony Wood, the reporter of the homily,... | |
| 1799 - 230 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,...of the spirit, and the sweet swallows of salvation !'" CHAPTER V. THE GREAT BIBLE. CROMWELL, earl of Essex, for some time the chief minister and favourite... | |
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