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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. "
The lounger's common-place book, or, Miscellaneous collections, in history ... - Page 220
by Jeremiah Whitaker Newman - 1807 - 252 pages
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Observations on popular antiquities: including the whole of mr ..., Volume 1

John Brand - 1849 - 574 pages
...stand, I have brought you some fine biskette baked in the oven of charity, and carefully conserved for the chickens of the Church, the sparrows of the Spirit, and the sweet swallows of Salvation." See Sir John Cheek's Preface to his book called ' The true Subject to the Rebel,' and Liber Niger,...
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Anecdotes of the Puritans

Joseph Alden - Puritans - 1849 - 188 pages
...stand, I have brought you some fine biscuit, baked in the oven of charity, and carefully conserved for the chickens of the church, the sparrows of the spirit, and the sweet swallows of salvation." By the " stony stage" he meant the finely-' carved stone pulpit. The style of preaching, of which the...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest ..., Volume 1

Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 708 pages
...now stand, I have brought you some fine biscuit«, baked in the oven of charity, carefully conserved ** Which way of preaching," says Anthony Wood, the reporter of the homily, 4* was then mostly in fashion,...
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The Reasoner, Volume 6

Secularism - 1849 - 424 pages
...the following elaborate title : "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." ' Coleridge quoted the following with great glee, as one. of tho best practical jokes extant : —...
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Curiosities of Literature: And The Literary Character Illustrated

Isaac Disraeli - American literature - 1851 - 518 pages
...the following elaborate title ; ' Some fine Baskets baked in the Oven of Charity, carefully conserved for the Chickens of the Church, the Sparrows of the Spirit, and the sweet Ssvallows of Salvation.' Someiinies their quainuiess has some humour. One Sir Humphrey Lind, a zealous...
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 38

Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, Timothy Flint, John Holmes Agnew - Periodicals - 1851 - 578 pages
...of the Coming Crop : or Biscuits baked in the Oven- of Charity, carefully conserved for the Chtckens of the Church, the Sparrows of the Spirit, and the Sweet Swallows of Sal rat ion,' On the title-page of another, we have the following copious description of its eontents...
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Salad for the solitary, by an epicure [signing himself F.S.].

F. S., Frederick Saunders - 1853 - 306 pages
...the. stubborn Ears of the coining Crop, or (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." To another we have the following copious description : " Seven Sobs of a Sorrowful Soul for Sin, or...
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Salad for the Solitary

Frederick Saunders - American essays - 1853 - 358 pages
...the stubburn Ears of the coming Crop, or 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." To another we have the following copious description : " Seven Sobs of a Sorrowful Soul for Sin, or...
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Putnam's Monthly, Volume 1

American literature - 1853 - 728 pages
...macro-micro-cosmick of one Sachs ;" " Some fine Baskets, 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 ! " Griffiths had observed this extravagance with no little concern ; and it has been supposed that...
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Proceedings of the Literary & Philosophical Society of Liverpool, Issues 1-50

Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1896 - 496 pages
...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 ! " For about twenty years after the publication of Euphues, imitations and continuations of the book...
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