 Oh that I had the wings of a dove, that I might flee away and be at rest;" for I felt that there could be no rest for me in the midst of such outrages and pollutions.  Bentley's Miscellany - Page 607edited by - 1854Full view - About this book
 | Julia Kavanagh - English fiction - 1851 - 440 pages
...road that spread beyond, and yet even that delusion soothed her. The words of David, "Oh! that I had the wings of a dove, that I might flee away, and be at rest," came back to her heart. For awhile a dream bore her away on its swift pinions; the freshness of dark... | |
 | Thomas Moore - Poets, Irish - 1853 - 384 pages
...of a dove," &c. might be made metre by the alteration of only one word, " Oh that I had the pinions of a dove, That I might flee away and be at rest." But even this alteration spoils it. In the beautiful psalm, " By the waters of Babylon," what is one... | |
 | John Cumming - Bible - 1854 - 316 pages
...we see, or hear one note of the grand harmonies that roll around us,—you would say, ' 0 that I had the wings of a dove, that I might flee away and be at rest forever!' " Another fact that the dead would tell us is, that things which agitate the world scarcely... | |
 | John Wilson - 1854 - 342 pages
...invisible in excess of light — and bidding farewell to earth and its humble shadows. "O that I had the wings of a dove, that I might flee away and be at rest !" Who hath not, in some heavy hour or other, from the depth of his very soul, devoutly — passionately... | |
 | John Cumming - Bible - 1854 - 308 pages
...see, or hear one note of the grand harmonies that roll around us, — you would say, ' 0 that I had the wings of a dove, that I might flee away and be at rest forever ! ' " Another fact that the dead would tell us is, that things which agitate the world scarcely... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1855 - 588 pages
...dear to my heart of hearts : the changes wrought by old age are fearful to contemplate ; and when 1 think of them, and feel their premonitory symptoms,...their bitter first-fruits, I long for the wings of a of dove, that I might flee away and be at | tell. This is a sorry confe?sion to make ; but I will not... | |
 | 1855 - 892 pages
...may hang heavy upon his heart, and with all the sensibilities of a man, ho may cry, " 0 ! that I had the wings of a dove that I might flee away and be at rest;" but soon the higher principle of his nature will bear him above all, and make him гцад^Шу tp... | |
 | John Wilson - 1856 - 444 pages
...invisible in excess of light, and bidding farewell to earth and its humble shadows. " 0 that I had the wings of a dove, that I might flee away and be at rest!" Who hath not, in some heavy hour or other, from the depth of his very soul, devoutly — passionately... | |
 | John Wilson - 1856 - 442 pages
...invisible in excess of light, and bidding farewell to earth and its humble shadows. " 0 that I had the wings of a dove, that I might flee away and be at rest!" Who hath not, in some heavy hour or other, from the depth of his very soul, devoutly — passionately... | |
 | John Wilson - 1857 - 462 pages
...invisible in excess of light — and bidding farewell to earth and its humble shadows. " O that I had the wings of a dove, that I might flee away and be at rest ! " Who hath not, in some heavy hour or other, from the depth of his very soul, devoutly — passionately... | |
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