 Didst thou ever see a lark in a cage ? Such is the soul in the body : this world is like her little turf of grass; and the heaven o'er our heads like her looking-glass, only gives us a miserable knowledge of the small compass of our prison.  Tait's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 33edited by - 1851Full view - About this book
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1846 - 752 pages
...: more contemptible ; since ours is to preserve earth-worms. Didst thou ever see a lark in a cage ? Such is the soul in the body : this world is like her little turf of grass ; and the heaven o 'er our heads, like her looking-glass, only gives us a miserable knowledge of the small compass of... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1846 - 550 pages
...: more contemptible ; since ours is to preserve earth-worms. Didst thou ever see a lark in a cage ? Such is the soul in the body : this world is like her little turf of grass ; and the heaven o 'er our heads, like her looking-glass, only gives us a miserable knowledge of the small compass of... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 614 pages
...in; more contemptible, since ours is to preserve earthworms. Didst thou ever see a lark in a cage ? Such is the soul in the body : this world is like her little turf of grass, and the heaven o'er our heads, like her looking-glass, only gives us a miserable knowledge of the small compass of... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 602 pages
...in, more contemptible ; sinceours is to preserve earth-worms. Didst thou ever see a lark in a cage ? Such is the soul in the body ; this world is like her little turf of grass ; and the heavens o'er our heads like her looking-glass, only gives us a miserable knowledge of the small compass... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 594 pages
...since ours is to preserve earth-worms. Didst thou ever see a lark in a cage 1 Such is the soul in tho body ; this world is like her little turf of grass ; and the heavens o'er our heads like her looking-glass, only gives us a miserable knowledge of the small compass... | |
 | 1857 - 588 pages
...develops from within. — Eliz. B. Browning. V EAETH-LIFE. — Didst thou ever see a lark in a cage ? Such is the soul in the body ; this world is like...miserable knowledge of the small compass of our prison. — Thomas Middleton. pslcmr. IS .RUSSIA GREAT BECAUSE OR IN SPITE OF SERFDOM? NEGATIVE ABTICLE. —... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1857 - 468 pages
...in, more contemptible; since ours is to preserve earth-worm*. Didst thou ever see a lark in a cage 1 Such is the soul in the body : this world is like her little turf of grass $ and the heaven o'er our heads like her looking-glass, only gives us a miserable knowledge of the small compass of... | |
 | John Webster - English drama - 1857 - 294 pages
...preserved. 1 See note, ante, page 12. VOL. II. B Is like her little turf of grass, and the heaven o'er our heads, Like her looking-glass, only gives us a...miserable knowledge Of the small compass of our prison. Duck. Am not I thy duchess? Bos. Thou art some great woman sure, for riot Begins to sit on thy forehead... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1858 - 594 pages
...in, more contemptible; since ours is to preserve earth-worms. Didst thou ever see a lark in a cage 1 Such is the soul in the body ; this world is like her little turf of grass ; and the heavens o'er our heads like her looking-glass, only gives us a miserable knowledge of the small compass... | |
 | John Webster, Alexander Dyce - 1859 - 424 pages
...more contemptible, since ours is to preserve earth-worms. Didst tbou ever • see a lark in a cage ? Such is the soul in the body : this world is like her little turf of grass, and the heaveu o'er our heads like her looking-glass, only gives us a miserable knowledge of the small compass... | |
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