 It sometimes seemed to me," she said, "as if I were a little bird whom the Lord had placed in a cage, and that I had nothing now to do but sing. The joy of my heart gave a brightness to the objects around me. The stones of my prison looked in my eyes...  The Exemplary Life of the Pious Lady Guion - Side 423af Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon - 1804 - 503 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon - 1805 - 364 sider
...God. I .sang songs of joy, which the maid who served me learned by heart, as fast as I made them : and we together sang thy praises, oh my God ! The stones...infidelity which I- fell into. It was in premeditating one dav on what answer* I should make, at an examination which was to be the next day. I answered badly.... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 460 sider
...the maid who served me learned by heart, as fast as I made them : and we sang together thy praises, O my God ! The stones of my prison looked in my eyes...than all the gaudy brilliancies of a vain world." We cannot state this fact without doing homage to the virtues of Madame Guion. The piety that could... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 464 sider
...the maid who served me learned by heart, as fast as I made them : and we sang together thy praises, O my God ! The stones of my prison looked in my eyes...than all the gaudy brilliancies of a vain world." We cannot state this fact without doing homage to the virtues of Madame Guion. The piety that could... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 462 sider
...learned by heart, as fast as I made them : and we sang together thy praises, O my God I The stones of nay prison looked in my eyes like rubies. I esteemed them more than all the gaudy brilliancies of a Tain world." We cannot state this fact without doing homage to the virtues of Madame Guion. The piety... | |
 | Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon - 1837 - 118 sider
...INTRODUCTION. Together we sang the praises of God, until the stones of my prison looked like rubies, and I esteemed them more than all the gaudy brilliancies of a vain world." She survived her release from imprisonment for the space of seven years ; but at that time the fire... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1847 - 438 sider
...had nothing to do now but to sing. The joy of my heart gave a brightness to the objects around me. The stones of my prison looked in my eyes like rubies....love thee in the midst of their greatest crosses." 16. Quite a number of her poems have allusion to her imprisonment. It was natural that they should.... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1847 - 468 sider
...had nothing to do now but to sing. The joy of my heart gave a brightness to the objects around me. The stones of my prison looked in my eyes like rubies!...that joy which thou givest to them who love thee in tBe midst of their greatest crosses." ... 16. Quite a number of her poems have allusion to her imprisonment.... | |
 | William Cowper - 1850 - 476 sider
...the maid who served me learned by heart, as fast as I made them : and we sang together thy praises, O my God ! The stones of my prison looked in my eyes...than all the gaudy brilliancies of a vain •world." We cannot state this fact without doing homage to the virtues of Madame Guion. The piety that could... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1854 - 572 sider
...had nothing to do now but to sing. The joy of my heart gave a brightness to the objects around me. The stones of my prison looked in my eyes like rubies....all the gaudy brilliancies of a vain world. My heart wa» full of that joy which thou givest to them who love thee in the midst of their greatest crosses."... | |
 | Robert Steel (D.D.) - 1858 - 484 sider
...had nothing to do now but to sing. The joy of my heart gave a brightness to the objects around me. The stones of my prison looked in my eyes like rubies....heart was full of that joy which thou givest to them that love thee in the midst of their greatest crosses." "Strong are the walls around me. That bold... | |
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