 But, as when the sun approaching toward the gates of the morning, he first opens a little eye of heaven, and sends away the spirits of darkness, and gives light to a cock, and calls up the lark to matins, and by and by gilds the fringes of a cloud, and...  Notes and Queries - Page 921851Full view - About this book
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1881 - 798 pages
...the spirits of darkness, and gives light to a cock, and calls up the lark to matins, and by-and-by gilds the fringes of a cloud, and peeps over the eastern...horns like those which decked the brows of Moses when ho was forced to wear a veil because himself had seen the face of God ; and still, while a man tells... | |
 | Abram Smythe Palmer - 1882 - 700 pages
...hair. Bishop Jeremy Taylor seems to have had a correct understanding of the matter, as he says the sun "peeps over the Eastern hills, thrusting out his golden...a veil, because himself had seen the face of God." — Holy Dying, p. 16, Oxford ed. Coleridge strangely enough, though bearing this passage in mind,... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 558 pages
...the spirits of darkness, and gives light to a cock, and calls up the lark to matins, and by and by gilds the fringes of a cloud, and peeps over the eastern...thrusting out his golden horns like those which decked the brow of Moses, when he was. forced to wear a veil, because himself had seen the face of God; and still,... | |
 | Abram Smythe Palmer - 1882 - 734 pages
...of the matter, as he says the sun " peeps over the Eastern hills, thrusting out his golden lionte, like those which decked the brows of Moses when he...was forced to wear a veil, because himself had seen tho face of God." — Holy Dying, p. 10, Oxford cd. Coleridge strangely enough, though bearing this... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1884 - 400 pages
...the spirits of darkness, and gives light to a cock, and calls up the lark to matins, and by and by gilds the fringes of a cloud, and peeps over the eastern...horns, like those which decked the brows of Moses . . . and still, while a man tells the story, the sun gets up higher till he shows a fair face and... | |
 | John Daniel Morell - 1885 - 530 pages
...the spirits of darkness, and gives light to a cock, and calls up the lark to matins,2 and by-and-by gilds the fringes of a cloud, and peeps over the eastern...the face of God ; and still, while a man tells the story,3 the sun gets up higher, till he shows a fair face and a full light, and then shines one whole... | |
 | Thomas Cooper - 1885 - 502 pages
...the spirits of darkness, and gives light to a cock, and calls up the lark to matins, and by-and-by gilds the fringes of a cloud, and peeps over the eastern...hills, thrusting out his golden horns, like those which bedecked the brows of Moses when he was forced to wear a veil, because himself had seen the face of... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1885 - 440 pages
...cloud, peeping over the eastern hills, thrusting out his golden horns like those which decked the brow of Moses, when he was forced to wear a veil, because himself had seen the face of God ? " " For so doth the humble ivy creep at the foot of the oak, and leans upon its lowest base, and... | |
 | W. H. Davenport Adams - 1885 - 434 pages
...to a cock, and calling up the lark to matins, and by-and-bye gilding the fringes of a cloud, peeping over the eastern hills, thrusting out his golden horns like those which decked the brow of Moses, when he was forced to wear a veil, because himself had seen the face of God ? " " For... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1886 - 304 pages
...the spirits of darkness, and gives light to a cock, and calls up the lark to matins, and by and by gilds the fringes of a cloud, and peeps over the eastern hills." Perhaps the most impressive single passage of Taylor's is the concluding chapter in Holy Dying. From... | |
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