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" Oh that I had wings like a dove ! Then would I fly away, and be at rest. "
The Baptist Magazine - Page 281
1819
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Memoirs of Eminently Pious Women of Britain and America, Volume 1

David Francis Bacon - Christian biography - 1833 - 630 pages
...of sin and death weighing me down, and making me cry out many times with bitterness of spirit, ' O that I had wings like a dove ! then would I fly away, and be at rest,' from a tempting devil, a corrupt heart, a wicked world, and the sin that does so easily beset...
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The Indicator, and the Companion: A Miscellany for the Fields and ..., Volume 1

Leigh Hunt - 1834 - 342 pages
...may be at a distance, people feel as if they should escape from the worry of their local cares. " O that I had wings like a dove ! then would I fly away and be at rest/ The word far is often used wilfully in poetry, to render distance still more distant. An old...
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The Works of Mrs. Sherwood: Being the Only Uniform Edition Ever Published in ...

Mary Martha Sherwood - English literature - 1834 - 448 pages
...presence of my Redeemer, and every thing desirable is included in being ' for ever with the Lord.' ' Oh, that I had wings like a dove, then would I fly away and be at rest.' " The persuasions of my beloved sister at length drew from me the promise that I would endeavour...
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The Works of Mrs. Sherwood: Being the Only Uniform Edition Ever Published in ...

Mary Martha Sherwood - English literature - 1834 - 436 pages
...presence of my Redeemer, and every thing desirable is included in being ' for ever with the Lord.' ' Oh, that I had wings like a dove, then would I fly away and be at rest.' " The persuasions of my beloved sister at length drew from me the promise that I would endeavour...
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Reminiscences of the Rev. Robert Hall: And Sketches of His Sermons Preached ...

John Greene - Clergy - 1834 - 400 pages
...return to the parlour, he said, " This, sir, H is a sample of the interruptions I now meet with: O that I had wings like a dove, then would I fly away and lie at rest. I wish I had an invitation to some village, sir, where I could live retired. Is it not...
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The Christian Teacher, Volume 1

England - 1835 - 802 pages
...my wife — my children ; but for you, not another day would I continue in this man's service. " Oh, that I had wings like a dove ! — then would I fly away and be at rest."' On the morning succeeding the night of debauch at the vicarage, its unworthy master and...
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Memoir of the Rev. John Stanford, D.D.: Late Chaplain to the Humane and ...

Charles George Sommers - 1835 - 442 pages
...my heart. Sometimes cold and indifferent, then warm desires expressed in the language of David, ' O that I had wings like a dove, then would I fly away, and be at rest.' About this time, my uncle invited me to join a party of young persons to visit Vauxhall Gardens,...
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Sermons, ed. by J. Scott

John Scott - 1835 - 426 pages
...makes the Christian long for a better world, and disposes him often to exclaim with the Psalmist, " O that I had wings like a dove, then would I fly away and be at rest ! " or with Jeremiah, " O that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of way-faring men, that...
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The Indicator and the Companion: A Miscellany for the Fields and ..., Volume 1

Leigh Hunt - English essays - 1835 - 350 pages
...may be at a distance, people feel as if they should escape from the worry of their local cares. " O that I had wings like a dove ! then would I fly away and be at rest.'' The word far is often used wilfully in poetry, to render distance still more distant. An...
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Memoir of the Rev. John Stanford, D.D.: Late Chaplain to the Humane and ...

Charles George Sommers - 1835 - 448 pages
...heart. Sometimes cold and indifferent, then warm desires ex pressed in the language of David, ' O that 1 had wings like a dove, then would I fly away, and be at rest.' About this time, my uncle invited me to join a party of young persons to visit Vauxhall Gardens,...
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