 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 - Seite 423von Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon - 1804 - 503 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Joseph Belcher - 1859 - 418 Seiten
...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...like rubies. I esteemed them more than all the gaudy brilliants of a vain world. " After her long imprisonment, Madame Guion lived a retired life for more... | |
 | Joseph Belcher - 1859 - 428 Seiten
...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...like rubies. I esteemed them more than all the gaudy brilliants of a vain world." After her long imprisonment, Madame Guion lived a retired life for more... | |
 | 1866 - 650 Seiten
...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 ;" a sentiment which she embodied in one of her... | |
 | John Maw Darton - 1866 - 334 Seiten
...that I had nothing to do 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." In 1698 this much-persecuted woman was removed... | |
 | 1867 - 788 Seiten
...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 like rubies....heart was full of that joy which Thou givest to them that love Thee in the midst of their greatest crosses," — a sentiment which she embodied, during... | |
 | Samuel Woolcock Christophers - 1867 - 512 Seiten
...the maid who served me learned by heart, as fast as I made them, and we together sang thy praises, 0 my God ! The stones of my prison looked in my eyes...esteemed them more than all the gaudy brilliancies of the world. My heart was full of that joy. Thou givest to them that love Thee in the midst of their... | |
 | Who - 1867 - 202 Seiten
...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. I esteemed them more than all the gaudy brilliances of a vain world. My heart was full of that joy which thou givest to them who love thee... | |
 | Joseph Johnson - 1869 - 320 Seiten
...that I had nothing to do 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....than all the gaudy brilliancies of a vain world." In 1698 she was removed to the dungeons of the Bastille, where for four years she was incarcerated... | |
 | Congregational union of England and Wales - 1870 - 366 Seiten
...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 like rubies....heart was full of that joy which Thou givest to them that love Thee in the midst of their greatest crosses," — a sentiment which she embodied during one... | |
 | 1870 - 244 Seiten
...prison looked i:i my eyes like rubies. I esteemed them more limn all the gaudy brilliancies of a rain world. My heart was full of that joy which thou givest to them that love thee in the midst of the!' greatest crosses," u sentiment which «h« embodied duriug ono... | |
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