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
| 1872 - 444 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 one of... | |
| James Comper Gray - 1872 - 424 Seiten
...1 had nothing now to do but sing. The joy of my heart gave ;i 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 that love Thee... | |
| Edwin McKean Long - 1876 - 664 Seiten
...the maid who served me learned by heart, as fast as I made them ; and we together sang thy praises, O my God ! The stones of my prison looked in my eyes like rubies. I esteemed c 188 Madame Guy on continued. them more than all the gaudy brilliancies of the world. My heart was... | |
| Edwin McKean Long - 1875 - 600 Seiten
...the maid who served me learned by heart, as fast as I made them ; and we together sang thy praises, O my God! The stones of my prison looked in my eyes like rubies. I esteemed C them more than all the gaudy brilliancies of the world. My heart was full of that joy thou givest... | |
| Frances E. Cooke - 1876 - 276 Seiten
...around me. The stones of my prison looked in my eyes like rubies. My heart was full of that joy that Thou givest to them who love Thee in the midst of their greatest crosses.' The following is a translation of one of the hymns they used to sing : — ' Strong are the walls around... | |
| Philip Bennett Power - 1877 - 156 Seiten
...I had nothing now to do but sing. The joy of my heart gave a brightness to trie 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... | |
| John Baillie - 1878 - 462 Seiten
...objects around me. The stones of my prison looked in my eyes like rubies. [The italics are our friend's.] I esteemed them more than all the gaudy brilliancies...love Thee in the midst of their greatest crosses. " Strong are the walls around me That hold me all the day ; But they who thus have bound me Cannot... | |
| Robert MacDonald - 1879 - 672 Seiten
...cage, and that I had nothing now to do but sing. The stones of my prison looked in my eyes like rubies. My heart was full of that joy which Thou givest to them that love Thee, in the midst of the greatest crosses. " A little bird I am, Shut from the fields of... | |
| Francis Nathan Peloubet - 1876 - 246 Seiten
...had nothing now to do but to aing. The joy of my heart gave a brightness to the objects around me. The stones of my prison looked in my eyes like rubies....esteemed them more than all the gaudy brilliancies of a Tain world. My heart WM full of that joy which thou givest to them that love thee in the midst of their... | |
| 1882 - 780 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 great crosses ; " — a sentiment which she embodied, during one... | |
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