 | 1848 - 726 σελίδες
...good fire in the midst, whilst the storms prevail abroad : the sparrow, flying in at one door, and out at another, whilst he is within, is safe from...storm ; but after a short space of fair weather he vanishes into the dark winter whence ho had emerged. So this life of man appears for a short space... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1862 - 604 σελίδες
...fire having been lit in the midst, and the room made wann thereby, whilst storms of rain and snow rage abroad : the sparrow, I say, flying in at one door,...he is within, is safe from the wintry storm ; but a short space of fair weather soon passed over, he immediately vanishes out of your sight into the... | |
 | English history - 1851 - 706 σελίδες
...fire made in the midst of it, wherein you sit at supper iu tho winter, with commanders and ministers, whilst the storms of rain and snow prevail abroad...and immediately out at another, whilst he is within ia not affected with the winter storm ; but after a very brief interval of what is to him fair weather... | |
 | Bede (the venerable.) - 1853 - 488 σελίδες
...fire having been lit in the midst, and the room made warm thereby, whilst storms of rain and snow rage abroad ; the sparrow, I say, flying in at one door,...wintry storm ; but after a short space of fair weather, soon passed over, he immediately vanishes out of your sight into the dark winter from which he had... | |
 | 1853 - 496 σελίδες
...fire having been lit in the midst, and the room made warm thereby, whilst storms of rain and snow rage abroad ; the sparrow, I say, flying in at one door,...wintry storm ; but after a short space of fair weather, soon passed over, he immediately vanishes out of your sight into the dark winter from which he had... | |
 | 1857 - 954 σελίδες
...midst, and the room made warm thereby, whilst storms of rain and snow rage abroad ; the sparrow, I asy, flying in at one door, and immediately out at another,...wintry storm ; but after a short space of fair weather soon passed over, he immediately vanishes out of your sight into the dark winter from which he had... | |
 | 1857 - 588 σελίδες
...commanders and ministers, and a "rood fire in the midst, whilst the storm of rain and snow prevails abroad. The sparrow, I say, flying in at one door and immediately out at another, whilst within, he is safe from the wintry storm ; but after a short space of fair weather, he immediately... | |
 | Walter Farquhar Hook - 1860 - 558 σελίδες
...fire having been lit in the midst, and the room made warm thereby, whilst storms of rain and snow rage abroad ; the sparrow, I say, flying in at one door,...wintry storm ; but after a short space of fair weather, soon passed over, he immediately vanishes out of your sight into the dark winter from which he had... | |
 | Walter Farquhar Hook - 1861 - 530 σελίδες
...fire having been lit in the midst, and the room made warm thereby, whilst storms of rain and snow rage abroad ; the sparrow, I say, flying in at one door,...wintry storm ; but after a short space of fair weather, soon passed over, he immediately vanishes out of your sight into the dark winter from CHAP, which he... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1861 - 602 σελίδες
...having been lit in the midst, and the room made warm thereby, whilst storms of rain and snow range abroad : the sparrow, I say, flying in at one door,...wintry storm ; but after a short space of fair weather, soon passed over, he immediately vanishes ont of your sight into the dark winter from which he had... | |
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The present life of man, O king (said he) seems to me, in comparison of that time which is unknown to us, like to the swift flight of a sparrow through the room wherein you sit at supper in winter, with your... 
