 | British and foreign young men's society - 1837 - 556 pages
...exclaim, while a flood of pure delight thrills through every part of my frame, ' Oh ! that I had wings like a dove, for then would I flee away and be at rest.' " It is in these peculiarly sweet and precious seasons, when ' Into the heaven of heavens I... | |
 | Henry Martyn - 1837 - 548 pages
...felt grieved in my own mind, and troubled from the opposition of men, and I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove ! for then would I flee away and be at rest. So then would I wander afar off, and remain in the wilderness. 13 — 24. Passed in tolerable... | |
 | Henry Melvill - 1837 - 160 pages
...happiness ; so that, in its finest and loftiest musings, its exclamation often is, "O that I had wings like a dove, for then would I flee away and be at rest." Even now the soul is often able to rise above the body, to detach itself, for a while, from... | |
 | Henry Martyn - 1837 - 544 pages
...felt grieved in my own mind, and troubled from the opposition of men, and I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove ! for then would I flee away and be at rest. So then would I wander afar off, and remain in the wilderness. 1 3 — 24 . Passed in tolerable... | |
 | William Van Mildert (bp. of Durham.) - 1838 - 590 pages
...the present moment. The thought of the dove, " however, tempts me to cry out, ' O that I had " wings like a dove ; for then would I flee away, " and be at rest.' " Of the Bishop's proceedings nearer home, or in his Diocese, during the summer and autumn which... | |
 | Charles Lawson (M.A.) - 1838 - 412 pages
...enjoys a peace which no earthly objects can impart: he is even ready to exclaim, " O that I had wings like a dove, for then would I flee away and be at rest!" My brethren, in the contemplation of this eternity, what are the riches, the honours, the vanities... | |
 | 1866 - 856 pages
...the moral restraints of fatherland— often exclaiming, in bitterness of soul, ' O that I had wings like a dove ! for then would I flee away and be at rest' — tempted sometimes to destroy my own life, I came to London, and having received a handsome... | |
 | Henry Martyn - 1839 - 928 pages
...to teach me better things, I will bless the Lord. But enough of worldly things. " O that I had wings like a dove ! for then would I flee away and be at rest. Lo then would I wander far off, and remain in the wilderness. I would hasten my escape from the... | |
 | 1881 - 314 pages
...back, I cannot freely fly to Thee. He longed to fly freely to Thee, who said, — 'O, that I had wings like a dove, for then would I flee away and be at rest.' Who is more at rest than he who has a single eye to the glory of God ? and who is more free... | |
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O that I had wings like a dove : for then would I flee away, and be at rest. 
