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" Arriving at the mount of St. Mary's in the stony stage where I now stand, I have brought you some fine biscuits, baked in the oven of charity, and carefully conserved for the chickens of the church, the sparrows of the Spirit, and the sweet swallows of... "
The Polyanthea: Or, A Collection of Interesting Fragments, in Prose and ... - Page 242
by Charles Henry Wilson - 1804
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The Border Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly, Volume 12

Nicholas Dickson, William Sanderson - Scotland - 1907 - 278 pages
...Holiness;" and another, "A Reaping Hook well Tempered for the Stubborn Ears of the Coming Crop; or, Biscuits Baked in the Oven of Charity, carefully conserved for the Chickens of the Chuich, the Sparrows of the Spirit, and the Sweet Swallows of Salvation." Talk about alliteration's...
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Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century ...

Joel Elias Spingarn - Criticism - 1908 - 374 pages
...chain of gold hanging about his neck, and preached to the scholars a sermon . . . beginning thus : " Arriving at the mount of St. Mary's, in the stony...stage where I now stand, I have brought you some fine biskets baked in the oven of charity, carefully conserv'd for the chickens of the church, the sparrows...
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Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century: 1650-1685

Joel Elias Spingarn - Criticism - 1908 - 388 pages
...chain of gold hanging about his neck, and preached to the scholars a sermon . . ; beginning thus : "Arriving at the mount of St. Mary's, in the stony...stage where I now stand, I have brought you some fine biskets baked in the oven of charity, carefully conserv'd for the chickens of the church, the sparrows...
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The Bible of the Reformation: Its Translators and Their Work

William James Heaton - Bible - 1910 - 328 pages
...and commencing : — "Arriving at the Mount of St. Mary's, in the stony stage (a pulpit of stone), where I now stand, I have brought you some fine biscuits baked in the oven of charity, and carefully conserved for the chickens of the Church, the sparrows of the Spirit, and the sweet swallows...
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The Spell of England

Julia de Wolf Addison - England - 1922 - 564 pages
...night by way of a revelation. A flowery sermon is reported by Richard Taverner, in which he said, " I have brought you some fine biscuits baked in the...carefully conserved for the chickens of the church, for the sparrows of the spirit, and the sweet swallows of salvation ! ' ' This was in the days when...
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How We Got Our Bible

John Paterson Smyth - Bible - 1912 - 184 pages
...his sword by his side, beginning with these words, " Arriving at Mount St. Mary's in the stony age where I now stand, I have brought you some fine biscuits baked in the oven of charity and carefully conserved for the chickens of the Church, the sparrows of the Spirit, the sweet swallows...
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Shakespeare's England: An Account of the Life & Manners of His Age, Volume 1

Sir Sidney Lee, Charles Talbut Onions - Anniversaries - 1916 - 724 pages
...the old stone pulpit, ' out of pure charity ' preached a lay sermon beginning with these remarkable words : — Arriving at the Mount of St. Mary's in...stony stage where I now stand, I have brought you some fyne bisketts baked in the oven of charitie, carefully conserved for the chickens of the Church, the...
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Essays and Reviews

Edgar Allan Poe, Gary Richard Thompson - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1984 - 1572 pages
...titles. Take for example the following — 'The Shop of the Spiritual Apothecary1 and 'Some fine Baskets after- ages, the evidence of the fulfilment of his word. No general meaning attached Sparrow of the Spirit, and the Sweet Swallows of Salvation."' Having admired this specimen of deep...
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Church, Monarch, and Bible in Sixteenth Century England: The Political ...

Roland H. Worth - Religion - 2000 - 212 pages
...Oxford in 1569 he began, "Arriving at the Mount of St. Mary's in the stony stage [a pulpit of stone], where I now stand, I have brought you some fine biscuits baked in the oven of charity, and carefully conserved for the chickens of the Church, the sparrows of the Spirit, and the sweet swallows...
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The Church Review and Ecclesiastical Register, Volume 55

1889 - 382 pages
...sermons of this worthy lay preacher and of his fondness for alliteration. Arriving at the Mount S. Mary's in the stony stage where I now stand, I have...chickens of the Church, the sparrows of the spirit, the sweet swallows of salvation. [Sketches of Ike Reformation. By John Oliver Willyams Haweis, Pickering,...
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