 | Collection - 1749 - 236 str.
...vexed. 3. My heart is difquieted within me : and the fear of death is fallen upon me. 6. Then I faid, O that I had wings like a dove : then would I flee away, and be , at reft. PSAL. CXVII. 1. S~\ Praife the LORD, all ye heathen : \^_S praife him all ye nations. 2. For... | |
 | John Brailsford - 1776 - 334 str.
...enter into, and dwell for; evermore in his prefence : and incline us to wifh with the pfalmift, *' Oh that I had wings like a dove ! " then would I flee away and be «' at reft." Such is the love that is due to God, and which naturally arifeth from the excellence of his... | |
 | John Collier (of High Wycombe.) - 1791 - 566 str.
...compofed in the very beginning of Abfaloms rebellion. The intended flight is beautifully exprefled, " O that I had wings like *' a dove, then would I flee away and be at reft." It is very pi&urefque and pathetic, and no one can read fome parts of it without the tendered... | |
 | Theocritus (of Syracuse) - 1792 - 242 str.
...Literally ' Beard aud^/fa/ nofe.' LINE 17. O were a humming bee's my happier lot, &c. Thus the Pfalmift : ' O that I had wings like a dove ! then would I flee away, and be at reft !' LINE 19. Through its fern and ivy creep. The ancient fhepherds had a notion that the fmell... | |
 | John Wesley - 1790 - 736 str.
...clear to manfions in the Ikies. I found a fecret longing to be with Jefus. The language of my heart "O that I had wings like a dove, then would I flee away and be at reft !" Not from a deflre to be away from fuffering fooner than it was the will of God ; but only from... | |
 | David Simpson - 1803 - 446 str.
...this foul of mine longs to b« gone ! Like a bird imprifoned in a cage, it longs to take its flight. O that I had wings like a dove, then would I flee away to the realm* of blifs, and be at reft forever! O that fome guardian angel might be commiilioned ;... | |
 | David Simpson - 1809 - 410 str.
...this soul of mine longs to be gone ! Like a bird imprisoned in a cage, it longs to take its flight. O that I had wings like a dove, then would I flee away to the realms of bliss, and be at rest for ever ! O that some guardian angel might be commissioned... | |
 | Church of England - 1810 - 466 str.
...flee away, and be at rest. 7 Lo, then would I get me away far off, and remain in the wilderness. 8 I would make haste to escape, because of the stormy wind and tempest. 9 Destroy their tongues, O Lord, and divide them ; for I have spied unrighteousness and strife in the... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 460 str.
...Indeed I envied the birds of the air; and often repeated the words of one in similar circumstances; " O that I had wings like a dove, then would I flee away and be at rest." But a second thought convinced me that I could not get the rest of the dove, even if I had her wings;... | |
 | 1811 - 550 str.
...cold salute of heartless pride, When, weakly sensitive, I've felt Within my wounded wind, I've cried " O that I had wings like a dove, Then would I flee away, and be at rot.1' Or when neglect with blighting power, Haiapathizcd the sinking heart, In that forlorn deserted... | |
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O that I had wings like a dove! for then would I flee away, and be at rest. 
