 | William Benson - Poetry - 1739 - 108 pages
...high, '* And underneath his Feet he caft *' The Darknefs of the Sky. " On Cherubs and on Cherubims " Full royally he rode, ** And on the Wings of mighty Winds *' Came flying all abroad. A Line of Chaucerfsju&novr offers itfelf to my Memory, which has almoft all the Arts of Poetry in it.... | |
 | Hymns, English - 1786 - 146 pages
...heav'ns moft high ; And underneath his feet He caft The darknefs of the fky. On cherubs and on cherubim Full royally he rode ; And on the wings of mighty winds Came flying all abroad. Ancafter. • J. HE fpacious firmament on high, With all the wide expanfe of fky, And fpangled heav'ns,... | |
 | George Keate - Margate (England) - 1790 - 388 pages
...heavens high, And underneath His feet He cast The darkness of the sky. " On cherub and on cherubim Full royally He rode ; And on the wings of mighty winds Came flying all abroad." On sublime sounds we need not linger, further than to say that association has much to do with the... | |
 | Monthly literary register - 1841 - 1092 pages
...Heavens high, And underneath his feet he cast The darkness of the sky. On cherubs and on cherubims Full royally he rode, And on the wings of mighty winds Came flying all abroad." This passage, Kirke White adduces as " a brilliant, yet probably accidental exception to the general... | |
 | Joanna Southcott - Prophecies - 1813 - 618 pages
...And underneath his feet he cait The darkness of the sky : On cherubs and on cherubims s Full royalty he rode, And on the wings of mighty winds Came flying all abroad, &c. &c. &c." Then was sung by the company the civ.th Psalm, a few verses of which I shall give. " O... | |
 | George Richards - Hymns, English - 1802 - 370 pages
...underneath his feet he caft The darknefs of the fty. 2 On cherubs and on cherubims, Full royally ha rode : And. on the wings of mighty winds Came flying all abroad. 3 To God', our Benefactor, bring The tribute of your praife : Too fmall for an almighty King ; But... | |
 | Henry Kirke White - 1807 - 320 pages
...high, " And underneath his feet he cast " The darkness of the sky. " On cherubs and on cherubims " Full royally he rode, " And on the wings of mighty winds '« Came flying all abroad." Dryden honoured these verses with very high commendation, and, in the following lines of his Annus... | |
 | Henry Kirke White - 1807 - 318 pages
...high, " And underneath his feet he cast " The darkness of the sky. " On cherubs and on cherubims " Full royally he rode, " And on the wings of mighty winds " Came flying all abroad." Dryden honoured these verses with very high com. mendation, and, in the following lines of his Annus... | |
 | Collection - 1807 - 650 pages
...heav'ns most high ; And underneath his feet he cast The darkness of the sky. 2 On cherub and on cherubim Full royally he rode ; And on the wings of mighty winds Came flying all abroad. 3 He sat serene upon the floods, Their fury to restrain; And he, as sov' reign Lord and King, For evermore... | |
 | George Gregory - Books and reading - 1809 - 384 pages
...following translation by Sternhold and Hopkins, than of any poem in the English language On cherub and on seraphim Full royally he rode, And on the wings of mighty winds, Came flying all abroad. If I am any judge of the false sublime, I find it in the two first of these lines, where a truly grand... | |
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THE Lord descended from above, And bowed the heavens most high; And underneath his feet he cast The darkness of the sky. 2 On cherub and on cherubim, Full royally, he rode ; And on the wings of mighty winds Came flying all abroad. 
