| Thomas Vincent Fosbery - Christian poetry - 1857 - 436 pages
...mercy doth embrace, That blessed angels He sends to and fro To serve to wicked man, to serve His wicked foe ! How oft do they their silver bowers leave, To...us that succour want ; How oft do they with golden pineons cleave The flitting Skyes, like flying pursuivant, Against foule feendes to aid us militant... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1848 - 786 pages
...embrace, That blessed Angels he sends to and fro, To serve to wicked man, to serve his wicked foe ! II. How oft do they their silver bowers leave To come...us that succour want! How oft do they with golden pineons cleave The flitting8 skyes, like flying pursuivant, Against fowle fecndes to ayd us militant!... | |
| John Mulligan - English language - 1857 - 608 pages
...Byron's Childe Harold. The same rules apply to the measures and pauses as to other iambic pentameters. " How oft do they their silver bowers leave To come...us that succour want! How oft do they with golden pincons cleave The flitting skyes, like flying pursuiron^, Against fowle fecndes to ayd us militant!... | |
| JOHN GRAY - 1857 - 784 pages
...a simile, allegory, irony, hyperbole, apostrophe ? — Give illustrations, original or quoted. 4. " How oft do they their silver bowers leave, To come to succour us that succour want I And all for love, and nothing for reward : Oh ! why should heavenly God to man have such regard !"... | |
| William Hunter (rector of Ayr acad.) - 1857 - 130 pages
...heat, Exhales the soul sublime, to seek her native seat. CHAUCER, AD 140.0. How oft do they (angels) their silver bowers leave, To come to succour us, that succour want l How oft do they with golden pinions cleave The Hitting skies, like flying pursuivant, Against fowle... | |
| Oswald Jackson - 1858 - 300 pages
...doth embrace, That blessed angels he sends to and fro, To serve to t wicked man, to serve his wicked foe ! How oft do they their silver bowers leave, To...oft do they, with golden pinions cleave The flitting skyes,J like flying pursuivant.§ Against fowle feendes to ayd us militant ! They fight for us, they... | |
| Aubrey Thomas De Vere - 1858 - 298 pages
...doth embrace, That blessed angels he sends to and fro, To serve to wicked man, to serve his wicked foe ! How oft do they their silver bowers leave To come to succour us that succour want ! ' giving light to. " passion. How oft do they with golden pinions cleave The flitting skies, like... | |
| Elizabeth Stone - Burial - 1858 - 450 pages
...observed in order that the people may know what benefits are derived from the ministry of angels.1 For oft do they their silver bowers leave To come to succour us, that succour want ; And oft do they with golden pinions cleave The flitting skies, like flying poursuivant Against foul... | |
| Methodist Church - 1858 - 688 pages
...doth embrace, That blessed angels he sends to and fro, To serve to wicked man, to serve his wicked foe ! " How oft do they their silver bowers leave To come to succor us that succor want ! FOURTH SERIES, VOL. X.— 15 How oft do they with golden pinions cleave... | |
| 1893 - 226 pages
...with mercy doth embrace, That blessed angels He sends to and fro, To serve to wicked man, to serve His foe ! How oft do they their silver bowers leave To...pursuivant, Against foul fiends to aid us militant ! . They ior us fight, they watch and duly ward, And their bright squadrons round about us plant ; And all for... | |
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