| Primitive Baptists - 1868 - 286 pages
...the exceeding grace Of Highest God, that loves his people so That blessed angels he sends to and fro. How oft do they their silver bowers leave, To come to succour us, that succour want ! How they with golden pinions, cleave The yielding skies, like flying pursuivant, Against foul fiends, to... | |
| 1842 - 514 pages
...of him who, under the guise of a tale of Faerie, wrote the noblest allegory in our language,) — " How oft do they their silver bowers leave To come...pursuivant, Against foul fiends to aid us militant ! "* To the imagination thus perfected and ennobled, no object in nature will be without its hidden... | |
| English literature - 1842 - 500 pages
...of him who, under the guise of a tale of Faerie, wrote the noblest allegory in our language,)— " How oft do they their silver bowers leave To come...pursuivant, Against foul fiends to aid us militant! "* To the imagination thus perfected and ennobled, no object in nature will be without its hidden and... | |
| Dante Alighieri - 1842 - 450 pages
...all his works with 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...want ! How oft do they with golden pinions cleave * Lo inno che si canta nella Compieta. — Landino. V. BreviariumRomanum. The flitting skies, like... | |
| H. D. - 1843 - 438 pages
...all His works with 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...golden pinions cleave The flitting skies, like flying pursuivants Against fowle fiends to ayd us militant. They for us fight, they watch and dewly ward,... | |
| 1843 - 582 pages
...angels as ministering spirits to the good : — " How oft do they their silver bowers leave To conic to succour us that succour want ! How oft do they with golden pineons cleave The flitting skeys, like flying pursuivant, Against tbwle feends to ayd us militant... | |
| English poetry - 1844 - 110 pages
...all his workes with 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...oft do they with golden pinions cleave The flitting skyes, like flying pursuivant, Against fowle feendes to ayd us militant ! They for us fight, they watch... | |
| 1858
...the world of. angels lay open, has described them as unweariedly ministering to feeble men : — " How oft do they their silver bowers leave, To come...oft do they with golden pinions cleave The flitting skios, like flying pursuivant, Against foul fiends to aid us militant ! They for us fight, they watch... | |
| American literature - 1865 - 820 pages
...all his works with 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 come to succor us that succor want ! How oft do they with golden pinions cleave The flitting skies, like flying-... | |
| Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...all his workes with mercy doth embrace, That blessed angels he sends to and fro, To serve to3 wicked man, to serve his wicked foe ! How oft do they their...oft do they with golden pinions cleave The flitting skyes,4 like flying pursuivant,5 Against fowle feendes to ayd us militant ! 6 They for us fight, they... | |
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