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" O th' exceeding grace Of highest God ! that loves his creatures so, And 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... "
A cyclopædia of poetical quotations, arranged by H.G. Adams - Page 40
by Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 733 pages
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A Book of Remembrance, Being Lyrical Selections for Everyday in the Year

Elizabeth Godfrey - Calendars - 1908 - 460 pages
...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...flitting skies, like flying pursuivant, Against foul fiend to aid us militant! They for us fight, they watch and duly ward, And their bright squadrons round...
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The Catholic Centenary, 1808-1908: As a Newspaper Man Saw it

Augustin Francis McNally - 1908 - 250 pages
...serve His wicked foe! " 'How oft do they their silver bowers leave And come to succor us that succor want! How oft do they with golden pinions cleave The...foul fiends to aid us militant! They for us fight and watch and duly ward, And their bright squadrons round about us plant And all for love and nothing...
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The Faery Queene, Volume 2

Edmund Spenser - Knights and knighthood - 1910 - 320 pages
...embrace, That blessed angels he sends to and fro, To serve to wicked man, to serve his wicked foe. 2 How oft do they their silver bowers leave To come...us, that succour want, How oft do they with golden pineons cleave The flitting skyes, like flying pursuivant, Against foule feendes to aide us militant...
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Henry Hill Goodell: The Story of His Life, with Letters and a Few of His ...

Henry Hill Goodell, Calvin Stebbins - Agriculture - 1911 - 364 pages
...embrace, That blessed Angels he sends to and fro, To serve to wicked men, to serve his wicked foe. " How oft do they their silver bowers leave, To come...us that succour want! How oft do they with golden pineons cleave The flitting skyes, like flying Pursuivant, Against fowle feendes to ayd us militant!...
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The Vista of English Verse

English poetry - 1911 - 784 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 flitting skyes, like flying Pursuivant, Against f owle feendes to ayd us militant...
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Song, Sermon and Psalm

Sermons, American - 1913 - 224 pages
...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...love and nothing for reward. Oh, why should heavenly God to man have such regard? — Edmund Spenser. Another expression equally as comforting to the child...
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The Christian Year: Its Purpose and Its History, Volume 45; Volume 683

Walker Gwynne - Church year - 1915 - 170 pages
...The flitting skies like flying pursuivant, Against foul fiends to aid us militant! iS. Matt. iv. n They for us fight, they watch and duly ward, And their...us plant; And all for love, and nothing for reward — O why should heavenly God to men have such regard?" — Fairy Queen, II. viii. 2. It is related...
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The Modern Study of Literature: An Introduction to Literary Theory and ...

Richard Green Moulton - Literature - 1915 - 556 pages
...that succeeds opens with an angel hovering over him, and the general thought of angelic ministration: How oft do they their silver bowers leave To come...us that succour want! How oft do they with golden pineons cleave The flitting skyes, like flying Pursuivant, Against fowle feendes to aid us militant...
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The Christian Year: Its Purpose and Its History

Walker Gwynne - Church calendar - 1915 - 168 pages
...Edmund Spenser writes: "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...pursuivant, Against foul fiends to aid us militant! 1S. Matt. iv. n They for us fight, they watch and duly ward, And their bright squadrons round about...
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University of California Publications in Modern Philology, Volume 5

Literature - 1917 - 502 pages
...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...us, that succour want! How oft do they with golden pineons cleave The flitting skyes, like flying pursuivant, Against fowle feendes to ayd us militant!...
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