 | George Willson - Elocution - 1840 - 298 pages
...serve his wicked foe. 2 How oft do they their silver bovvers leave, To come to succor us, that succor want ! How oft do they with golden pinions, cleave...and nothing for reward : Oh ! why should heavenly God to man have such regard ' LESSON LXXXII. Change not Reform. — From a Speech in the Virginia Convention.... | |
 | Gems - 1841 - 624 pages
...blessed angels He sends to and fro To serve to wicked men, to serve his wicked foe! 15 Proof. I- _ How oft do they their silver bowers leave To come...love, and nothing for reward : Oh! why should heavenly God to man have such regard! WISDOM, TRUE RICHES. — IN vain do men The heavens of their fortune's... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1858 - 690 pages
...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 The flitting...us plant; And all for love, and nothing for reward : O why should heavenly God to man have such regard P" Book I, Canto VIII, v. 1, 2. When we read these... | |
 | Patrick Welwood, John Anderson - Covenanters - 1841 - 334 pages
...also'writes one of our own poets — " How oft do they their silvery bowers leave, And come to succour us who succour want ! How oft do they with golden pinions...militant, They for us fight, they watch, and duly guard. And their bright squadrons all around us plant, And all for love, and nothing for reward." We... | |
 | Richard Hooker, Izaak Walton - Church of England - 1841 - 624 pages
...10. 36 Dan. vii. 10; Matt. xxvi. 53; Heb. xii. 22 ; Luke ii. 13. 37 Matt. vi. 10. M Matt, xviii. 10. How oft do they their silver bowers leave, ' To come...cleave ' The flitting skies, like flying pursuivant, 1 Against foul fiends to aid us militant ! ' They for us fight, they watch and duly ward, ' And their... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1825 - 656 pages
...embrace, That blessed angels he sends to and fro, To serve to wicked man — to serve his cruel foe. How oft do they their silver bowers leave To come...— and nothing for reward; Oh, why should heavenly God for man have such regard? • •*••» May 2d. — This is my twenty-ninth birth-day, and tbus... | |
 | 1862 - 908 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...us plant, And all for love, and nothing for reward : O, wby should heavenly God to men have such regard ! THE CHILD'S EVENING THOUGHTS. THE MOON. As here... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1842 - 450 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...want ! How oft do they with golden pinions cleave * Lo inno che si canta nella Compieta. — Landino. V. BreviariumRomanum. The flitting skies, like... | |
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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... 
