 | Eugene Stiles - Angels in art - 1996 - 100 pages
...twentyeight mansions of the moon. — WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE LIS«-inI6J, FROM HAUifF v! i H» They fof us, fight, they watch, and duly ward, And their bright...round about Us plant, And all for love, and nothing lor rewardI — EOMUNO SPENStR II an angel were to deliver a message to us — and such a being would... | |
 | Charles Wentworth Upham - History - 2000 - 808 pages
...imagery and sentiment: — "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...They for us fight they watch and duly ward, And their hright squadrons round about us plant. And all for love and nothing for reward; Oh! why should heavenly... | |
 | Benjamin Woolley - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 380 pages
...doth 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...nothing for reward. Oh, why should heavenly love to men have such regard? EDMUND SPENSER, faerie S>ueen XVII THE study was quiet, sealed behind a pair... | |
 | Florence Nightingale, Lynn McDonald - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 894 pages
..."and all for love and nothing for reward" (Book 2, canto 8, stanza 75). The passage refers to angels: 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 man have such regard? Philip Sidney Editor: Sir Philip Sidney (1554-86)... | |
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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... 
