 | Calendars - 1893 - 382 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...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... | |
 | Quotations - 1893 - 658 pages
...ministering servants ; it will rule not over, but in all heads, and bend the world to its will. Carlyle. hoary 0 , I .S/VKW, How one !s vexed with little things in this life ! The great evils one triumphs over bravely,... | |
 | James Hastings, Ann Wilson Hastings, Edward Hastings - Bible - 1893
...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 succour us who succour want ; How oft do they with golden pinions cleave The flitting skies like flying pursuivant,... | |
 | James Logie Robertson - English literature - 1894 - 394 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...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... | |
 | Abel S. Clark - American prose literature - 1894 - 228 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! How oft do they with golden pinions cleave The yielding skies like flying... | |
 | John Churton Collins - English drama - 1895 - 369 pages
...repassing between earth and heaven, passed, it was believed, and repassed still on their gracious errands. How oft do they their silver bowers leave, To come...militant ! They for us fight, they watch and duly guard, And their bright squadrous round about us plant. So sang Spenser, and what he sang he believed.... | |
 | Charles Gore - Theology, Doctrinal - 1895 - 109 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...pursuivant, Against foul fiends to aid us militant. For as they fight they watch and duly ward, And their bright squadrons round about us plant ; And all... | |
 | Church of England, Charles Latimer Marson - Bible - 1895 - 235 pages
...purpose. But how much of Christian teaching about the angels begins here 1 Spenser thus writes : " How oft do they their silver bowers leave, To come...The flitting skies, like flying pursuivant, Against fowle fiends to aid us militant 1 They for us fight, they watch and duly ward, And their bright squadrons... | |
 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - Christian art and symbolism - 1895 - 800 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...flitting skies, like flying pursuivant, Against foul Mends, to aid us militant ? They for us light, they watch, and dulv ward, And their bright squadrons... | |
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