 | William Benson - 1739 - 108 pages
...defcended from above, " And bow'd the Heavens high, '* And underneath his Feet he caft *' The Darknefs of the Sky. " On Cherubs and on Cherubims " Full royally...the Wings of mighty Winds *' Came flying all abroad. A Line of Chaucerfsju&novr offers itfelf to my Memory, which has almoft all the Arts of Poetry in it.... | |
 | 1786 - 146 pages
...heav'ns moft high ; And underneath his feet He caft The darknefs of the fky. On cherubs and on cherubim Full royally he rode ; And on the wings of mighty winds Came flying all abroad. Ancafter. • J. HE fpacious firmament on high, With all the wide expanfe of fky, And fpangled heav'ns,... | |
 | 1790 - 256 pages
...above, A. And bow'd the heav'ns high, And underneath his feet, he caft The darknefs of the flcy. 10. On cherubs and on cherubims, Full royally he rode, And on the wings of mighty winds, i Came flying all abroad. PSALM 19. 1. T^HE heav'ns declare thy glory, Lord, A Which that alone can... | |
 | George Keate - 1790 - 388 pages
...heavens high, And underneath His feet He cast The darkness of the sky. " On cherub and on cherubim Full royally He rode ; And on the wings of mighty winds Came flying all abroad." On sublime sounds we need not linger, further than to say that association has much to do with the... | |
 | Monthly literary register - 1841 - 1092 pages
...sublimity which Stemhold and Hopkins have in the following verses attained is universally allowed : — " The Lord descended from above, And bowed the Heavens...the wings of mighty winds Came flying all abroad." This passage, Kirke White adduces as " a brilliant, yet probably accidental exception to the general... | |
 | Joanna Southcott - 1813 - 618 pages
...And underneath his feet he cait The darkness of the sky : On cherubs and on cherubims s Full royalty he rode, And on the wings of mighty winds Came flying all abroad, &c. &c. &c." Then was sung by the company the civ.th Psalm, a few verses of which I shall give. " O... | |
 | Samuel Latham Mitchill - 1802 - 514 pages
...and fire!' Or, if you choose to have the spirit of these passages expressed in English metre — ' On cherubs, and on cherubims, ' Full royally he rode, ' And on the wings of all the wind* ' Came flying all abroad.' For this reason, probably, the origin and course of the winds,... | |
 | George Richards - 1802 - 370 pages
...underneath his feet he caft The darknefs of the fty. 2 On cherubs and on cherubims, Full royally ha rode : And. on the wings of mighty winds Came flying all abroad. 3 To God', our Benefactor, bring The tribute of your praife : Too fmall for an almighty King ; But... | |
 | 1894 - 576 pages
...from aboue, and bowed the heauens hie : And underneath his feete he cast the darknesse of the skie. On cherubs and on cherubims full royally he rode, And on the wings of all the winds came flying all abroade.' And what a grand hymn we have in ' The Old Hundredth,' ' All... | |
 | Henry Kirke White - 1807 - 318 pages
...subjoined. TJtque siiiim dominnm terra demittat in orbein Lcnitcr inclinat jussura fastigia coelum : 02 " The Lord descended from above, "And bowed the heavens...abroad." Dryden honoured these verses with very high com. mendation, and, in the following lines of his Annus Mirabilis, has apparently imitated them, in... | |
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THE Lord descended from above, And bowed the heavens most high; And underneath his feet he cast The darkness of the sky. 2 On cherub and on cherubim, Full royally, he rode ; And on the wings of mighty winds Came flying all abroad. 
