 | William Benson - 1739 - 108 pages
...high, '* And underneath his Feet he caft *' The Darknefs of the Sky. " On Cherubs and on Cherubims " Full royally he rode, ** And on the Wings of mighty Winds *' Came flying all abroad. A Line of Chaucerfsju&novr offers itfelf to my Memory, which has almoft all the... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Monthly literary register - 1841 - 1092 pages
...Heavens high, And underneath his feet he cast The darkness of the sky. On cherubs and on cherubims Full royally he rode, And on the wings of mighty winds Came flying all abroad." This passage, Kirke White adduces as " a brilliant, yet probably accidental exception... | |
 | Henry Kirke White - 1807 - 320 pages
...high, " And underneath his feet he cast " The darkness of the sky. " On cherubs and on cherubims " Full royally he rode, " And on the wings of mighty winds '« Came flying all abroad." Dryden honoured these verses with very high commendation, and, in the following... | |
 | Collection - 1807 - 650 pages
...heav'ns 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. 3 He sat serene upon the floods, Their fury to restrain; And he, as sov' reign Lord... | |
 | Henry Kirke White - 1807 - 318 pages
...high, " And underneath his feet he cast " The darkness of the sky. " On cherubs and on cherubims " Full royally he rode, " And on the wings of mighty winds " Came flying all abroad." Dryden honoured these verses with very high com. mendation, and, in the following... | |
 | George Gregory - 1809 - 384 pages
...translation by Sternhold and Hopkins, than of any poem in the English language On cherub and on seraphim Full royally he rode, And on the wings of mighty winds, Came flying all abroad. If I am any judge of the false sublime, I find it in the two first of these lines,... | |
 | David Simpson - 1809 - 410 pages
...delighted with that stanza of Sternhold and Hopkins in the 1 8th psalm : 4' On Cherub and on Cherubim Full royally he rode ; And on the wings of mighty winds Came flying alt abroad:" — that he used to profess, -he had rather have been the author of it, than to... | |
 | William Bengo Collyer - 1812 - 980 pages
...heavens most high ; And underneath his feet he cast The darkness of the sky. 2 On cherub and on seraphim Full royally he rode ; And on the wings of mighty winds, Came flying all abroad. 3 He sat serene upon the floods, Their fury to restrain ; And he, as sovereign Lord... | |
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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. 
