 | George Richards - Hymns, English - 1808 - 400 pages
...above And bow'd the heav'ns most high I' And underneath his feet he cast The darkness of the sky. 2 On cherubs and on cherubims, ' ' Full royally he rode : And on the wings of might winds Came flying all abroad. 3 To God, our Benefactor, bring The tribute of your praise : Too... | |
 | George Richards - Hymns, English - 1808 - 400 pages
...tree of life, my paradise. HYMN 371. CM J. HE Lord descended from above And bow'd the heav'ns most high ! And underneath his feet he cast The darkness of the sky. 2 On cherubs and on cherubim s, Full royally he rode : And on the wings of might winds Came flying... | |
 | George Gregory - Books and reading - 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, where a truly grand... | |
 | David Simpson - Apologetics - 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 have enjoyed... | |
 | David Simpson - 1810 - 422 pages
...famous stanza of STEHNHOLD and HOPKINS in the 18th Psalm: — " On Cherubs and on Cherubinis Fully royally he rode ; And on the wings of mighty winds Came flying all abroad:" that he used to profess, he had rather have been the author of it, than to have enjoyed the kingdom... | |
 | 1801 - 454 pages
...captivating verse neither preserves the true sense of the Psalmist, nor, indeed, any sense at all. On cherubs and on cherubims Full royally he rode, And on the wings of all* the winds, Came flying all abroad. This verse has been commended, arid even imitated, by the immortal... | |
 | William Bengo Collyer - Hymns - 1812 - 980 pages
...HYMN DCCXXVH. Tlie Majesty of God. STERNHOLD. HE Lord descended from above A.nd bow'd the 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... | |
 | Henry Kirke White - 1813 - 336 pages
...Leniter inclinat jussum fastigia cesium : " The Lord descended from above, " And bowed the heavens high, ; . " And underneath his feet he cast " The........ .. Dryden honoured these verses with very high commfinrlntionj and, in the following lines of his Annus Mirabilis, has apparently imitated them, in... | |
 | James Townley - Bible - 1813 - 230 pages
...Psalm, have been long and generally admired : The Lord descended from above, And bowde the heav'ns most high ; And underneath his feet he cast The darkness of the sky. On cherubs and on cherubim Full royally he rode ; And on the wings of mighty windes Came flying all abroad.' On the death... | |
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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. 
