 Though yet unsung, as deem'd, perhaps, too bold ? Angels are men of a superior kind ; Angels are men in lighter habit clad, High o'er celestial mountains wing'd in flight ; And men are angels, loaded for an hour, Who wade this miry vale, and climb with...  The Works of the English Poets: Young - Page 80by Samuel Johnson - 1779Full view - About this book
 | Edward Young - 1866 - 574 pages
...superior kind ; Angels are men in lighter habit clad, High o'er celestial mountains wing'd in flight ; And men are angels, loaded for an hour, Who wade this miry vale, and climb with pain, And slipp'ry step, the bottom of the steep. Angels their failings, mortals have their praise ; While here,... | |
 | 1866 - 424 pages
...Angels are men in lighter habit clad, High o'er celestial mountains wing'd in flight; .. . And men an; angels, loaded for an hour, Who wade this miry vale, and climb with pain, And slipp'ry step, the bottom of the steep. Angels their failings, mortals have their praise ; While here,... | |
 | English poetry - 1873 - 390 pages
...superior kind ; Angels are men in lighter habit clad, High o'er celestial mountains winged in flight ; And men are angels, loaded for an hour, Who wade this miry vale, and climb with pain And slippery step the bottom of the steep. Nor are our brothers thoughtless of their kin Yet absent ; but... | |
 | John Hyde - 1875 - 352 pages
...superior kind ; Angels are men in lighter habit clad, High o'er celestial mountains winged in flight ; And men are angels loaded for an hour, Who wade this miry vale, and climb, with pain And slippery step, the bottom of the steep. Angels their failings, mortals have their praise : While here,... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1876 - 838 pages
...superior kind ; Angels are men in lighter habit clad. High o'er celestial mountains wing'd in flight, th avarice and convulsions, grasping hard ) Grasping at air! for what has Earth beside' slippery step, the bottom of the sleep. Angels their failings, mortals have their praise; While here,... | |
 | 1880 - 658 pages
...glorious truth to sing? Angels are men of a superior kind ; Angels are men in lighter habit clad : And men are angels, loaded for an hour, Who wade this miry vale, and climb with pain And slippery step the bottom of the steep : Yet summoned to the glorious standard soon, Which flames eternal... | |
 | John Doughty - 1882 - 214 pages
...superior kind ; Angels are men in lighter habit clad, High o'er celestial mountains winged in flight; And men are angels loaded for an hour, Who wade this miry vale, and climb, with pain And slippery step, the bottom of the steep." — Young. The idea that heaven was formed from a race of... | |
 | John Presland - 1883 - 456 pages
...glorious truth to sing? Angels are men of a superior kind ; Angels are men in lighter habit clad : And men are angels, loaded for an hour, Who wade this miry vale, and climb with pain And slippery step the bottom of the steep : Yet summoned to the glorious standard soon, Which flames eternal... | |
 | lady Margaret Stewart Simpson - 1896 - 108 pages
...perhaps a year. Angels are men in lighter habit clad, High o'er celestial mountains wing'd in flight ; And men are angels, loaded for an hour, Who wade this miry vale, and climb with pain And slippery step, the bottom of the steep." CHAPTER II THE ASCENT BEGUN "The situation that has not its... | |
 | Henry Donald Maurice Spence-Jones - 1897 - 458 pages
...superior kind ; Angels are men in lighter habit clad, High o'er celestial mountains winged in flight, And men are angels loaded for an hour. Who wade this miry vale, and climb with pain And slippery step the bottom of the steep." Why may not this be true? For there is no being higher in nature... | |
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