 Like mere abstractions, empty sounds to which We join no feeling and attach no form! As if the soldier died without a wound; As if the fibres of this godlike frame Were gored without a pang; as if the wretch, Who fell in battle, doing bloody deeds, Passed...  Advocate of Peace - Side 2731857Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1799 - 712 sider
...coulitrvrcen ! . . i . . < And what if all'avenging Providence, Strong and retributive, should make lis know The meaning of our words, force us to feel The desolation and the agony Of our fierce doings ?—' There is so much truth, with so much serious, pointed, and suitable exhortation, in these lines,... | |
 | 1799 - 614 sider
...wretch, Who fell in battle doing bloody deeds, Pass'd off to heaven, translated and not kill'd ; As tho' he had no wife to pine for him, No God to judge him ! — Therefore evil day» Are coming un us, О my courjtrymen ! And what if all-avenging Providence, Strong and retributive,... | |
 | 1799 - 614 sider
...Who fell in battle doing bloody deeds, Pafs'd off to heaven, tranflatcd and not kill'd; • As tho' he had no wife to pine for him, No God to judge him!—therefore evil days v Are coming on us, O my countrymen ! And what if all avenging 1'rovidencf,... | |
 | 1812 - 650 sider
...wretch, Who fell in battle doing bloody deeds, Pass'd off to Heaven, translated and not kill'd; As tho' he had no wife to pine for him, No God to judge him ! — Therefore evil days, 230 And what if all-avenging Providence, Strong and retributive, should make us know The meaning of... | |
 | 1812 - 664 sider
...wretch, Who fell in battle doing bloody deeds, Pass'd off to Heaven, translated and not kill'd ; As tin.' he had no wife to pine for him, No God to judge him ! — Therefore evil days 230 And what if all-avenging Providence, Strong and retributive, should make us know The meaning of... | |
 | 1812 - 654 sider
...Who fell in battle doing bloody deeds, Pass'd off to Heaven, translated and not kill'd ; As tho' lie had no wife to pine for him, No God to judge him ! — Therefore evil day* 230 And what if nil-avenging Providence, Strong and retributive, should make us know The meaning... | |
 | 1812 - 656 sider
...fell in battle doing bloody deeds, Pass'd off to Heaven, translated and not kill'd; As tho' he had ho wife to pine for him, No God to judge him ! — Therefore evil day* 2S0 And what if all-avenging Providence, Strong and retributive, should make us know The meaning... | |
 | 1842 - 634 sider
...wretch, Who fell in battle, doing bloody deeds, Pass'd off to heaven, translated, and not kill'd: — As though he had no wife to pine for him, No God to judge him ! • But these days of triumph were days of gloom at Braybush. Richard Ffawkenor had fallen in this... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1817 - 330 sider
...wretch, Who fell in battle, doing bloody deeds, Pass'd off to Heaven, translated and not kill'd; — As though he had no wife to pine for him, No God to...The desolation and the agony Of our fierce doings ? Spare us yet awhile, Father and God ! Oh ! spare us yet awhile ! Oh ! let not English women drag... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1819 - 488 sider
...pang; as if the wretch Who fell in battle, doing bloody deeds, Pass'd off to heaven, translated, and not killed ;— As though he had no wife to pine for...The desolation and the agony Of our fierce doings! I have told, O Britons! O my brethren! I have told Most bitter truth, but without bitterness. Nor deem... | |
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