| John Cumming - 1863 - 340 Seiten
...beneficence, and charity, and self-sacrifice. The poet has sung with some exaggeration a great truth:— " Were half the power that fills the world with terror,...human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals and forts." We thus write, not because we have any sympathy whatever with Messrs. Bright and Cobden... | |
| William Marjouram - 1863 - 418 Seiten
...with the NativesDescription of a Pa — Promoted Serjeant — Establishes an Institute. " Is it, 0 man, with such discordant noises, With such accursed...kindly voices, And jarrest the celestial harmonies? " CHAPTER VL DISTURBANCES. "A DARK and desolate day was breaking. Very shortly after I had removed... | |
| Joshua Rhodes Balme - 1863 - 308 Seiten
...has lost all control, and for the subjugation of whom he uses all his powers and resources in vain. " Is it, O man, with such discordant noises, With such...Thou drownest Nature's sweet and kindly voices, And j arrest the celestial harmonies ? Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half... | |
| George Stillman Hillard - 1863 - 390 Seiten
...musketry, the clashing blade ; And ever and anon, in tones of thunder, The diapason« of the cannonade. 8. Is it, O Man, with such discordant noises, With such...Thou drownest Nature's sweet and kindly voices, And j arrest the celestial harmonies ! 9. Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half... | |
| William Kidd - 1863 - 76 Seiten
...BBITISH SONG-BIBDS ;" ETC., AND EDITOB OF "KIDD'S JOUBNAL AND BOOK OF NATUBE." TWENTY-SIXTH THOUSAND. " Were half the power that fills the World with terror,...Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Giv*n to redeem the humau mind from Error, There were no need of arsenals nor forts." — LONGOLLI... | |
| 1864 - 590 Seiten
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| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1864 - 712 Seiten
...musketry, the clashing blade ; And ever and anon, in tones of thunder, The diapason of the cannonade. Is it, O man, with such discordant noises, With such...human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals nor forts : The warrior's name would be a name abhorred ! And every nation, that should lift again... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1864 - 464 Seiten
...blade ; And ever and anon, in tones of thunder, The diapason of the cannonade. VOL. I. 16 Is it, () man, with such discordant noises, With such accursed...Were half the wealth, bestowed on camps and courts, (liven to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals nor forts : The warrior's... | |
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