Were half the power, that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts: The warrior's name would be a name abhorred! Educational Foundations - Page 1401907Full view - About this book
| 1842 - 612 pages
...the power that fills the world with terror, — Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and sports, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals and forts. Down the dark future, through long generations, The echoing sounds grow fainter, and then cease; And... | |
| Naval art and science - 1872 - 1118 pages
...magnanimously forgiven. THE NAUTICAL MAGAZINE. NEW SERIES. DECEMBER, 1872. THE GENEVA ARBITRATION. Were half the power that fills the world with terror,...redeem the human mind from error, There were no need for arsenals and forts.* THE passions of mankind are, perhaps, as fierce as ever they were, but they... | |
| 1844 - 784 pages
...half the power, that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth, bestowed on camps and court?, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals nor forts. The warrior's name would be a name abhorred ! And ever)' nation that should lift again Its... | |
| American literature - 1846 - 308 pages
...With such accursed instruments as these, Thou drownest Nature's sweet and kindly voices, And jarreHt the celestial harmonies '. Were half the power, that...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... | |
| American literature - 1846 - 302 pages
...instruments as these, Thou drowneet Nature's sweet and kindly voices, And jarrest the celestial harmonies 1 Were half the power, that fills the world with terror....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 - Literary Criticism - 1846 - 178 pages
...voices, And jarrest the celestial harmonies ? Were half the power, that fills the world with terror, 9 Were half the wealth, bestowed on camps and courts,...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... | |
| Presbyterian Church of England - 1857
...musketry, the clashing blade, And ever and anon, in tones of thunder, The diapason of the cannonade. It is, O man, with such discordant noises — With such accursed...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 Its... | |
| John Frost - Generals - 1847 - 414 pages
...of San Juan de Ulloa, I could not but think of Longfellow's beautiful and truthful lines. ' Is it, 0 man, with such discordant noises, With such accursed...human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals nor forts. The following incidents concerning the battle of Sierra Gordoare taken from the New Orleans... | |
| John Frost - Generals - 1847 - 422 pages
...instruments as these, Thou drownest Nature's sweet and kindly voices, And jarrest the celestial harmonics * Were half the power that fills the world with terror,...human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals nor forts. The following incidents concerning the battle of Sierra Gordo are taken from the New Orleans... | |
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