| John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 830 pages
...war, or battle's sound, Was heard the world around : The idle spear and shield were high up hung ; then into hymns Burst lorth, and in celestiat measures mov'd, tho armed throng ; And kings sat stitl with awful eye, As if they surely knew their sovran Lord was... | |
| English poetry - 1844 - 110 pages
...manger lies ; Nature, in awe to him, Had doffd her gaudy trim, With her great Master so to sympathize. No war, or battle's sound, Was heard the world around : The idle spear and shield were high up hung, The hooked chariot stood Unstain'd with hostile blood ; The trumpet spake not to the armed... | |
| Protestant association - 1844 - 420 pages
...clouds dividing ; And waving wide her myrtle wand, She strikes a universal peace through sea and land. No war, or battle's sound, Was heard the world around : The idle spear and shield were high up hung ; The hooked chariot stood Unstained with hostile blood ; The trumpet spake not to the armed... | |
| Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...wide her myrtle wand. She strikes a universal peace through sea and land. No war or battle's Round, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders. up hung ; The hooked chariot stood Unstain'd with hostile blood ; The trumpet spake not to the armed... | |
| Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...ensucd after the battle of Actium, and the establishment of Augustus upon the throne of Rome. No war,1 or battle's sound Was heard the world around : The idle spear and shield were high up hung ; The hooked chariot stood Unstained with hostile blood ; The trumpet spake not to the armed... | |
| 1847 - 586 pages
...rest. The tumult of the nations had died into repose. Chariot and horse, spear and sword, were idle. " No war or battle's sound Was heard the world around...shield were high up-hung ; The hooked chariot stood Unstained with hostile blood ; The trumpet spake not to the armed throng ; And kings sat still with... | |
| Gardiner Spring - 1847 - 310 pages
...light His reign of peace on earth began." In the beautiful language of the greatest of English poets, " No war, or battle's sound Was heard the world around...shield were high uphung, The hooked chariot stood Unstained with hostile blood, The trumpet spake not to the armed throng, And kings sat still with awful... | |
| Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...clouds dividing ; And, waving wide her myrtle wand, She strikes a universal peace through sea and land. 1 ! \ G| T y GF9p sqҊI8 ip M xedv Q| d ]+ 5 5 1)" ? EHj jr h _ A0 4 H z3 up hung ; The hooked chariot stood Unstain'd with hostile blood ; The trumpet spake not to the armed... | |
| Half hours - 1847 - 616 pages
...dividing ; And, waving wide her myrtle wand, She strikes a universal peace through sea and land. Nor war or battle's sound Was heard the world around : The idle spear and shield were high up hung, The hooked chariot stood Unstain'd with hostile Wood, The trumpet spake not to the armed throng,... | |
| John Milton - 1847 - 604 pages
...clouds dividing ; And, waving wide her myrtle wand She strikes an universal peace, through sea & land. No war, or battle's sound, Was heard , the world around : The idle spear & shield were high up hung, The hooked chariot stood, Unstain'd with hostile blood, The trumpet spake... | |
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