 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 arme'd throng; And kings sat still with awful eye, As if they surely...  The Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine - Page 2311873Full view - About this book
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1850 - 710 pages
...clouds dividing ; And, waving wide her myrtle wand, She strikes a universal peace through sea and land. eing done, She gave me for my pains a world of tighs...passing strange, Twos pitiful, 'twas wondrous pitiful Ftill with awful eye, As if they surely knew their sov'reign lord was by. But peaceful was the night,... | |
 | 1850 - 298 pages
...the world at the time of Christ's nativity is thus beautifully alluded to in Milton's Hymn : — " No war or battle's sound Was heard the world around : The idle spear and shield were high up hung ; Unstain'd with hostile blood The hooked chariot stood ; The trumpet spake not to the armed throng... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 602 pages
...And, waving wide her myrtle wand, She strikes a universal peace through sea and land. No war or battle sound, Was heard the world around : The idle spear...still with awful eye, As if they surely knew their sov'reign lord was by. But peaceful was the night, Wherein the Prince of Light His reign of peace on... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 594 pages
...And, waving wide her myrtle wand, She strikes a universal peace through sea and land. No war or battle sound, Was heard the world around: The idle spear...still with awful eye, As if they surely knew their so v 'reign lord was by. But peaceful was the night, Wherein the Prince of Light His reign of peace... | |
 | Cyrus R. Edmonds - 1851 - 272 pages
...there reigns a spirit of silence which is charmingly appropriate, and irresistibly impressive : — No war, or battle's sound, Was heard the world around : The idle spear and shield were high uphung ; The hooked chariot stood Unstain'd with hostile blood ; The trumpet spake not to the armed... | |
 | John Milton - 1851 - 508 pages
...wide her mirtle wand, 51 She ftrikes a univerfal Peace through Sea and Land. 4No War, or Battels found Was heard the World around The idle Spear and Shield were high up hung, The hooked Chariot ftood Unftain'd with hoftile blood, The Trumpet fpake not to the armed throng, And Kings fate ftill... | |
 | John Milton - Authors, English - 1851 - 428 pages
...in 1629, when he was in his twenty-first fear, probably as a eollege exereise. Mark this stansa: — No war, or battle's sound, Was heard the world around ; The idle spear and shield were high uphung ; The hooked ehariot stood Cnstain'd with human blood ; The trumpet spake not to the armed throng... | |
 | Alfred Bate Richards - English essays - 1851 - 288 pages
...paramour." 209 Is not the following a noble verse ? Would it were true of these days ! — "No war, nor 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... | |
 | Bevelled edge boards (Binding) - 1851 - 216 pages
...a universal peace through sea and land. No war, or battle's sound, Was heard the world around : 07 The idle spear and shield were high up hung ; The hooked chariot, stood Unstained with hostile hlood ; The trumpet spake not to the armed throng ; And kings sat still with... | |
 | Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright - Eretz Israel - 1851 - 308 pages
...until the Saviour's Advent. Then indeed " No war, or battle's sound Was heard the world around : v The idle spear and 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 awful... | |
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