 | William Ladd - 1827 - 316 pages
...: " They err who count it glorious to subdue By conquest far ar.d wide, to overrun Lar^e countiies, and in field great battles win. Great cities by assault...spoil, burn, slaughter, and enslave Peaceable nations, neighboring, or remote, Made captive, vet deserving freedom more Than those their conquerors ; who... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - 1827 - 494 pages
...who count it glorious, to subdue By conquest far and wide, to overrun Large countries, and in fields great battles win. Great cities by assault ; what...spoil, burn, slaughter and enslave Peaceable nations, neighboring or remote, Made captive, yet deserving freedom more Than those their conquerors, who leave... | |
 | William Ladd - 1827 - 298 pages
...glorious to subdue By conquest far acd wide. to overran Large countries, and in field great battles \viu, Great cities by assault ; what do these worthies But...spoil, burn. slaughter, and enslave Peaceable nations. neighboring, or remete, Made captive. yet deserving freedom more Than those their conquerors ; who... | |
 | Thomas Burton - 1828 - 620 pages
...to the Saviour, when Satan would urge the persevering pursuit of martial fame ? (P. R^ iii. 71.) " They err, who count it glorious to subdue By conquest...wide, to over-run Large countries, and in field great battels win. But if there be in glory aught of good, It may by means far different be attain'd Without... | |
 | Thomas Burton - 1828 - 618 pages
...ascribes to the Saviour, when Satan would urge the persevering pursuit of martial fame ? (PR iii. 71.) " They err, who count it glorious to subdue By conquest...wide, to over-run Large countries, and in field great battels win. But if there be in glory aught of good, It may by means far different be attain'd Without... | |
 | Charles Caleb Colton - 1828 - 250 pages
...desolate wilderness ;" and iliatpoet who drank deepest of the sacred stream, lias the following lines : " They err who count it glorious to subdue By conquest far and wide, to overrun planned by amhition, executed by violence, and consummated by devastation ? the means, are the sacrifice... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 824 pages
...strength more nimbly, or become the delivery more gracefully, or employ all more virtuously. Sidney. They err, who count it glorious to subdue By conquest...field great battles win, Great cities by assault. Milton' i Paradise Loit. The nine Their fainting foes to shameful flight compelled, And with resistless... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 512 pages
...strength more nimbly, or become the delivery more gracefully, or employ all more virtuously. Sidney. They err, who count it glorious to subdue By conquest far and wide, to owr-run Large countries, and in field great battles win, Great cities by assault. Milton's Paradise... | |
 | John Milton - 1829 - 426 pages
...what do these worthies, tut MU and sooil, hurn, slaughter, and euslavt* Peaceahle nations, neighh'ring or remote, Made captive, yet deserving freedom more Than those their conquerors, who leave hehind Nothing hut ruin wheresoe'er they rove, And all the flourishing works of peace destroy ^ Then... | |
 | Royal Robbins - 1831 - 750 pages
...instances, the destruction of those works, the remains of which the world lias since been proud to own. They err, who count it glorious to subdue By conquest...countries, and in field great battles win, Great cities by assaults : what do these worthies, But rob and spoil, burn, slaughter and enslave Peaceable nations.... | |
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They err, who count it glorious to subdue By conquest far and wide, to overrun Large countries, and in field great battles win, Great cities by assault: what do these worthies, But rob, and spoil, burn, slaughter, and enslave Peaceable nations... 
